Chavez stars alongside Cooper Koch in Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.”
Getting into the mind ofLyle Menendezis no simple task.
So how did he overcome the challenges of playing a real-life public figure?

Brad Culver, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, and Cooper Koch in ‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’.Miles Crist/Netflix
No, thats of course not true.
“I wasn’t familiar with anything,“Chavez said at the show’s September premiere.
“I actually had not heard of the Menendez Brothers.”

Nicholas Alexander Chavez at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.Dia Dipasupil/Getty
“I wasn’t even alive when this happened,” he said.

Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez in ‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’.Courtesy Netflix