![]() You mentioned the journalists that were involved in the process. ![]() I really have to give a lot of credit to Nery and Esther and Bob, who really built the relationship with him, and then worked with him to find out what would make him comfortable, and how he wanted to tell his story. We did everything we could to make him as comfortable as possible. Our crews were very small, the number people who he dealt with were very small, and when he told those heart-wrenching stories, the people in the room were highly limited. ![]() We really took a very small footprint in approaching this project. How did you make sure that he was comfortable throughout the process? It was obviously a very emotional process for Roy, as seen in the documentary. And I think that’s where the story really lives. The motivations and their trajectories and their journeys clearly are different, but I think what happened to them kind of binds them in a way together, it connects them. They were all abused as very young children. There’s a common denominator here, in that it doesn’t matter that the Menéndez brothers were from a family of wealth and privilege, and that Roy wasn’t. How did you go about putting these two stories side by side? But I think the most important part is that Roy wanted that to be part of his story.įor Roy Rosselló, he might have experienced sort of the same things that the brothers experienced, but they grew up in different circumstances. It seemed like a way to further a story that you hadn’t seen before. It’s also a new piece of information in a case that has dominated headlines on and off for 30 plus years in the U.S. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to do both. He really wants to help the Menéndez brothers - he feels like that is part of his journey, and part of his healing to do that. It was first and foremost led by Roy’s desire to tell both of those stories. What drew you to frame the documentary as a story about the Menéndez brothers and Menudo, even though it was focused so heavily on Roy Rosselló and the abuse he allegedly suffered from Edgardo Díaz? She says it was critical that they maintained a “fly on the wall” approach in filming, not wanting to change the trajectory of either Rosselló or the Menéndez brothers’ trials. When Rand and Ynclan brought the pitch to them, they were immediately certain they wanted to do it. She works with the development team to evaluate and decide on which projects to take on. The project is directed by Esther Reyes, and follows decades of work by reporters Bob Rand and Nery Ynclan.įlynn is the president of Asylum Entertainment Group, which oversees the Content Group. Throughout the series, Rosselló searches for people who can help support his claims against Díaz in court, while the Menéndez brothers speak to the series’ journalists over the phone from prison. ![]() ![]() It’s unclear which part of Lyle and Erik’s lives will be covered, or whether the new Menudo allegations are discussed in the show that told the story of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Season 1.Įxecutive producer Jodi Flynn spoke to Variety about working on carefully documenting Rosselló’s emotional journey of alleging sexual abuse at the hands of José and Díaz. The Menéndez brothers will soon be the center of another series: the upcoming second season of Netflix and Ryan Murphy’s “Monster,” which was announced earlier this week. “I remember taking one of the kids, saying he wanted to talk to them alone, and they went off into the house upstairs,” Erik said. In the new docuseries, the brothers says they recall seeing Menudo members often, sometimes during barbecues at their home or backstage at Menudo shows. It was a year later that Rosselló alleges he was drugged and raped by José Menéndez in the Menéndez family’s New Jersey home. Rosselló joined Menudo in 1983 when he was 13 years old, replacing 15-year-old Xavier Serbiá. While Díaz has denied all claims of abuse - and didn’t respond to the docuseries’ team’s requests for comment either - he couldn’t deny that most of the over 30 band members over the years were replaced when they turned 16. But by 1991, sexual abuse allegations against Díaz began to circulate, casting a shadow over Menudo’s fame. The band was the start of many artists’ careers, including Ricky Martín and Draco Rosa who joined the group in the 1980s. Menudo was created in 1977 by Edgardo Díaz and grew to be one of the most notable boy bands of all time, attracting crowds of screaming girls like young Latin Beatles. ![]()
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