Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Nicholas Alexander Chavez Says Starring on the Ryan Murphy Shows Grotesquerie and Monsters Couldn’t Have Been More Different

Nicholas Alexander Chavez has starred on 2 Ryan Murphy shows... Grotesquerie and Monsters...but says the only similarity...is Murphy’s involvement.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Seacrest, Nicholas Alexander Chavez. Wild audience is as Lyle Menendez
in Monsters, Ryan Murphy's true crime drama based on the
Menendez Brothers murders, and he clearly impressed Murphy as well,
who went on to cast him again in his FX
horror mystery Grotescay, and although both shows fell under Murphy's
creative umbrella, Nicholas enjoyed how different the two projects felt,
telling the Hollywood Reporter, Monsters was about real world events,

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whereas Grotesquay was the brainchild of Ryan Murphy, where I
just got to play around in this completely imaginary space
that really has close to no rules. Whatever acting impulse
you feel is probably correct. It was cool to come
from a very defined Ryan Murphy sandbox then go into
almost a playground that could really be just anything. That's
Nicholas Alexander Chavez, who will be seen next in the

(00:47):
I Know What You Did last summer reboot that's in
theaters July eighteenth.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's Direct from Hollywood