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Awards Chatter

Chloë Sevigny - 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated indie darling reflects on her unusual path to prominence, the backstories of some of her more provocative projects (including 'Kids,' 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'The Brown Bunny') and why she has increasingly been drawn to TV projects (from 'Big Love' to numerous Ryan Murphy projects including his latest limited series, in which she plays the Menendez family's murdered matriarch). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 595 episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

0:12.4

Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a Golden Globe

0:17.3

and Spirit Award winner and Oscar Sag Critics Choice and Emmy Award nominee,

0:22.6

who has been described by the New York Times as one of her generation's finest character

0:26.7

actresses, as well as an art house queen, fashion muse, and icon. Chloe, 70.

0:33.7

During her 30-year career, 70 has starred in films directed by seemingly every

0:37.7

author of her era, including Woody Allen, David Fincher, Witt Stillman, Jim Jarmouche, Lars von

0:43.8

Trier, Kimberly Pierce, Harmony Corinne, Olivier Aceas, Werner Herzog, Andrew Hague, and Luca

0:49.6

Guadignino. And at a time before very many people who first established themselves in film were

0:55.8

choosing to work in TV, she did just that and helped to usher in a new golden age for the medium

1:01.8

via her work on HBO's Big Love, as well as a host of Ryan Murphy shows, including American

1:07.4

Horror Story Asylum, American Horror Story Hotel, Feud Capote v. The Swans,

1:13.0

and most recently, 2005's Monsters, the Lyle and Eric Menendez story, on which she played

1:19.7

Kitty Menendez, the wife of Jose and Mother of Lyle and Eric, and for which she recently

1:24.9

received the first Emmy nomination of her career,

1:28.0

in the category of best supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie.

1:32.5

Over the course of a conversation at the Hollywood Hills home of one of 70s friends,

1:37.2

where she is currently staying while shooting a project in town,

1:40.3

the 50-year-old and I discussed the odds-difying way in which she first became a well-known person.

1:45.8

The ways in which her best-supporting actress Oscar nomination for Boys Don't Cry

1:50.0

did and didn't impact the way the industry regarded her and she regarded herself.

1:55.9

How she wound up working on TV limited series with Ryan Murphy

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