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How Nathan Lane Navigated Playing His Friend Griffin Dunne’s Dad in ‘Monsters’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Nathan Lane plays the late real life journalists activist Dominic
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Speaker 2: Dunn in the new crime drama Monsters, based on the
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Speaker 2: infamous Menendez Brothers nineteen ninety six murder trial of their
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Speaker 2: own parents. It's already a sensitive story to tell, but
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Speaker 2: Nathan had a particularly personal connection to the role because
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Speaker 2: he's actually friends with Dominic's son, actor and writer Griffin Dunn,
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Speaker 2: and rather than ignore the awkwardness, Nathan opted to speak
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Speaker 2: about the role. He tells Variety, I asked Griffin, how
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Speaker 2: you'd like to see your father portrayed. He said he'd
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Speaker 2: like people to know what a passionate advocate he was
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Speaker 2: for victims and how that trial changed his life professionally
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Speaker 2: and personally. So when I started reading the script, I
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Speaker 2: thought he'd be very happy because that was a through
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Speaker 2: line for the entire character. That's Nathan Lane. I'm portraying
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Speaker 2: Dominic Dunn in Monsters, which is on Netflix.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's direct from Hollywood