‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Chloë Sevigny on ‘Monsters,’ Her First Emmy Nom and the Real Menendez Brothers Case

Chloë Sevigny, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, has been an “It” girl for more than 30 years. Back in 1994, when she was just 19 and a stylish club kid in New York who had not yet appeared in a movie, the New Yorker magazine profiled her as “the coolest girl in the world.” Since then, she has accumulated dozens of credits for films such as 1995’s Kids, 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and 2007’s Zodiac as well as TV shows including HBO’s Big Love (2006-2011).

In recent years, as Sevigny approached and then, last November, hit the age of 50, and as many of the actresses she came up alongside have faded from the scene, she has experienced something of a career resurgence. This has been thanks in no small part to Ryan Murphy, the prolific TV creator, who cast her in American Horror Story: Asylum (2012), American Horror Story: Hotel (2015-2016), Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024) and, most recently, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2025).

Last month, for her performance in Monsters as Kitty Menendez, a Beverly Hills housewife who, along with her husband, was murdered by her two sons, Sevigny received the first Emmy nomination of her career, in the category of best supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or TV movie.

Over the course of a conversation at the Hollywood Hills home of one of Sevigny’s friends, where she is currently staying while shooting a project in town, the actress reflected on the odds-defying way in which she first became a well-known person; the ways in which her Boys Don’t Cry Oscar nom did and didn’t impact the way the industry regarded her (and she regarded herself); how she wound up working with Murphy, and the unique challenges of playing Kitty Menendez in Monsters (which presents the murders from the perspective of different characters in different episodes); how she feels about the real Menendez brothers’ quest for parole; what her Emmy nominations means to her; plus much more.