Nicholas Alexander Chavez took his role as Lyle Menendez in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story extremely seriously, and that included portraying several emotional scenes involving wigs and toupees.

When Nicholas Alexander Chavez began researching his role as Lyle Menéndez for Monsters, he paid special attention to the “mask” that Lyle’s dad Jose forced him to use when he began losing his hair.

The 25-year-old tells PEOPLE he was "trying to mentally prepare as best as I could" for 'Monsters' and 'Grotesquerie' to release within a week of each other