In a candid sit-down about Lifetime’s Monster in the Family: The Stacey Kananen Story , actor Brendan Taylor opens up about why he chased one of the toughest roles of his career, and how he protected his head and heart while filming it. What began as “an audition like any other” quickly became a calling: the material’s moral gray zones and painfully human choices hooked him. “I like these complex stories that make us ask questions about our own morality,” he says, noting how easily ordinary people can rationalize extraordinary actions based on what they’ve endured. That universality, “everyday kind of people, something that could happen in almost any society," is what pulled him in.

Because the film is rooted in real events, Brendan approached the part like a journalist and an empath. H

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