the heart of the family's demise alex murdaugh.eam with a rich history in south carolina, his trial made headlines last year when he was convicted of murdering his wife and his son and stealing millions from his legal clients while blaming an addiction to painkillers for his crimes. join us now, bill pull nba who plays alex murdaugh. >> good to see you. >> you're kind of like i was with this trial which i didn't really know a ton about it and then i tuned in late and kind of couldn't get enough of it. so when you first heard about this role what were your impressions of this guy? >> yeah, i realized everybody else in the world in america knew about it. i think i, you know, i didn't know if i was going to do it. kind of had to be a fast decision. but my first thing was i don't know if i want. i don't know anything about it. then you start watching something and they've got body cam and dash cam and of course the courtroom scene. so much there. and then i realized -- but as i first started into it i was nauseous. i was nauseated. i t

the only surviving son of convicted double murderer and disgraced legal scion alex murdaugh fighting h suing netflix, warner brothers and other media companies for accusing him of being involved in the death of his former classmate, stephen smith. >> he had a big sense of humor. sort of like this all-american boy. >> reporter: in his lawsuit, murdaugh said documentaries like these for warner brothers -- >> i think every young person who is coming out, one of their greatest fears is that they will be the victim of a crime of violence. >> reporter: and this one from netflix -- >> listening to these interviews, it's pretty clear stephen's death is now intertwined with the murdaughs. >> reporter: including defamatory statements falsely claiming he murdered smith. the netflix series featuring a re-enactment of smith's death showing a young man with red hair carrying a baseball bat. >> i never had anything to do with his murder. >> reporter: murdaugh previously denying he had anything to do with smith's murder in a fox nation docu series. >> i mean, people perceive me as a murderer. >> repo