Daughter of Real-Life ‘Iron Claw' Wrestler Slams A24 Film as ‘Heart-Wrenching' and ‘Inaccurate'
In a forthcoming episode of Investigation Discovery's docuseries 'Hollywood Demons,' which airs Monday, Lacey Von Erich, the daughter of Kerry Von Erich (played by Jeremy Allen White), said A24 left out some crucial details with its portrayal of her professional wrestler father.
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'My sister and I were not in the movie as my dad's children and he didn't have a wife or anything,' Lacy Von Erich said in a preview for 'Hollywood Demons' (via The Independent). 'And that was a really big part of my dad. So how he was portrayed in the movie is so inaccurate that it was heart-wrenching.'
'The Iron Claw' depicts Kerry Von Erich's motorcycle incident, which led to his foot amputation, his addiction to painkillers and ultimately his suicide. However, the film omits his wife, Catherine Murray, and his two daughters.
Zac Efron's real-life counterpart, Kevin Von Erich, the only surviving brother from the film, agreed with his niece's critique. He said that his brother was more family-oriented than presented in 'The Iron Claw.'
'Kerry in the movie was not a family man, but in real life he was,' he said.
Kevin Von Erich went on to say that he 'endorsed' the film, but Lacey Von Erich maintains that the family was not consulted before the release of the A24 drama.
Starring Efron, White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney and Holt McCallany, 'The Iron Claw' chronicles the story of the Von Erichs, a family of elite professional wrestlers whose history is plagued by tragedy.
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