LOS ANGELES– FX miniseries “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez,” executive produced by Ryan Murphy, wraps up with a dramatic finale.

The tenth and final episode follows Aaron Hernandez, who is on the verge of a second trial that holds unexpected promise, but Aaron struggles as his deepest secrets weigh heavily on his mind.

On the Red Carpet, he spoke with series stars Josh Rivera (Aaron Hernandez) and Jaylen Barron (Shayanna Jenkins) and series creator Stuart Zicherman about the season finale.

Zicherman explained the writing team’s approach.

“We listened to the prison records,” he said. “We wanted to explore, you know, this concept of life, does she have any regrets?”

He continued, “I think when you have regrets, everything comes up in front of you, you know, everything has been a problem. It all comes to the surface. And we tried to kind of do something similar, boil it all back to the boil.”

As Aaron continues his life in prison, the series explores the factors that influenced his story, including his posthumous diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated head trauma.

Rivera explained the role CTE played in Hernandez’s story.

“We’ve seen that all of these things are precursors to what’s going on in your brain, especially chemically, and we’re kind of at the endgame of what that looks like,” he explained.

When it came to playing the role, Rivera did research by watching videos and trying to understand how Hernandez’s brain made decisions.

“People may assume they have CTE. It may be possible, but it’s not confirmed until postmortem… It gave me a real sense of what the fear is like to know something is wrong but have no idea what it is.” “Or you might suspect something’s going on, so there’s a real paranoia that comes with that, and it’s just a kind of aimless restlessness.”

He tried to approach his role with a certain level of humanity. “I really try to put humanity first… No one is born bad. Like, everyone has a story or a reason or some kind of context, which isn’t meant to explain anything or cover it up, but it’s there… He knows “You know, life’s not that binary, like good and bad, it’s not that cartoonish, you know, it’s complicated.”

Barron approached his character similarly, saying: “It’s hard not to connect with her (Shayanna). It’s hard not to connect with Aaron. And it’s hard not to connect with Odin.”

Watch the finale of “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” on Tuesday, November 12 at 10pm on FX and stream it on Hulu the next day.

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