Cooper Koch has developed a profound sense of care for the Menéndez brothers since telling their story on screen.
After portraying him in the Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story, the actor told Deadline at Saturday’s Academy Museum Gala that he was “super grateful” he got to meet Erik Menéndez in prison after the show’s debut last month on Netflix.
“Preparing to play him was, in a way, preparing to meet him at the same time,” he explained.
“Because in preparing to play him, I developed such a care and true — I just care so much for him.
And it was always planned to be that way, it was always one scene and one shot, and it didn’t really change.
Because he first shared the Menéndez brothers’ narrative on screen, Cooper Koch has grown to care deeply for them.
At this Saturday’s Academy Museum Gala, the actor, who played him in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story, told Deadline that he was “extremely thankful” that he was able to meet Erik Menéndez in prison following the show’s Netflix premiere last month.
“In a sense, getting ready to play him also meant getting ready to meet him,” he clarified. “I just care so much for him, because I developed such a care and true for him while I was getting ready to play him. He is a remarkable human being, and I believe him. That’s why meeting him after I played him was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, as well as incredibly fulfilling and wonderful. “.
Koch and fellow Murphy star Kim Kardashian visited Richard J. in San Diego County after Erik denounced the Ryan Murphy series as a “dishonest portrayal.”. They met with forty prisoners, including the Menéndez brothers, at the Donovan Correctional Facility.
A new hearing for the brothers is scheduled for November, and since then, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has stated that he does not “think they deserve to be in prison until they die.”. 26 with somewhat recent proof of the cruelty music industry executive José inflicted on his sons and other people.
Koch also discussed his first impression of Monsters’ fifth episode, which is a 35-minute long single shot in which Erik describes the abuse he and his brother Lyle allegedly endured from their mother Kitty Menéndez and father José before the brothers killed their parents in 1989.
Koch said, “I cried.”. “On the same day that I received the job offer, Ryan informed me that I would have that episode. There was only ever one scene and one shot, and nothing much changed—it was always meant to be that way. From the first time I read the script, not much had changed. “.
In line with the official Netflix synopsis, Monsters “examines the historical case that captured global attention, contributed to viewers’ current fixation with true crime, and consequently poses the question, ‘Who are the real monsters?'” to those viewers.
