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Cooper Koch, who plays Erik Menendez successful Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story connected Netflix, elaborate gathering him successful prison.
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Cooper Koch is sticking by his character.
The Monsters histrion precocious elaborate playing Erik Menendez and however it felt to conscionable the 53-year-old astatine the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility successful San Diego, Calif., pursuing the Oct. 7 merchandise of the Netflix series.
“Preparing to play him was, successful a way, preparing to conscionable him astatine the aforesaid time,” Cooper told Deadline. “Because successful preparing to play him, I developed specified a attraction and true—I conscionable attraction truthful overmuch for him.”
The histrion besides emphasized that helium advocates for Erik and Lyle Menendez’s broadside of their story. While the brothers are presently serving a beingness condemnation without the anticipation of parole for the 1989 murders of their parents José Menendez and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, the duo support they committed the acts retired of self-defense, arsenic they had been physically and sexually abused by their begetter passim their lives and are presently advocating for a resentencing.
“I judge him, I deliberation he’s an astonishing quality being,” Cooper continued of Erik. “And so, aft playing him, getting to conscionable him was truthful rewarding and peculiar and 1 of the astir astonishing experiences I deliberation I’ll ever person successful my life.”
And this isn’t the archetypal clip the 28-year-old has shown enactment for Erik and his older brother.
“I truly bash anticipation that they are capable to get paroled and person an astonishing remainder of their lives,” Cooper explained to Variety successful September. “They committed the transgression erstwhile they were 18 and 21 years aged and astatine the time, it was truly hard for radical to judge that male-on-male intersexual maltreatment could occur, particularly with begetter and son.”
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But contempt Cooper’s support, Erik is not precisely successful enactment of Cooper’s portrayal of him, nor of Nicholas Alexander Chavez playing Lyle successful Ryan Murphy’s mentation of events.
“It is bittersweet for maine to cognize that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our transgression person taken achy truths respective steps backward,” Erik said successful a connection shared by his woman Tammie Menendez to X, formerly Twitter, adding of Ryan. “How demoralizing to cognize that 1 antheral with powerfulness tin undermine decades of advancement successful shedding airy connected puerility trauma.”
The American Horror Story co-creator, however, does not consciousness Erik’s antagonistic feelings toward the Netflix amusement are warranted.
“The Menendez brothers should beryllium sending maine flowers,” Ryan told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “They haven't had truthful overmuch attraction successful 30 years. And it's gotten the attraction of not lone this country, but each implicit the world. There's an outpouring of involvement successful their lives and the case. I cognize for a information that galore radical person offered to assistance them due to the fact that of the involvement of my amusement and what we did."
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