Cooper Koch “listened” to Erik Menendez “Every Night” before going to bed to prepare the role “Monsters”
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- Cooper Koch was opened on the quantity of preparation he put to play Erik Menendez Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez In order to make the history of the infamous teenager
- Koch, 28, revealed that he was going so far as to listen to Erik “every night before going to bed” because he wanted to “get his voice and manners” for the role “because they all support more than he was sexually abused by his father”
- He wanted the public to “sympathize” with Erik, who was 18, when he and his brother Lyle, who were 21, killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989
Cooper Koch wanted his version of Erik Menendez to be as faithful to life as possible.
The 28 -year -old actor played the youngest of the two brothers Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik MenendezAnd he admitted how far he went to his preparation for the role in a assiet with Sam Nivola for Variety‘s Actors on actors.
“I listened to it every night before going to bed,” Koch said when the White lotus Star asked if he had watched “videos to try to identify the path [Erik] speak. “”
“I got it in the car when I was driving,” he continued Erik, 18 years old when he and his brother Lyle killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. “I really wanted to get his voice and manners, because they all support that he was sexually abused by his father.”
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“I know there are so many prospects, but I always wanted the public to sympathize with him,” he added.
Erik and Lyle continued to assert that their father has sexually mistreated them for years, which led them to kill him, himself, their mother, who would also have abuse.
From Monsters“Released in September, Koch was clearly passionate about the case and the voice of the brothers in his support for their renowned efforts.
“I just felt this crazy cosmic thing that looked like: ‘I have to play this role’,” he told Nivola, 21, to play Erik in the Ryan Murphy series. “And this immense empathy. There are all these strange parallels. We both went to Calabasas High School.”
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Shortly after the first of the show, Koch was able to visit Erik and Lyle in prison alongside Kim and Khloé Kardashian and their mother, Kris Jenner. He told people that it was an experience for which he was “so nervous”.
“I had told them about both, so I knew that we already had a camaraderie, and they knew where I was standing. I told them that I supported them and I thought them. I had the feeling that they were going to welcome me with open arms, but still as breathtaking to meet someone you listened to and that you are inspired.”
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He said there was “an immediate link” when he arrived at the Correctional Center of Richard J. Donovan in San Diego. “I was able to kiss them both, and I sat down next to Erik in this circle with all the other incarcerated people who told their stories, and they were both so nice. They are incredible people. ”
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Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez can be broadcast on Netflix.
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