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‘Monsters’ Star Cooper Koch Breaks Down One-Take Scene As Erik Menéndez When He Reveals History Of Abuse: “Super Nerve-Wracking”


'Monsters' Star Cooper Koch Breaks Down One-Take Scene As Erik Menéndez When He Reveals History Of Abuse: "Super Nerve-Wracking"

Remarkably, Cooper Koch held back any emotion when Ryan Murphy first told him that he got the part as Erik Menéndezin Netflix’s Monsters. But when Murphy revealed that Koch would have an entire episode to himself that would involve 34 pages of dialogue and one continuous shot, that’s when the actor said he broke down in tears. Here, Koch — who’s previous experience includes small roles in Power Book II: Ghost and the 2019 TV Movie Less Than Zero — talks about what it was like to shoot the scene for the Michael Uppendahl-directed episode titled “The Hurt Man.”

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