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‘Monsters’ Star Cooper Koch Read His One-Take Episode Script ‘Almost Every Day’ for Eight Months: ‘I Would Write Out All of the Words’


'Monsters' star Cooper Koch on his preparation process and lessons he learned playing Erik Menendez

In the episode, Erik sits in an interview room with his defense attorney Leslie Abramson, played by Ari Graynor, and details the abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents, Jose (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny). And I would do the same thing, of just reading those stories and memories that he recounts, and I just tried to get them as specific as possible so that when I went to go and tell them on the day that they would feel real and they would fuel me emotionally.” He also hoped the show gave audiences a deeper understanding of what happened with the Menendez Brothers: “If I in any way had anything to do with someone’s perception being changed, then I did my job.

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