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‘Monsters’ Stars Break Down Erik Menendez’s ‘Powerful,’ 33-Minute Single Take in Episode 5: ‘You Couldn’t Look Away’
'Monsters' star Cooper Koch explains how the Netflix approached the single-take Episode 5 of the Menendez Brothers series.
Titled “The Hurt Man,” the 33-minute installment plays out in a single take as Erik ( Cooper Koch) gives a detailed, emotional account of the childhood abuse that he suffered. Erik’s speech comes after he and his brother have been detained for the murder of their parents Jose and Kitty (Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny), during a conversation with his lawyer Leslie Abramson ( Ari Graynor). It’s a striking divergence for the series, bifurcating its nine-episode season with a conspicuously shorter episode that gives Erik an uninterrupted spotlight to articulate the darkness at the heart of the story — but also strands him from the support of his older brother, Lyle (Nicholas Chavez).
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