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Monsters’ Cooper Koch Auditioned to Play Erik Menendez in 2 Other Projects
Cooper Koch auditioned for NBC's 'Law & Order' series about the Menendez case and a Lifetime movie before being cast as Erik in Netflix's 'Monsters'
Season 2 of the hit Netflix series debuted in October and chronicled Lyle Menéndez ( Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik’s (Koch) 1990 arrest for the murder of their parents, José ( Javier Bardem) and Kitty ( Chloë Sevigny). Taking inspiration from footage of the trial and subsequent interviews, Monsters mirrored key moments from the siblings’ lives before and after they were sentenced to life without parole for shooting their mother and father. Episodes 4 and 5 r eceived critical and fan praise for how it approached Erik and Lyle’s claims that they killed their parents in self-defense following years of alleged physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
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