Erik Menendez Actor Cooper Koch Hugged the Real Menendez Bros. During Prison Visit with Kim Kardashian, Says They Deserve a Retrial and Are ‘Upstanding Individuals’
variety.comCooper Koch says the first time he spoke to the real Erik Menendez was not the day he visited the real brothers in prison alongside Kim Kardashian.
The actor, who plays Erik in the series, tells Variety that he and the real Erik talked on the phone the night before “Monsters” premiered on Netflix. “I got to have a really good conversation with him and tell him that I believe him and I did everything I could as an actor to advocate for him and portray him as authentically as possible, and that I think the show does a really good job of representing him,” Koch told Variety. “We had a really nice conversation.
We talked about other things like I went to Calabasas High School, which is where he went when he first moved to California.
My father graduated Beverly Hills High School the year before Erik got there. We have all of these weird parallels.” A few days after the phone call, Erik slammed the series in a statement his wife posted on X.
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