Lyle Menendez Actor Nicholas Alexander Chavez on His ‘Monsters’ Audition With Cooper Koch: ‘It Felt Electric Right Off the Bat’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Nicholas Alexander Chavez says his final callback audition to play Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” was not like others he had ever been on. “Usually when you go to a callback, there’s four or five other people there to play the part.
But it was just Cooper [Koch] and myself,” Chavez says, referencing his co-star who plays Erik Menendez. “And then Ryan [Murphy] strolled through, and we had no idea who was going to be there, so it completely took us by surprise.
They made sure that we felt comfortable. We went up there, we did the scenes. I think it felt electric right off the bat with Cooper.
Ryan called us two days later to let us know that he wasn’t going to make the show if he couldn’t make it with us.” Chavez says his preparation for the Netflix series included reading, watching and listening to everything he could about the siblings and their two trials.
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