The actor portraying Erik Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story said he had a “powerful” and “emotional” face-to-face prison visit with him, despite the convicted murderer brothers’ criticism of the show.
Cooper Koch, who plays the younger Menendez brother, told the Hollywood Reporter that he and Erik recognized each other almost immediately. “We walked in the gymnasium, and the first person that I saw was Erik.