Cooper Koch is coming clear about that nude scene in “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”
Koch, who portrays real-life convicted assassin Erik Menendez on the Netflix crime drama, confirmed on “Watch What Happens Live” that he’s, in actual fact, baring all in a much-buzzed-about bathe sequence within the collection’ third episode.
“Just to say, mine was not a prosthetic,” Koch advised host Andy Cohen throughout a dialogue of essentially the most iconic full-frontal nude scenes on movie.
After Cohen complimented him on his, um, look within the scene, the actor quipped: “Well-hung!”
Elsewhere in his “Watch What Happens Live” interview, Koch provided extra choose particulars concerning the scene.
“It’s not scary. I’d say it’s more uncomfortable at first,” he stated, when requested if he was nervous about showing nude on digital camera. “And it’s very cold, especially in the shower.”
“Monsters,” which premiered on Netflix final month and was co-created by Ryan Murphy, has turned out to be a breakout second for Koch. The collection additionally stars Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as José and Kitty Menendez, who in 1989 had been murdered by their sons Erik and Lyle Menendez, the latter of whom is portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
As is the case for a lot of of Murphy’s true crime initiatives, “Monsters” has stoked a good quantity of controversy. Nevertheless, it’s additionally helped reignite public curiosity within the Menendez brothers, who in 1996 had been convicted of their mother and father’ murders and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole.
Final week, Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascon confirmed he was reviewing proof that might give the 2 males a shot at freedom after 28 years behind bars. Amongst those that have advocated for the brothers to be launched is Kim Kardashian.
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“Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different,” she wrote in an essay revealed by NBC earlier this month, pointing to the boys’s well-documented claims they had been sexually and bodily abused by their mother and father as kids.
