{"id":260244,"date":"2024-09-19T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/5-things-about-the-actor-playing-erik-menendez-hollywood-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:14","slug":"5-things-about-the-actor-playing-erik-menendez-hollywood-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/5-things-about-the-actor-playing-erik-menendez-hollywood-life\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things About the Actor Playing Erik Menendez \u2013 Hollywood Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"entry-media edge-to-edge entry-media--lead-image\" aria-describedby=\"lead-image-credit\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper image-wrapper--widescreen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2172513526_042347-e1726775340308.jpeg?resize=384%2C216\" class=\"attachment-hl-384x216-tc size-hl-384x216-tc wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cooper Koch at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's &quot;Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story&quot;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2172513526_042347-e1726775340308.jpeg?resize=384%2C216 384w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2172513526_042347-e1726775340308.jpeg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2172513526_042347-e1726775340308.jpeg?resize=1536%2C864 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 670px\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption id=\"lead-image-credit\">Image Credit: FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- .entry-media --><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-2\"><strong>Cooper Koch<\/strong> is quickly rising to prominence thanks to his<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/menendez-brothers-movies-and-tv-shows-5322190\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> latest role<\/a> in Netflix\u2019s anthology series <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2024\/09\/19\/netflix-crime-series-based-on-lyle-and-erik-menendez-murder-case\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>Monsters: The Lyle an Erik Menendez Story<\/em><\/a>. The Los Angeles-born actor plays the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/who-are-the-menendez-brothers-facts-siblings-killers-2803932\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Erik Men\u00e9ndez<\/strong><\/a>, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/pics\/menendez-brothers-photos-lyle-erik-pics\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">two Men\u00e9ndez brothers<\/a> convicted of killing their parents in 1989. Cooper got into character by delving into Erik\u2019s personal life, which the Netflix star opened up about during a new interview. And since he\u2019s only been seen in a handful of projects, fans want to know more about Cooper aside from his impressive performance as Erik.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-3\"><strong>Hollywood Life<\/strong> has rounded up five facts about Cooper, below!<\/p>\n<h2>Cooper Plays Erik Menendez in \u2018Monsters\u2019<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">While speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/monsters-menendez-brothers-cooper-koch-nicholas-chavez-leslie-grossman-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>TheWrap<\/em><\/a> in an interview published in September 2024, Cooper explained how he managed to step into his character\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cI turned my trailer into Erik\u2019s room, so I had clothes everywhere, and I had pictures of him on the wall, pictures of me too,\u201d Cooper pointed out. \u201cI looked at videos of me when I was really young, and I watched how my parents treated me, which gave me a level of gratitude for my family and my parents. I listened to [Erik] and watched him religiously. And I had my music, I had all different kinds of journals, all different kinds of things to help me really feel like him and be him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe title=\"MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Official Trailer #1 | Netflix\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EaEllq5FLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>He Has a Twin Brother<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">Cooper has a twin brother named <strong>Payton Koch<\/strong>. Payton isn\u2019t an actor, but he works in the entertainment industry as a film editor. In fact, per his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2599405\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">IMDb<\/a> page, Payton was nominated for an Emmy Award. Among Payton\u2019s most notable credits as a series editor were for multiple episodes of<em> Only Murders in the Building<\/em> and <em>American Horror Story.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Cooper\u2019s Family Works in Entertainment<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Aside from his brother, Cooper comes from a family of entertainers. According to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2599408\/bio\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">IMDb<\/a> page, Cooper\u2019s father is <strong>Billy Koch<\/strong>, who has worked as a visual effects editor on multiple films, such as<em> Jerry Maguire<\/em> and <em>Space Jam<\/em>. His grandfather, <strong>Hawk Koch<\/strong>, is a movie producer and the previous President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild.<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">Cooper\u2019s great-grandfather, <strong>Howard W. Koch<\/strong>, worked as a producer and a director. Among his most notable credits include <em>The Manchurian Candidate<\/em> and<em> Airplane II: The Sequel. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>He Got His First Film Role in 2018<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\">Cooper landed his first gig in 2018 in the film <em>West 40s<\/em> and steadily earned more roles. His most famous credits include <em>They\/Them, Swallowed<\/em> and <em>Power Book II: Ghost<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Cooper Attended the Pace School of Performing Arts<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-10\">Although he grew up in Los Angeles County, Cooper moved to New York City, where he earned his BFA in Acting from the Pace School of Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/who-is-cooper-koch-5322254\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Image Credit: FilmMagic Cooper Koch is quickly rising to prominence thanks to his latest role in Netflix\u2019s anthology series Monsters: The Lyle an Erik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}