‘Menendez Brothers’ Series Rising Star Cooper Koch Is Getting Awards Season Buzz

The power of not being on Instagram is that while Cooper Koch is the star of one of this year’s biggest TV hits, he’s largely shielded from the attention.  “Luckily, no,” he says, when asked if he’s had many fan interactions. “Unless you run into me at Erewhon.” The Los Angeles native stars as Erik Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” which tells the story of the Beverly Hills-based brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. The show debuted as the number-one series on Netflix worldwide and has led to renewed interest in the brothers’ case. (The case has been reopened, with a resentencing hearing set for December.) “Monsters” has been getting Golden Globes and Emmys buzz since its premiere in September, which Koch is taking in stride. Cooper Koch “That’s what people have said, but I’m sort of not really believing them. It’s something in this industry, people say things or talk a lot, and then you will get let down. You’ll audition for something and you’ll be in the last sort of mix of it and they’re like, ‘This part’s yours. You’ve got it. It’s going to happen.’ And then you don’t get

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