Interviews With "Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story" Stars Cooper Koch & Chloë Sevigny

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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"Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" is the second season of the American biographical crime drama anthology television series Monster, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. The season centers on the 1989 parricides of José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny), who were killed by their sons, Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch). It uses the Rashomon effect as a narrative device by presenting key events through multiple perspectives and unreliable narrators, leaving the "truth" open to interpretation. The season achieved global commercial success, debuting as the number-one series on Netflix worldwide, the most-viewed streaming content on the Nielsen Streaming Chart, and the third most-watched Netflix series in the second half of 2024. At the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, it earned 11 nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Koch and Sevigny, respectively. Koch and Sevigny were both kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work and experiences on the limited series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to watch in full on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Giovanni Lago's interviews with the Emmy-nominated stars of Monsters, Delisle and Eric Menendez story, Cooper Koch, and Chloe Savini.
0:14.1	I'm going to need you to walk me through what happened.
0:18.6	Part of this process is the two of you reconnecting,
0:23.6	growing closer as brothers.
0:32.6	Eric and I killed our parents together, so... I'd say that makes us pretty close.
0:44.3	It's up to us now, right?
0:48.3	And they would be proud of us.
0:50.3	They would be proud of us.
0:52.3	I thought they're getting rid of them.
0:58.0	It's gonna make me feel better.
1:02.0	I'm having these nightmares.
1:05.0	You're not getting it. You don't fucking get it, Eric. We did it. We fucking did it.
1:12.6	Hold on, Matt. Did you sort of a girl cheese and tap water? Yeah. How many shrimp do you have?
1:21.6	Like an actual number. Hello. Hey. How are you doing today? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing great. I know
1:30.3	you're very busy. We'll get this going. I know you've got a million things you've got to do.
1:34.3	Honestly, I don't really. You're like, I'm doing today. This is it. Well, hello, everyone. I'm
1:41.3	Giovanni Lago from the Next Best Series podcast. And today, I'm joined by the star of monsters that lie on Eric Menendez's story, Cooper Koch.
1:49.8	Cooper, thank you. Thank you.
1:52.4	First, I just want to start. Congratulations on your first Emmy nomination. That's an incredible honor. I know some time has passed since the announcements went out.
2:01.1	Has it resonated?
2:03.0	Has it like finally settled in?
2:04.4	Are you just trying to keep your mind going?
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