'Monsters' Star Cooper Koch Criticizes Netflix's Menendez Doc for Leaving Info Out | THR News Video
Cooper Koch, who plays Erik Menendez in 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,' is sharing his reaction to the new Netflix documentary about the Menendez Brothers. The doc simply titled The Menendez Brothers was released after the scripted series. While appearing on Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked the actor about his thoughts on the doc.
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00:00Coopercotch, who plays Eric Menendez in Monsters, Delisle & Eric Menendez Story,
00:04is sharing his reaction to the new Netflix documentary about the Menendez brothers.
00:09The doc simply titled The Menendez Brothers was released after the scripted series.
00:13While appearing on Watch What Happens Live,
00:15host Andy Cohen asked the actor about his thoughts on the doc.
00:18I thought it was great. I thought they did a great job. I thought they left out a couple
00:22pieces of information that would have been great to have in there, which is the two pieces of new
00:26evidence that have come out, which is the letter that Eric wrote to his cousin Andy.
00:31Cotch went on to talk about the letter, which wasn't discovered until 2018,
00:35decades after the brothers' 1996 conviction in their second trial.
00:39He wrote a letter to his cousin Andy like six to eight months before the murders that were,
00:45that he was telling him about the abuses was still happening.
00:48Yes.
00:49The other piece of evidence referenced by Cotch involves a new witness.
00:52And then also the, a member of Menudo, Roy Rosello,
00:57came out about also having been sexually molested by Jose Menendez.
01:01Yeah.
01:02Jose was a top executive at RCA Records, the label where boy band Menudo was signed in the 1980s.
01:07The producers of the documentary told The Hollywood Reporter that they didn't include
01:11the new evidence in their feature because they were leaving that up to the attorneys
01:14currently fighting with the habeas petition.
01:16Producer Rebecca Evans said,
01:18When we were making the documentary, we felt like we're not here to litigate a case.
01:22We're not here to present evidence or new evidence in that way alongside the attorneys.
01:27Evans also said they left out the Menudo member's allegation because they, quote,
01:31really wanted to focus on the brothers.
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