Koch and co-star Nicholas Chavez discuss with IndieWIre their takeaways from playing two convicted killers and the mixed reaction to Ryan Murphy's latest true-crime tale.

The centerpiece of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's dramatization of the Menendez murders was filmed over two days, as Koch's Erik Menendez details the years of sexual, physical and mental abuse he claims drove him to patricide.

Cooper Koch said Erik Menendez intends to watch his one-take 'Monsters' episode titled 'The Hurt Man' despite slamming the series

The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story', tells PEOPLE he "was so nervous" before meeting the brothers with Kim Kardashian

"It was really, really powerful and emotional," says the actor who portrays the convicted murderer in the controversial Netflix series of the face-to-face meeting.

Remarkably, Cooper Koch held back any emotion when Ryan Murphy first told him that he got the part as Erik Menéndez in Netflix’s Monsters. But when Murphy revealed that Koch would have an entire episode to himself that would involve 34 pages of dialogue and one continuous shot,