Cooper Koch, the star of Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez series, revealed whether he would be interested in playing Luigi Mangione in an upcoming project.
When asked about his fans’ pleas for him to play the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the actor, 28, admitted he is not currently interested in playing to another accused murderer.
“I think I need to get away from crime scenes and do something else,” the Swallowed actor said. Entertainment tonight on Tuesday.
Still, he admitted that he found the online chat “funny” and “I can see” the physical resemblance between him and Mangione.
Before rising to fame in his latest role playing Erik Menendez, 53, in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters, Koch had auditioned to play Erik “seven years ago for the series Law & Order and for the Lifetime movie.” .
“I made it to the final rounds in both and ultimately didn’t make it. But I felt like I had to play this role,” he said. GQ Australia earlier this month. “I got the audition (for Monsters) and saw the test videos for the first time.”
Cooper Koch, the star of the Ryan Murphy series Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez, revealed if he would be interested in playing Luigi Mangione in an upcoming project.
After investigating the case of the Menendez brothers, in which they were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their parents in March 1990, Koch said he “was very moved” and “believed them immediately.”
“That’s when I found all the similarities and became quite obsessed with the case and its story,” Koch continued. “I was recording and recording, auditioning and auditioning, for seven years. Then you finally get what’s supposed to happen.’
Two high-profile documentaries about Luigi Mangione are currently in the works as America’s fascination with the alleged killer continues to grow.
Anonymous Content and Jigsaw Prods Confirmed Variety that they are making a series about the case, while producer Stephen Robert Morse is also creating a show.
Morse, who produced Netflix’s ‘Amanda Knox’ and directed ‘How to Rob a Bank’ about bank robbery master Scott Scurlock, will expose the perspectives of those at the center of the murder, including the victim, his family and the Mangione himself.
It will also explore the moral arguments that have sparked heated discourse in the weeks since the shocking murder in Manhattan on December 4.
Morse has also said that the documentary will provide context about the United States’ controversial private health insurance system.
“This case is complex and raises important questions about vigilantism, the devastating cost of a privatized healthcare system, and the inevitability of violence when peaceful change is deemed impossible,” Morse told Variety.
“I think I need to get away from crime scenes and do something else,” the Swallowed actor told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday; Pictured in his role as Erik Menéndez.
“My goal is to present a balanced exploration of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, showing all sides of the story, while respecting the profound loss of life and its impact on everyone involved.”
‘Every story is multidimensional and I believe in the need to treat all participants with kindness and fairness. This approach has always been central to my projects,” he added.
Morse’s production company, Morse Code Group, has appealed to “relatives, acquaintances, co-workers and witnesses” involved in Mangione’s story to get in touch.
Anonymous Content and Jigsaw Productions, led by director Alex Gibney, also announced Monday that they would be making a documentary.
The series will look at what led Mangione to allegedly kill and what the murder of Brian Thompson says about modern American society.
Still, he admitted that he found the online chat “funny” and “I can see” the physical resemblance between him and Mangione (seen earlier this month).
Mangione, an Ivy League engineering graduate, was arrested on December 9 moments after eating a hash brown at a McDonald’s in Altoona, PA.
Police closed in on the suspected killer after a restaurant employee recognized him from surveillance footage the NYPD shared online in the wake of the Midtown Manhattan shooting.
He was later charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Thompson, 50, shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel, where the executive was scheduled to give a speech to fund the heavyweights. that same day.
Police closed in on the suspected killer after a restaurant employee recognized him from surveillance footage the NYPD shared online in the wake of the Midtown Manhattan shooting.
Mangione appears to have led police on a 280-mile search from New York City’s 6th Avenue to the small Pennsylvania town of Altoona, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The gunman left a trail of open clues about his motive, including ammunition engraved with the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose” and a bag of money from the board game Monopoly in his backpack that he had left in Central Park.
Two high-profile documentaries about Luigi Mangione are currently in the works as America’s fascination with the alleged killer continues to grow; Mangione photographed last week
Anonymous Content and Jigsaw Prods recently confirmed to Variety that they are making a series about the case, while producer Stephen Robert Morse is also creating a show; Mangione photographed this month
Officials believe the bullet etchings refer to the “three D’s of insurance,” tactics used by American insurance giants to deny patient claims.
This motive appeared to be even more clearly outlined in a handwritten manifesto that police confiscated from Mangione during his arrest, which NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said expressed “ill will toward American companies.” .
“To the feds, I will be brief, because I respect what you do for our country,” Mangione wrote in the three-page document. “To save you a lengthy investigation, I clearly state that I was not working with anyone.”
“I apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it had to be done,” Mangione added in the document. “Frankly, these parasites just had it coming.”
Mangione also allegedly had a ghost gun believed to be the rare World War II-era inspired 9mm pistol used in Thompson’s murder. which, the New York Post reported, was a Swiss-made Brugger & Thomet VP9 and a silencer.
Mangione will next appear in court in New York at a later date.