Actor Miles Teller reveals he met Erik and Lyle Menendez after the premiere of the Netflix series, 'The Menendez Murders'. Teller shared that the brothers are involved in projects aimed at improving prison life and that they were kind and welcoming during their meeting.
Koch said on TODAY he met Erik and Lyle Menendez after the series premiered on Sept. 19 when he went to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility outside of San Diego, where the brothers are
"I got to basically just tell him that I believe him, and I did everything that I could in my power as an actor to portray him as accurately and as authentically as possible," Koch said.“We just looked at each other, and immediately embraced. He was so kind. Lyle, too, I got to hug both of them and just be in their presence,” he said. “They’re such upstanding individuals. They’ve done so much work in their prison.
During their first trial, the brothers' defense team argued they were sexually abused by their parents. The trial ended in two hung juries, and in their second trial, a judge ruled evidence of their parents' alleged sexual abuse would be inadmissible. “How demoralizing is it to know that one man with power can undermine decades of progress in shedding light on childhood trauma,” the statement continued. “Violence is never an answer, never a solution, and is always tragic. As such, I hope it is never forgotten that violence against a child creates a hundred horrendous and silent crime scenes darkly shadowed behind glitter and glamor and rarely exposed until tragedy penetrates everyone involved.
Koch appeared on TODAY alongside two of his castmates, Javier Bardem, who portrayed Jose Menendez in the series, and Nicholas Chavez, "Your performance sits at the nexus of a great many things. First and foremost, it is the research that you do — which should be extensive — you feel an obligation to do so playing a real character, but then you’re also assimilating the creative desires of directors as well as showrunners. It’s a complicated and multifaceted process," Chavez explained.
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