Cooper Koch Wants to Follow Up Playing Erik Menendez withAmerican PsychoRemake: 'I Can Do Patrick Bateman'

Mar. 15, 2025

Cooper Koch; Christian Bale on the set of ‘American Psycho’.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage; Eric Robert/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage; Eric Robert/Getty

Cooper Kochis ready for a new challenge following the success ofMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

While speaking toThe Hollywood Reporterat the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 19, Koch, 28 — whoplayed Erikin the hit Netflix show — said he’d now be up for taking on the role of Patrick Bateman in a new take on the 2000 filmAmerican Psycho.

“Luca’s doingAmerican Psycho, so I think I can do Patrick Bateman,” Koch toldTHRof setting his sights on the role. “I haven’t played a serial killer yet so I think I could do it.”

Cooper Koch in ‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’.Miles Crist/Netflix

Miles Crist/Netflix

Since the release ofMonsters, Koch said he’s had a fair few acting opportunities come up.

“Things are coming in, things are moving, things are happening, taking meetings, and the needle is threading so we’ll see, nothing is locked in or happening yet,” he toldTHR.

In theinterview, Koch also said his “favorite movie of the year” was Guadagnino’sChallengers, starringZendaya,Josh O’Connorand Mike Faist.

Christian Bale, Matt Ross in ‘American Psycho’.Lionsgate Films/Everett

Lionsgate Films/Everett

In director Mary Harron’s originalAmerican Psycho, Bale’s sinister character — who may or may not be a serial killer — satirizes 1980s white-collar American culture and consumerism.

While speaking toVanity Fairin a June interview, Bale’s former costarsJosh LucasandChloë Sevigny— who played Craig McDermott and Jean, respectively, in the flick 24 years ago —discussed Bale’s acting choicesin the early stages of filming.

“I don’t know if you felt this way,” Lucas, 53, told Sevigny, 49, in a joint interview. “But I actually truly remember thinking that Christian Bale was terrible.”

“I remember the first scene I did with him, I watched him and he seemed so false,” Lucas went on, adding, “I now realize that it was this just f—ing brilliant choice that he was making."

Director Luca Guadagnino.Gareth Cattermole/Getty

Gareth Cattermole/Getty

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He told the outlet, “That was an actor who was at such a completely different level already, and that he was capable of having these crazy layers going on in what he was doing. I thought it was bogus acting at the time, but was exactly the opposite.”

“I don’t think that I thought he was bad,” Sevigny laughed. “I was just kind of confused, like, ‘Why aren’t you being social?’ I wasn’t even that aware of what the Method thing was."

source: people.com