Cooper Koch Expresses Desire to Follow Up His Role as Erik Menendez with American Psycho Remake: ‘I Can Do Patrick Bateman’.Linh

Cooper Koch is ready for a new challenge following the success of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 19, Koch, 28 — who played Erik in 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 film American Psycho.

Per Deadline, Call Me by Your Name movie-maker Luca Guadagnino, 53, is in “final negotiations” to direct a new version of the satirical thriller, which originally starred Christian Bale as investment banker Bateman. Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) is reportedly on board to write the upcoming script, which is said to be a “new adaptation” of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, rather than “a remake” of the original film.

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

Since the release of Monsters, 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 told THR.

In the interview, Koch also said his “favorite movie of the year” was Guadagnino’s Challengers, starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist.

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

While speaking to Vanity Fair in a June interview, Bale’s former costars Josh Lucas and Chloë Sevigny — who played Craig McDermott and Jean, respectively, in the flick 24 years ago — discussed Bale’s acting choices in 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.”

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.”