He recently watched and loved Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the Ryan Murphy–fied crime drama series starring Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez. It made him think about the idea of the antihero, something he considered often when he was playing Ivan.
“For me, it was a big challenge to do him bigger than just antagonist,” he says, adding that he and Baker imagined Ivan going through the film in three stages: the first, as a freewheeling prince; the second,…

