Good day, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast!
I’m Valerie Complicated, an affiliate editor and movie author at Deadline. It’s possible you’ll be questioning why that is publishing on a Tuesday, as a substitute of Friday? Nicely, the excellent news is that is the primary of a particular two-part episode collection going down this month. Don’t fear, although! The present will likely be again for its third season formally on Fridays quickly!
Right this moment, I’m chatting with actress, singer and dancer Melissa Barrera, a dynamic, multifaceted expertise who has captured the eye of audiences via her versatile and charismatic performances. Barrera can at the moment be seen starring within the Common Studios horror movie Abigail.
The movie follows a bunch of criminals who’ve been employed to kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a robust underworld determine. All they need to do to gather a $50 million ransom is watch the woman in a single day. In an remoted mansion, the captors begin to dwindle, one after the other, and so they uncover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no regular little woman. The blood-thirsty vampire flick reunites Barrera with the hit Radio Silence directing workforce of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.
Barrera will later be seen within the horror romance Your Monster, which premiered on the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant and was acquired by Vertical Leisure. Written and directed by Caroline Lindy, the movie follows an aspiring actress (Barrera) whose life falls aside after a most cancers prognosis and devastating breakup. She finds her voice once more when she meets a terrifying but weirdly charming Monster (Tommy Dewey) residing in her closet.
Additionally upcoming, Barrera will star in The Collaboration, a movie about some of the defining moments within the fashionable artwork world. Written by Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody), the movie, based mostly on an acclaimed play, follows Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) as they start a profitable collaboration that can remodel fashionable artwork.
These tasks observe the field workplace success of the most recent Scream movie, through which Barrera reprised her main position. She beforehand starred in Warner Bros’ film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Within the Heights.
Barrera started her profession starring in telenovelas in her native Mexico together with La mujer de Judas and La otra cara del alma in addition to Siempre tuya Acapulco and Tanto amor. She starred in Starz’s Vida and in Netflix’s Membership de Cuervos. As a singer, she’s been in musicals similar to Spring Awakening, Younger Frankenstein and the Spanish pop-rock musical Hoy no me puedo levantar on the Teatro Aldama in Mexico Metropolis.
Off-screen, Barrera is an advocate for change, setting an instance and motivating others to make use of their voice. She has collaborated with Daring Futures, a nonprofit that leads coverage change, analysis, place-based organizing and tradition shifts by and for ladies and other people of shade in New Mexico.
On this episode of Scene 2 Seen, Barrera and I focus on Abigail, forming collaborative relationships in Hollywood, and the way to stay true to your self as a performer and as a person.
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