So it was a hard half of the year for me, and I was so desperate to work.
Eventually the work came.
It’s this incredible indie movie that was so satisfying to me.
I think it makes you hungrier.
Unless you’re one of the top ten famous people in the world, you’re never big enough.
And it’s like, really?
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What else do I have to do?
I want to do that.
I’m focused on that.
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Im finding smaller movies that have roles that are really challenging for me.
Barreras role inYour Monstercertainly proved challenging.
If something doesn’t feel honest to me in the moment, I go into a full body block.
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Moments like that often left Barrera saying, I cant do this.
I don’t like saying things like saying a line and not meaning it.
And sometimes acting is like that.
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You have to kind of just do things that you’re asked to do.
But I protect myself, I feel like.
I’m sure they’re not gonna use it, and then they use it.
I’m not gonna do it.
And then I just need to take a breather.
I need to talk it through.
And sometimes the directors like, What is it?
That’s been happening to me a lot lately.
It was, I want to say, completely different.
Where is she going to go?
And I wanted to check that that in the sixth movie, we saw more layers to her.
It wasn’t just the tough girl, the protective older sister that has all these walls up.
I was like, What happens when those walls break down?
And they also wanted that for all the characters.
you might find just that in her episode of Collider Ladies Night at the top of this article!
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