The idea that this was so completely different to anything I’ve done before was the first thing that attracted me to it. What made you want to take on this rugged story?Įxactly that. I can’t imagine anything more opposite to a movie musical. Sometimes they would just write “she celebrates,” so I got to pick how she celebrates. There was a very detailed description of what was going on in the script, and then the occasional dialogue. Which jaw-dropping musical number had over 600 extras and multiple safety issues? Chu filled us in on that and much more!Ĭan you paint more of a picture of what those scripts were like? Was it more stage direction than dialogue? Was much of the solo dialogue in the episodes improvised by you?Ī lot of the verbalizations were in the script, but there was a lot more description. If the scripts ever are released and people get the chance to read them, they’re incredible and they’re written like novels. Honestly, it’s the most beautifully written show ever. It helped to have the amazing scripts that I had. I had to be very specific about what I was doing and thinking the entire time. I was like, “How am I going to do this? How much do they have to see? And how much can the story be told internally?” I needed to find the right balance for that, because sometimes the camera has these beautiful wides, but it’s mostly up in my face the entire time, so I wanted the story to really be told through Liv’s eyes. “Alone” with 200 people in the crew behind the scenes, but acting alone was intimidating for me. It was challenging, it was intimidating, especially because I was alone. Was it a challenge to get yourself into the emotions these circumstances required? It was the most fun I think I’ve had on a set ever. We did all the surface work on the lake, and then we did the underwater, inside the plane and everything in a tank, and so for that they warmed up the water. It was both terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. I think we did two takes of that, and that’s it. Let me do it!” But they were so worried, ’cause the water was freezing. They were like, “No, it’s too cold.” I was like, “Just a second. The only time that I went in without a wet suit on was that time when I go in in my underwear, and they didn’t even want to let me do that. That was real reactions to the cold water, for sure. Was your dialogue in the cold water scenes scripted, or were those your real reactions to the water temperature? I was just coming off of Carmen, so I was in pretty good shape and I felt confident about the land stuff, but the water stuff is what had me a little nervous. That was the extent of my physical preparation for the show, because that’s what I was most nervous about. And then, I did breath-hold training, because a lot of the scenes underwater I did on breath hold, so I had to do a little bit of training to expand my lung capacity just to hold my breath for longer. I had to get my body used to the freezing temperatures, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to move, so I did a lot of laying in my bathtub with ice during my quarantine before shooting. I did cold water training, because the lake that we were shooting at was frozen a week before we started shooting. I had to do a scuba certification training to get comfortable under the water and with the equipment, because I was going to spend a lot of time underwater. The most preparing that I did was the underwater stuff. I thought, “Oh, maybe that’ll come in handy,” but it didn’t. I’m a pretty handsy person, so I feel like I knew certain things like the physics of building a shelter, pulleys. Melissa Barrera: I didn’t know any survival skills. Were there any survival skills you already knew? What kind of training did you do, if anything? Here, Barrera breaks down the work put into Keep Breathing and why she desperately wanted to play Liv. As if plunging into freezing cold water and exerting her body to the point of exhaustion weren’t daunting enough, she had to deliver a compelling emotional performance to boot.
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(The series also stars Jeff Wilbusch, Juan Pablo Espinosa, Austin Stowell, and Florencia Lozano.)īarrera had her work cut out for her in this show. Liv must battle both an unforgiving wilderness and past personal demons to stay alive in the survival thriller. After her private plane crashes in the remote Canadian frontier, she finds herself as the lone survivor. In Keep Breathing, Barrera plays New York lawyer Liv, a workaholic who doesn’t let anyone in. The In the Heights star shows herself in a brand new light in the rugged six-episode story, most of which she acted in alone. Melissa Barrera braves the elements in Keep Breathing, a gripping tale of survival coming to Netflix July 28.
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