On LosEspookys, the Barbiecore US Ambassador Melanie Gibbons finally meets her match in Secretary of State Kimberly Reynolds, played by Kim Petras.
wrote specifically for her. “When I got the scripts for season two, Julio mentioned to me, ‘I think we’re getting Kim Petras to be your boss,’” Titelman says. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, we wrote the part for her. We think she’s down to do it.
It all began, as so many surprise collaborations do, backstage at a concert. “In 2019, Julio came to my show at Terminal 5 in New York—Julio and [” Petras recalls. “We talked backstage. I’m a big fan of Julio and of Bowen, and we just had a good time and linked up.” Naturally, that backstage kiki led to a correspondence that set everything in motion.
Titelman maintains that Petras felt like a pro on set. “Kim was so easy,” Titelman says. “I was intimidated, obviously, because I am a huge Kim fan. I was singing Kim’s songs to her on set.” “It didn’t feel like Kim was acting for the first time,” Titelman continued. “She just immediately fit into theuniverse because she has the same sensibility, knows the same references. We’re all a part of the same kind of culture. She just got it.