Melissa Barrera on what makes Carmen a new kind of immigrant story
Barrera wouldn't call herself a dancer, per se, but she took several courses in the basics while at Tisch, and worked with salsa and other Latin styles in, she took an extensive course in flamenco, which "made my head explode, this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done".
She also worked extensively with her director to find a style of movement that not only came naturally to the actor, but to her character's own intuitive relationship with dance. "Her mother is a flamenco dancer," the actor says. "But Carmen has her own language." Aidan, too, has his own language. He's not a dancer, but a military man. And yet his curiosity slowly opens him up to the poetry inside his own body. When Mescal was first cast, Barrera had already seen his breakout role in"He had posted a few videos of himself singing back when he was on social media," she adds. "And I was like, well, he can sing. He can probably dance.
She was right. Though Mescal, as she explains, primarily draws his physicality from his years playing Gaelic football, "He can be graceful"."When we started the dance rehearsals," she adds. "We were both feeling very self-conscious and worried about looking like idiots. And so we were cheering each other on and drilling these choreographies until they felt like they just came so naturally to us that we didn't have to think about it.
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