1/30/2024 0 Comments Before your eyes game ending![]() There were like 200 people there with me, and I had to get comfortable with that aspect of it and understand that this is what most of the show is going to be like. "At the beginning, I felt kind of stupid sometimes because I wasn't by myself. ![]() Those moments are shown through flashbacks, but with few exceptions where Liv hallucinates people from her past walking alongside her in the wilderness, in present-day, she is mostly the only actor in the frame. Since Liv is alone, her mind naturally wanders to her past, and she begins to work through the pain of her mother's abandonment, her father's death, and her complicated relationship with her baby's father, who is also a coworker. She doesn't want to be like her mother, who gave up on her kid, so that's also fuel," she continues. So, I feel like that's a fuel for her, but also, she's fighting for her unborn child. "She's fighting for for her dad even though he's not alive anymore, she's always wanted for him to be proud of her. And in those dark moments, she always thinks back to her dad and it's little key words that make her keep going," Barrera says. And I feel like Liv has that, too, with her dad. In moments of doubt and in moments of darkness in my life, I always resort to my mom's belief in me and my mom's trust and support in me and how she's always been by my side and has always been cheering me on even when I don't believe in myself, she believes in me. "I feel like I'm very similar to Liv in a lot of ways, and I feel like my biggest drive in life is my mom. ![]() Unfortunately for her, it proves to be a near-fatal decision when the plane crashes and she is stranded in the Canadian wilderness alone.Īs she struggles to survive by pulling whatever provisions she can out of the downed plane and using found objects in the supplies to start a fire and collect rainwater, Liv also encounters a bear, has to use the trial-and-error method (at first to disastrous results) to determine what local berries are safe to eat, make her own compass, and try to find her way toward any signs of human life - and not only for herself. And in her desperation to find her as soon as possible, she convinces two random strangers to allow her to join them on their charter flight. This revelation, coupled with her about to become a mother too, makes her seek out connection. Although her mother abandoned her when she was a child, Liv recently found postcards she had sent to her through the years. In Keep Breathing, Barrera, who thus far is best known for work on Vida and in In The Heights and Scream, plays Liv, a lawyer whose father just died and who learned she is pregnant and decides to take a spur of the moment trip to track down her mother. So when I was done, I was like, 'Oh my god, I'm so glad that I don't have to do it again.' But then after I watched it, I was like, 'I miss it, I want to go back.' I feel like it's the like the trauma of giving birth, how women forget about it to then have another kid," Barrera says with a laugh. The hours, the location - it was just a hard show to shoot. "It was just so tough, and not just for me for the crew, for everyone. But the hardest thing she has had to do thus far in her career, she tells Metacritic, was play a character trying to survive alone in the wilderness while also coming to terms with pain from her childhood in Brendan Gall and Martin Gero's Netflix six-episode limited series Keep Breathing. ![]() Read at your own risk!Īs a performer, Melissa Barrera spent years juggling complicated relationship dynamics on telenovelas, singing and dancing her way across feature film adaptations of a Broadway play and an opera, and physically running from a masked killer (not to mention mentally running from a dark, secret family history) - none of which seems easy by any means. Melissa Barrera in 'Keep Breathing' Netflix Warning: This story contains spoilers for Keep Breathing, streaming now on Netflix.
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