Melissa Barrera's new horror comedy Your Monster is a lotta things. It's part musical, for starters, but it's also a romance flick – as much about falling in love with yourself as it is… the hairy half-beast living in your closet. In the multi-tasking hands of writer-director Caroline Lindy, the Abigail star wasn't fazed by the mix of genres; after all, she'd toe-tapped and doused herself in fake blood on screen before. She was frightened, though, by the thought of flexing her funny bones.
"I was like, 'This is perfect', but I hadn't done comedy in a while. I hadn't done comedy, really, since I left Mexico, so I hadn't used those muscles. I was scared because, like, maybe I wasn't funny? I didn't know," she laughs in an interview with GamesRadar+. "And I was a little skeptical of why Caroline thought that I could do this, because I'd never done anything like it. So, yeah, I was terrified, but I always feel like when something scares me, I should do it."
