Seriously, how was she never nominated? Monica was always the most intriguing character to me on the show and Cox adds so many layers to her with her performance. One of my favourite reviews of her performance is by the Los Angeles Times which said that it helped disprove the stigma that attractive women are incapable of being funny.
She plays a straight man excellently. The “7,7,7!” Monica, drunk Monica, sick Monica, competitive Monica all show her versatility as a comedic actress. Her chemistry with Matthew Perry is unmatched on the show, they make Monica and Chandler so believable and compelling. I know a lot of people say the writing for them was good, (and it was, don’t get me wrong) but the chemistry between them is so electric that it makes them compelling to watch even in plots where they engage in boring affairs like arranging CDs.
Monica’s insecurities, her need for validation, her ambition, her neurosis were all beautifully portrayed by Cox. It’s an utter shame that her work was never recognised by the academy.
Despite all the murdering, shooting Scream movies are apparently a good time. The cast of the original have said that making it felt like summer camp, which might explain why many of them have returned for the franchise’s latest installment, 25 years later. Also back are the vibes, which, according to Melissa Barrera, were strong. Coming off her breakout performance in the adaptation of the Lin Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights, the 31 year old actor, who was already a star in her native Mexico, joined the latest Scream as part of a crop of young performers (Jack Quaid, Jenna Ortega, and Jasmin Savoy among them), who were united with the Woodsboro OGs to take on the latest iteration of Ghostface. One of them was Courtney Cox, who took an immediate liking to Barrera, as you can clearly see in the following conversation.
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MELISSA BARRERA: How are you? I’m so sorry I didn’t go to your party. I just assumed that it was going to be a lot of people and that you weren’t even going to notice that I wasn’t there, so I didn’t want to text you because I knew you were gonna say, “Come!” It would’ve taken me an hour to get there.
COURTENEY COX: I always notice when you’re not in a room and it was pretty good music that night! We’ll do it again. I’m going to ask you a bunch of questions, and I don’t actually know the answer to any of these. When you started acting, how old were you? Was it before or after the music reality show that you did?
BARRERA: If we’re talking about the first time that I was ever in a show, it was in sixth grade. It was a weird take on Orpheus. I literally just danced in it. I maybe had one line in the whole show, and I fell in love.
COX: Did you ever act in TV shows or movies in Mexico?
BARRERA: I did. I was 21 when I did the singing competition show La Academia, and then I started doing soaps for Mexican TV. I did four telenovelas, some theater, and a few movies before moving to L.A.
COX: What was your first job in L.A.?
BARRERA: Vida.
COX: How long ago was that?
BARRERA: Vida was kind of crazy because I’d just finished doing a show for Netflix that was really popular in Mexico called Club de Cuervos. I was in the third season of it and it was huge. It was probably the only thing that I did in Mexico that anyone ever saw. I played this character that became really beloved, and after I did that I was like, “I need to move to L.A. now.” My thinking was that I was never going to do anything better than this in Mexico, which was
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Courteney Cox is such a versatile actress, I wish we saw more of her in films.
Gale Weathers and Monica Geller are polar opposites and she sells the role so well. Gale feels like a real, brutally honest, flawed yet multi-layered person. Great acting.
So I saw a tweet, I thought someone misspelled her name on Twitter. But I googled and her name is spelled "Courteney".
No, I distinctly* remember her name being spelled as Courtney, in magazines, in the Friends credits when I was growing up, in the Scream movies.
Am I the only one?
