Netflix’s 'Freeridge' Cast Opens Up About The Moments They Truly Felt Connected To Their Characters While Filming The On My Block Spinoff

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Netflix's Freeridge cast interview. Comedy drama which takes place in the titular town, like its predecessor, but focuses on a new group of teens who get wrapped up in a kooky mystery involving a cursed box. These new kids on the block are incredibly delightful as are the stars who play them. The actors opened up about the moments when they truly felt connected to their characters while filming Season 1.  Fans became quite attached to Monsé, Ruby, Jamal and Cesar over the course of On My Block’s four seasons, and they’re sorely missed. But viewers are sure to love Freeridge’s Gloria, Ines, Demi and Cameron once they get to know them. I had the opportunity to speak to the cast and asked the group about filming the first season and when they truly felt in sync with their roles amid production. Keyla Monterroso Mejia, who plays headstrong leader Gloria, answered by recalling a subtle scene that also features her co-star and on-screen sister, Bryana Salaz.

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00:00Yeah, I think I think there's a beautiful scene where we're on the couch and we're

00:07laying together and we're sort of going throughout our day and I think it was the

00:11first time that I felt like no matter what I love her and I think because I

00:18maybe was loving you in real life there's like that moment it felt very

00:23authentic to me and it felt nice and I felt like no matter what we're gonna be

00:27fine and I don't know it's very special something about it was very honest and

00:33it I felt closer to her in a way that I don't think I had the rest of the season

00:37yeah I think our moments really those were anything shared between us whether

00:43it was the emotional moments or the fights not the physical fights but like

00:47but the screaming fights I think that's where I would really tap into Ines and

00:53understand and resonate with her so much there's one specific line that

00:57literally like I could see it's why does everybody keep treating me like I'm a

01:03baby and I'm the middle child in my family and sometimes even now I feel

01:08like I am looked at in that way of like the young one of the family and

01:12everything and I just want to be taken seriously as an adult sometimes and it's

01:16like I am competent on my own you know and so that was that was that line was a

01:21very very real moment for me yeah I have a little bit of an oddball answer I

01:28would say for me I felt most connected to Demi I believe it's the second

01:33episode where I'm holding the pre leave-out ceremony and let me tell you

01:40why because it was and it was only second episode so we'd only been

01:44filming for two weeks and it just clicked why Demi feels the need to do

01:50all of these like spiritual external things and it's because she's she's also

01:55trying to get answers from her friends and her personal life and so I feel like

01:59she uses that as like a big you know marker of her personality to like try

02:04and navigate her own funny like teenage problems while still being obsessed with

02:10the whole spiritual realm I think for me I I think that my connection to cam only

02:16grew as the season went on like to where towards the end we were like

02:20almost the same I even said like last night we were hanging out and I had said

02:24something and I was like oh my god that that was literally Cameron yeah but one

02:30scene specifically is like one that takes place in the Handy Mart I think

02:37that that scene really just like showed how people kind of ignore Cameron and

02:41put pressure on Cameron and like the things that he says and the emotions

02:44like within that scene like really established that bond from the start

02:48because that's like in the first episodes like the second scene and the

02:50whole show so yeah

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