Melissa Gutierrez

About the Job

18+ to play 18. Melissa is a study in performed loyalty, presenting herself as Lacey's fiercely devoted best friend while privately undermining the very relationship she claims to protect. She is socially fluent and quick with a cutting remark, using humor and cruelty interchangeably to maintain her position in the hierarchy. Her warmth reads as transactional, calibrated to whoever holds the most social capital in the room. She is not purely malicious but rather a product of a social environment that rewards performance over sincerity, and she has thrived in it at the cost of genuine connection. There is an edge of envy running beneath her cheerfulness, particularly around Lacey's prom queen status, that she never quite manages to conceal. *Talent must be comfortable with on-camera kissing. An on-set intimacy coordinator will be present for all levels of intimacy. *Talent must be based in Los Angeles or able to work as an LA local hire.