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Melissa Barrera’s new horror comedy Your Monster is a lotta things.

She was frightened, though, by the thought of flexing her funny bones.

Melissa Barrera as �Laura� and Tommy Dewey as �Monster� in musical horror comedy Your Monster

“I was like, ‘This is perfect’, but I hadn’t done comedy in a while.

I was scared because, like, maybe I wasn’t funny?

I didn’t know,” she laughs in an interview withGamesRadar+.

Melissa Barrera as ‘Laura’ in Your Monster

It’s then that Laura realizes she’s not the sole occupant of the townhouse.

“It’s the ideal kind of love.

When someone loves you like that, it’s the safest kind of love,” smiles Barrera.

Tommy Dewey as ‘Monster’ and Melissa Barrera as ‘Laura’ in Your Monster

“I feel like that’s what Monster is there to teach Laura.

“Everybody wants a Monster.

Everybody wants someone who will love you unconditionally, but also make you a better version of yourself.

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A stronger and more empowered version of yourself.”

“I rarely saw him out of the prosthetics.

It was a blessing toactuallyfall in love with him as Monster.

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With indie films, you don’t have the luxury of time.

But we just clicked.

Luckily, too, because they didn’t audition me and he was already attached to the project.

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It could have been disastrous!”

Given his unusualappearance, the majority of the time Laura and Monster spend together is behind closed doors.

“It was a very collaborative process.

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Not to take any credit away from Caroline at all, because she is a genius for this.

But she was very generous and very open during the entire thing, so we talked about everything.”

I really wanted a big change.

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I stole [the glasses] from Caroline.

I was like, ‘Can Laura wear glasses?

Because I feel like it’ll help me a lot to channel you.’

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It was so unlike my style and all of that really helped me feel who Laura is.

Funny bones, activated.

Your Monster is in UK cinemas now.

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