Breakout: Keyla Monterroso Mejia captivated audiences with her performance in Curb Your Enthusiasm and made a memorable appearance on Abbott Elementary. Now, with Freeridge, Mejia graduates from comic relief to leading role. HannahJacksuhn writes
Mejia graduates from comic relief to leading role. She plays type-A teenager Gloria Salazar, who bears the burden of keeping her family functioning after the death of her mother. Between feuding with her feisty younger sister Ines , the will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic between her best friends Demi and Cameron , and her blooming crush on her tío’s new assistant Rusty , Gloria already has a lot on her plate.
, who she decided was “experimenting with seltzers,” had an obsession with G-Wagons , and passed time by dancing to Doja Cat on TikTok. With Ashley onMejia took a magnifying glass to her psyche. “She’s so unhelpful, and I had to find a way to justify why she was so bad at her job. It doesn’t come from a place of being a bad teacher because she’s lazy or she doesn’t want to work. I think she’s just so excited to hang around the kids and have fun that she forgets her responsibilities,” Mejia says.
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