Melissa Barrera Starring in Spy Thriller Series with Simu Liu
Melissa Barrera at the Los Angeles premiere of "Carmen" held at the Linwood Dunn Theatre on April 20, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
Melissa Barrera continues being booked and busy. Next up is the espionage thriller series The Copenhagen Test alongside Simu Liu (Shang-Chi). And Remezcla got to see an preview of the upcoming show at the 2025 NBCU Upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
According to Variety, the official description of the series reads, “Five minutes in the future, a first-generation-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.”
The official trailer shows us Liu and Barrera. And while Barrera’s specific role hasn’t been revealed yet, besides her name being Michelle according to IMDb, she’s seen fighting in the trailer and leaving her mark on the action genre. There’s also a hint of a possible romance in the air between Barrera and Liu’s characters.
Barrera, who played Sam Carpenter in the last two Scream movies, was fired from the franchise for her social media posts in support of Palestine. At the time Spyglass Media Group, the production company behind the Scream movies, released a statement regarding Barrera at the time of her firing that read: “We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”
The Copenhagen Test is set to release on NBC.