Melissa Fumero and Randall Park on Netflix comedy series Blockbuster, about the fallen video rental giant’s last surviving store
- Melissa Fumero reckoned Brooklyn Nine-Nine was her ‘one unicorn’, but meeting Randall Park and fellow co-stars in Netflix comedy Blockbuster changed that
- She and Park reveal what’s special about the series that follows the staff of world’s last Blockbuster video rental store, and how it brought the cast together
Actors are accustomed to change, always beginning and ending projects in various locations with new people. But for Melissa Fumero, who starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine for eight seasons, taking on a new role in the Netflix series Blockbuster was anxiety-inducing.
“I told myself ‘Look, that kind of magic doesn’t happen again. You had your one unicorn in your career. It’s probably never going to be that good again’,” says Fumero.
Those jitters went away when co-star Randall Park and the rest of the cast assembled to film the 10-episode show about the employees of the sole surviving Blockbuster video store.
“I met this cast and met Randall, and we started all working together, and it was literally the same magic unicorn again. I can’t believe it.”
Park – best known for the comedy Fresh off The Boat, that aired for six seasons – plays Timmy, the proud manager of a Blockbuster store in a small town in the US state of Michigan.
