- Ability over Appearance: In A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, she was auditioning to play the younger version of Rosario Dawson. Director Dito Montiel was torn between her and another actress who resembled Rosario more. He chose to cast Melonie because her audition was stronger.
- Actor-Shared Background:
- She grew up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York, like her character Laurie in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
- She's a social justice activist like her character Mel in Charmed (2018).
- Career Resurrection: Roles seemed to dry up for her around the beginning of the 2010s. Fruitvale Station becoming a Sleeper Hit at the Sundance festival saw her getting nominated for several awards, and bringing her back to prominence.
- Dawson Casting: 22 playing 16 in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.
- Star-Making Role: Lords of Dogtown is recognised as her breakthrough. Be Kind Rewind probably helped too.
- Throw It In!: She described Be Kind Rewind as essentially being "today we're going to parody X" and just going with whatever she was told.
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