Why Marco From The Kissing Booth 2 Looks So Familiar

When Taylor Zakhar Perez was booked for the pilot episode of Cruel Intentions, a reboot of the 1999 cult film of the same name, he was sure that he had finally landed his big break. "That was the one where you go, 'Oh, this is it. This is it,'" he told Kahnversations. He added, "This is an IP that everyone knows." Plus the cast was super impressive, as it included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter Gallagher, and Nathalie Kelley, to name just a few of the show's stars. Perez's character was even slated to be recurring down the road!

However, despite the fact that everything seemed to be going swimmingly, NBC declined to pick up the show in the end, as noted by Deadline in December 2016. That meant that the project was pretty much dead, something that took a long time to finally play out. "We called it 'cruel contention,' cause it was in contention for nine months," Perez continued to Kahnversations. That had to be super heartbreaking.

Still, despite the series never making it to air, people looking forward to the Cruel Intentions project may have seen Perez's face in casting announcements before he'd be Marco from The Kissing Booth 2.