Born in South Chicago, Perez got his start acting in musicals in opera houses in his community.
Do you find yourself scratching your head, wondering where you may have seen Perez before?
Curious as to what roles he’s landed that led him to star inThe Kissing Booth 2?
He appeared as the character Keith on the 2012 episode “iGet Banned.”
However, it didn’t end up being what he thought it would be at the outset.
Oof, that had to sting!
As to why things played out like that, Perez had a few ideas.
Hey, you take your victories where you might get them, right?
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We bet that guy wouldn’t have interrupted Marco fromThe Kissing Booth 2!
Taylor Zakhar Perez joined up with the regular cast in the 2015 episode “Young & Oh Brother!”
Maybe it helped him land the role of Marco fromThe Kissing Booth 2!
Specifically, he stepped into the role of Ari Stricks.
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“That was the one where you go, ‘Oh, this is it.
This is it,'” he toldKahnversations.
He added, “This is an IP that everyone knows.”
Perez’s character was even slated to be recurring down the road!
That had to be super heartbreaking.
Remind you a little bit ofBill Lumbergh?
And as Perez tells it, shooting the series wasn’t unlike being on the campaign trail.
He continued, “So we’re sort of living our versions of the embed life.”
During that time, Perez aka Marco fromThe Kissing Booth 2 was feeling great.
He was booking job after job, and he found his optimism building about the future of his career.
But that’s when things took a bit of a left turn for the actor.
“Then it wasdryfor two years,” he lamented in an interview withKahnversations.
It’s not surprising, then, that Perez has found some success in modeling.
Most notably, he was the face of Dockers in a campaign he shared on hisInstagrampage in March 2020.
“Felt cute, might delete later,” he quipped in the caption.
