Julie Molina

Julie Molina is one of the main protagonists featured in the Netflix Original Series Julie and the Phantoms. She is portrayed by Madison Reyes.

Personality
Julie is headstrong, determined, loyal, caring and has a wonderful voice. She values friendship, her family, and music over everything else. She's not afraid to stand up for herself and speak her mind when she gets annoyed. Julie loved her mom and looked up to her so much. Her mom helped Julie discover music when she was young and taught her how to play piano. She’s super talented and very artistic.

Physical Appearance
Julie is Latin-American with curly brown texture hair, brown eyes and light brown skin. She wears the same three necklaces almost every day. A choker with moons on it, a necklace that says “Julie” and Virgin Mary necklace. When her confidence returns, she starts wearing her mom’s old clothes. Sometimes she wears glasses.

Biography
Julie Molina was born sometime between 2004-2005 to Ray Molina and Rose Molina in Los Angeles, California. She has a younger brother, Carlos Molina.

Her mother, Rose, to whom she was extremely close to, passed away in 2019. Julie and her younger brother, Carlos, are then raised by their dad, Ray Molina, with help from her aunt Victoria, her late mother's sister. Rose’s death has had a profound impact on Julie, to the point where she lost her passion for music and exhibited signs of struggling to fit in at her high school. However, her spark is reignited when she meets three of the members of a 1995 band called Sunset Curve, who are now ghosts. The guys, amazed by her musical talent, ask her to join their band, setting her on the road to musical recovery as she begins playing with Sunset Curve. With Julie’s addition, the band is renamed Julie and the Phantoms (as devised by Flynn).

As the episodes progress, she develops a reciprocal crush on Sunset Curve lead singer and guitarist, Luke. She learns about his past and the hurt he carries around with him, and successfully attempts to help him make amends with his mother. To help the boys “cross over” in order to escape Caleb’s offer, she plays The Orpheum with them in Stand Tall. Although that was not the boys’ unfinished business, she still manages to break Caleb’s curse over them by declaring her love for her ghost friends, freeing them and rendering them tangible for repeated group hugs.

Relationships

 * Flynn (best friend)

From what we know in the show, Julie and Flynn have been best friends for a long time. Flynn helps Julie while she goes through the loss of her mother, and Julie wrote the song Flying Solo about her. At first, Julie doesn't tell Flynn about the cute, ghost boys in her studio, which drives a wedge in the girls' friendship. Once Julie comes clean, Flynn becomes the band's unofficial-official manager. She's the one who comes up with the name  Julie and the Phantoms .


 * Luke, Alex and Reggie (good friends, band members)

Julie first meets the boys in Wake Up, whom she accidentally summoned when playing an old Sunset Curve CD in her family’s garage that used to be her late mom’s music studio.


 * Nick (former crush)

Julie has had a long-time crush on Nick according to Flynn, but had never talked to him because she was too scared.

In Finally Free, Nick and his lacrosse team joined Julie’s dance class, where Julie and Nick become dance partners.

After spending time with Julie following his break-up with Carrie, Nick asks Julie out on a date in Unsaid Emily. Julie, however, gently declines as she realizes that she likes someone else.


 * Luke (crush)

In I Got the Music, Flynn teases Julie over her budding crush on Luke. Julie dismisses it, claiming that it is only because of their shared feeling of loss that their bond is close.

In Perfect Harmony, as Julie and Nick are practicing their dance routine, Julie begins to daydream that she is dancing with Luke instead, implying that she indeed does have a crush on Luke.

Alex and Reggie also tease Luke about his crush on Julie in “Edge of Great”, saying that “everyone can see the way you look at her when you sing”.


 * Carrie Wilson (former friend, current musical rival)

Carrie and Julie used to be friends as stated by Carrie in “Bright” and "Edge of Great". Trevor Wilson’s recognition of Julie in "Stand Tall” also shows that Julie used to be a close friend of the family.

Songs

 * Wake Up
 * Bright
 * Flying Solo
 * I Got the Music
 * Finally Free
 * Perfect Harmony
 * Edge of Great
 * Stand Tall

(Refer to Lyrics to all the Julie and the Phantoms songs for all the songs Julie sang)

Season 1

 * Wake Up (Appears)
 * Bright (Appears)
 * Flying Solo (Appears)
 * I Got the Music (Appears)
 * Finally Free (Appears)
 * Edge of Great (Appears)
 * Unsaid Emily (Appears)
 * Stand Tall (Appears)

Quotes
”They aren’t real. There’s no such thing as cute ghosts”. (Wake Up)

"AHH! That's me, ripping off the band-aid." (Wake Up)

Trivia

 * Julie plays the piano and is the lead vocals in Julie and the Phantoms.
 * She sometimes wears glasses.
 * She used to write songs with her mother. She now writes songs with Luke.
 * Her crush on Luke was first mentioned in I Got the Music.
 * In the first episode, Rose, who is presumably Julie's mother, is seen cheering the boys on and talking to them in 1995.
 * Hints have been scattered throughout the series to imply that Rose is Julie’s mother. A ticket to Rose's show can be seen on the lid of Julie's mom's chest of clothes. Julie's mom also has the Sunset Curve shirt that Rose received from Reggie.
 * Carrie and Julie used to be best friends, but the cause of their falling out is unknown as of season 1.
 * Julie is one of the few characters that have appeared in every episode so far, along with Luke, Alex, Reggie, Flynn and Nick.
 * Madison Reyes, the actress who portrays Julie, was born on June 25, 2004. The Netflix show was filmed from September to December 2019, making Madison around 14 and 15 years old at the time.