In high school, she was briefly in a girl group called Daddy’s Little Girl, which she described to Fault Magazine as “white girl Destiny’s Child” and done “so poorly.” “I feel like it was gentrification,” she said. Rapp grew up in semi-rural Huntersville, North Carolina. “I was so desperate to create my own sound. So, like, fuck everything else,” she says. Max has no comment.) “I always knew this is what I was going to do by any means necessary. (Rapp wouldn’t answer questions about leaving SLOCG her team cited the SAG strike. In July, Deadline announced she would downsize her role in the forthcoming third season of SLOCG, noting her “burgeoning” music career, while “Page Six” reported that she had planned a music tour without getting permission from the powers that be at Max. She’s nothing if not eager to get where she wants to go. Rapp’s bullishness can sometimes make her impatient. “I come from that brand of white mom who’s like, ‘You can be God if you want it,’” she says. “I feel like I could walk into anybody’s closet and make my style,” Rapp says, looking out at the ocean. Her long metallic-silver nails have slightly knifelike edges. Rapp is wearing thick black liner around her chlorine-blue eyes, hard-femme chains, and an oversize ensemble of a black leather jacket and red flannel over a black shirt (Rapp recently stitched a fan’s TikTok that described her style as definitively bisexual). We’re on a discreet hotel patio yards from the beach. And that’s Rapp on TikTok, where she posts things like a video with a redacted list of the “grudges I hold and why” to her 1.4 million followers. That’s the no-filter pop singer on the verge of releasing her first album. That’s absolutely Leighton Murray, the deliciously caustic, closeted fan-favorite rich girl in Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble’s The Sex Lives of College Girls (Rapp’s first TV role). Someone who can barely deign to be there? That’s glossy apex predator Regina George of Broadway’s Mean Girls, whom Rapp played as disdainful, bored, bossy, and drowning in her own confidence. Her permanently skeptical eyebrows are often deployed to withering heights as a performer, attracting praise and pockets of fandom in every medium she has tried. This is the blasé take-it-or-leave-it attitude that has become Rapp’s signature in her two short years in Hollywood. “Not the real, amazing, beautiful, culturally dense Los Angeles. This is where her “white woman shines,” she says. The 23-year-old actress and singer moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2021 to film the Max series she is now preparing to exit early. It’s a hazy early-June day in Santa Monica, and Reneé Rapp is drinking a muddy purple smoothie - the strawberry probiotic from the notoriously healthful, exorbitantly priced grocer Erewhon.
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