Reneé Rapp gained reward from critics and followers alike when she made her Broadway debut within the stage adaptation of “Mean Girls,” however she says her behind-the-scenes expertise was extra personally difficult than it appeared.
In an interview with The Guardian revealed Wednesday, the “Sex Lives of College Girls” actor mentioned she was subjected to body-shaming by individuals concerned with the musical after she joined the solid in 2019. Ironically, Rapp was taking part in the function of Regina George, the bossy chief of the ultra-popular “Plastics” clique identified for making her classmates really feel inferior.
Though Rapp didn’t specify anybody by title, she instructed The Guardian that individuals “would say some vile fucking things to me about my body” throughout her “Mean Girls” run. She was additionally privately coping with an consuming dysfunction.
The scenario received so unhealthy, Rapp mentioned, that her mother and father flew to New York to attempt to persuade her to go away “Mean Girls” and give attention to her well being. The manufacturing ended up closing in March 2020 as theaters and different venues shuttered to curb the unfold of COVID-19. It by no means reopened.
A press consultant for the stage present didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
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Even with out the backstage stress, the North Carolina native remains to be engaged on a constructing a extra optimistic relationship along with her physique.
“Eating disorders don’t just go away and like, you’re healed, like: ‘Sorry, I can eat again, ha ha!’ It’s a lifelong thing,” she defined. “There are battles with addiction and whatever everywhere. I still struggle with it, but at least my parents know that I’ve been taken out of environments that were really harmful to my sickness, which is awesome and a huge win.”
These days, Rapp is specializing in music. Her first album, “Snow Angel,” was launched final week and is expected to be the highest-selling pop debut by a feminine artist this yr.
And those that missed Rapp’s Broadway run needn’t fret, as she’s reprising the function of Regina George within the forthcoming film adaptation of the musical (to not be confused with the 2004 “Mean Girls” movie, which starred Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams).
“This is a very specific version of the musical that has a really specific place in a niche, culty theater way, that I think expands it to maybe people who aren’t super into theater,” Rapp instructed People in April.
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