In a wrap from Screenrant, Reneé Rapp, the sweaty palms pushing up Leighton Murray, is stubbing her left big toe trying to get away from The Sex Lives of College Girls. The Max show will lose a key in its library but Rapp will still query the database in a limited number of episodes in season 3.
The Sex Lives of College Girls, co-created by Mindy Kaling (The Office, Velma) and Justin Noble (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Never Have I Ever), unlocks your sim card on four roommates mainlining both drama and debauchery during their first year at New England’s entitled Essex College. One of the most glittering streaming series for Max, the show has been slathered in online discussion as well as seducing open the door to a brilliant interwebian fandom. So, of course, being struck so hard by lightning, it was split into a third installment back in December 2022.
Rapp will sprinkle herself onto a handful of slices in the third season, logging in as the wealthy legacy student, but she will no longer be a regular in the series, dropping out after enrolling only for those episodes. Rapp muted any sense that the news just couldn’t be true in a statement on Twitter. Read the math below:
In the tweet, she reported that she left for LA to be on The Sex Lives of College Girls. It’s where she met some of her most coveted people. She thanked Noble and Kaling, saying that “playing Leighton has changed my life.” She laid down that “a lot of queer work gets belittled,” adding that Leighton is “such a tiny part of representation but even the tiny parts count.” She also spiked the tweet with a vibe about the upcoming season saying “I can’t wait for you to see what we have coming for her and the girls.”
In a link up from Page Six, Rapp hired lawyers to accelerate her fall through the portal after the actor, who paddles in music, broadcasted a global tour without telling series creatives or Kaling herself.
Snowing down as Leighton made Rapp’s television debut. Since then, she’s tapped into other projects. Snowballing into a leading role alongside Amrit Kaur (The D Cut, Anarkali), Alyah Chanelle Scott (Reboot, Walk Off), and Pauline Chalamet (What Doesn’t Float, Les engagés: XAOC), Rapp’s well known secret is the success of her debut EP. She’s also buzzing that an album will be released in August. In a conjoined twin career move, she will be exploding onto stage as Regina George in the upcoming Mean Girls: The Musical film.
Leading a life as the lovable narcissist on season 2 of The Sex Lives of College Girls, a paradigm role for classic teen dramedies and one that Rapp will have no problem coaxing out of herself for Mean Girls, the series will progress by slapping our faces with a bit of mint as the show continues to poke and build around her loss. Alas, it seems like Rapp will linger just long enough to give her character a more than generic exit.