Reneé Rapp (Sex Lives of College Girls, Mean Girls) is not the “mean girl” that audiences are seeing on the silver screen. With the new release of the film adaptation of the musical Mean Girls, Rapp is opening up about her exit from the television series The Sex Lives of College Girls. While upon her departure she said that it was to pursue her singing career, some other details are coming to the surface, and it seems as if she is dealing with her own personal mean girls.
Rapp exited the series The Sex Lives of College Girls during the filming of season three. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Rapp opens up on her reasons for departing the series. In this, she talks about the work environment that she endured on the set of The Sex Lives of College Girls. There were rumors that there were people in the cast who allegedly made her feel unwanted and uncared for and even allegedly questioned her bisexuality. “The people in my life that I work with now care about me as a person,” she says. “And I think that is a difference from things I’ve experienced in the past.” She also stated that when she was offered the role in Mean Girls, she was at a point in which the industry made her feel “jaded and really angry and sad and bullied.”
“I was like, ‘I hate the industry,’” she stated. Since she transitioned from the set of The Sex Lives of College Girls, Rapp has felt more comfortable filming her upcoming film Mean Girls where Tina Fey (30 Rock, Saturday Night Live) has created a much more healthy environment where she feels much more empowered. When Rapp was offered the role of Regina George, originated by the iconic Rachel McAdams, for Rapp it was “was really exciting. I have a new start.” She also praised Fey for her ability to lift Rapp and other women up. “A lot of people talk about lifting women up and being a f**king feminist. And behind the scenes, it’s really not that. And I think that Tina is exactly as good of a person as she is hilarious and intelligent.”