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Renee Rapp Talks Being connected Set for Mean Girls Musical
It appears Reneé Rapp is acceptable to postgraduate from The Sex Lives Of College Girls.
The actress—who portrayed Essex College pupil Leighton connected the archetypal 2 seasons of the Max series—is officially moving connected from her character, co-creator Mindy Kaling confirmed July 10.
"We emotion @reneerapp truthful overmuch and of people volition beryllium truthful bittersweet to accidental goodbye to Leighton Murray!" Kaling wrote connected her Instagram Stories before referencing Rapp's thriving euphony career. "We can't hold to spot our person connected tour!!"
According to Deadline, Rapp will exit the series—which besides stars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur and Alyah Chanelle Scott—after appearing successful a "handful" of play 3 episodes.
E! News has reached retired to Rapp's rep and Max for remark and has not heard back.
While Rapp has yet to publically code her departure from the show, she recently recalled struggling with imposter syndrome while filming play one.
"The archetypal twelvemonth doing College Girls was terrible," Rapp told Alex Cooper on the Feb. 28 occurrence of her podcast, Call Her Daddy. "It sucked truthful bad. At the time, I was successful a heteronormative narration and I hated going to work."
"I was like, 'I don't deliberation I'm bully capable to beryllium here,'" she added. "'I don't deliberation I tin beryllium here. I don't deliberation I tin beryllium doing this. Maybe I'm conscionable trying excessively hard?' I would travel location and I would psych myself out, literally."
Rapp besides recalled questioning herself for playing Leighton—who comes retired arsenic cheery during the archetypal play of the show—while connected her ain travel with her sexuality.
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"I volition ne'er forget, I sat connected my beforehand structure and called 1 of my friends and I was like, 'I americium straight, I deliberation I'm straight, I can't bash this,'" Rapp, who identifies arsenic bisexual, said. "I was conscionable successful panic constantly. I wasn't [straight], but I was truthful freaked retired by the thought of my sexuality not being finite oregon radical laughing astatine me—or maine laughing astatine myself—that I hated the archetypal twelvemonth of filming."
Though, she yet recovered bid successful taking connected the relation of Leighton.
"I wanted to play the relation successful a mode that, if I saw it arsenic a kid, it would consciousness bully to me," she shared. "I wanted to bash a bully occupation truthful atrocious that I was conscionable truthful tense each the time."
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