Lili Reinhart and Isabela Merced on the challenges of beauty standards, managing their mental health, and life in the public eye.
Two childhood friends reunite to reminisce about their theater-camp days and post-rehearsal mozzarella sticks at Applebee’s. It sounds like the plot of an indie comedy, except it’s real life and both women arefor Isabela Merced — they were two aspiring actresses in Cleveland, Ohio.
Merced, 22, was around 8 or 9 years old, and Reinhart, 27, was entering her teen years when they met at a community theater program. “You always seemed like my older sister in a way that was really cool,” Merced says to Reinhart. While they haven’t been in a film or television series together yet , they remember being in“I found footage of that recently that my mom took,” Merced says to Reinhart. “You were such a star. I was watching it like,.” Merced was a star herself, Reinhart says.
The actresses reconnected in adulthood at a Gen-A photo shoot with Armani Beauty last January. Gen A is a group of the next generation of young talent curated by Armani including Camila Mendes, Chase Stokes, Michael Evans Behling, and Chris Briney. Through Gen A, they come together in a series of photo shoots and at film festivals to discuss beauty, mental health, and their careers.
“To be a part of something with people in my industry who I look up to and admire and who are doing good work, to be grouped in with those kinds of people, is very validating,” Reinhart says. “I think it’s cool to think about how the kids who will go to the same community theater as us can see us doing this together and be like,: “It was always a classic go-to, but there was a moment in the YouTube tutorial space where everyone was using that.
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