“I don’t want to be seen forever as Betty Cooper.'
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty/CW/Amazon StudiosScan any profile about the “” actor since she shot to fame on the hit CW series and the phrase pops up again and again. It’s a signifier of her status as one of Hollywood’s rising stars whose first major role was inhabiting a classic character steeped in Americana.
Fans, however, really do feel like they know Reinhart, a celebrity who appears to be more proximate to the average 20-something than most. Maybe that’s because she became famous for portraying the quintessential TV teen or the fascination with her personal life , but it’s a delicate push and pull for the star who’s not afraid to wield her social media might to set the story straight.
Reinhart has never been more keen to close the gap between public perception and her true persona. Executive producing and starring in the new film “Chemical Hearts,” which hits Amazon Prime on Friday, is her first big step toward injecting her point of view into a career that’s largely been on other people’s terms.
“This was such a beautiful opportunity to show the depths of being a teenager and how actually painful it is,” Reinhart said, adding that there’s “nothing more boring than seeing the same teen movie over and over again.”“I didn’t have easy teenage years. I wasn’t all about school dances and getting the guy to like me and losing my virginity. It had nothing to do with any of that actually,” she continued. “I was constantly struggling to feel like I belonged somewhere.
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