Renée Rapp opens up about mental health and internalised patriarchy: 'I have reclaimed [my mental health] in the sense that I sought out help.'
One person she shed from her life was clearly a big love, as it inspired her to write break up track. While it cuts to the core grief of a romantic break up, Renée insists it was written as a means of fighting back against her own heartbreak.
“It was very hard to write in a very cathartic way,” she tells GLAMOUR. “I love a comeback. No matter how hard someone hits me upside the head, I am coming back ten times stronger. I’m so f*cking stubborn and competitive. So I got out of a relationship and I was like ‘mother f*cker, you think you’re gonna beat me?’”
Renée adds that writing a break up track has to be in service of herself, not anyone else. “I never want to write a break up song – or a song, period – that’s in service to another person. I don’t want to give anybody that power,” she says.has returned to the US for a second season this month – with a UK release date TBC. In the much-loved teen drama Renée plays Leighton, a closeted lesbian who struggles to come to terms with her sexuality.
Looking back on playing Leighton in season one, Renée describes her experience as “scary as f*ck”. Things were complicated in her own life – she was in a relationship with a man, while grappling with her own“I was honestly very homophobic against myself,” she remembers. “I was so wrapped up and judging myself – I would never do that to somebody else.
She describes acting in season one as feeling like “coming out all over again”. But in comparison, performing in season two helped her to “embrace and embody my queerness”.
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