Caitlin Reilly is one of a batch of comedians who shot to notoriety by making short, low-tech character videos during lockdown. It was more of a survival tactic than anything, Reilly said—“not out of commercial need or financial need but emotional need.”
, on social media—while straining to hide some inner tension, which Reilly betrays with darting eyes or a quavering voice. On TikTok, she has 2.2 million followers.
When I met Reilly recently, at a trendy lunch spot in Larchmont, just south of Hollywood, she wore a loose-knit sweater and gold hoop earrings. “I got the probiotic smoothie—don’t judge me,” she said. The restaurant had the studied cool of some of her characters, such as the. Reilly was brought up in the neighborhood, where her family owns a children’s-clothing store called Flicka. Working there gave Reilly early exposure to L.A.-mom culture.
She spent the next ten years as “a poor, struggling actor that nobody cared about,” she said. She worked for a nanny agency that sent her on nannying auditions—meanwhile, she could barely getauditions—and kept her eyes open to the habits of the high-strung and privileged. One posh mother at a job interview shook her hand, noticed her acrylic nails, and asked, “Are you going to be able to work in those?” “Then her baby ran up to kiss her,” Reilly recalled.
By the time the pandemic hit, Reilly was in a rut. “I actually had a moment where I was, like, I think I’m going to shelve acting for a while, because nothing was happening,” she said. “I had gotten this job to be a personal assistant to a real-estate agent, who absolutely did not need a personal assistant. Like, her dog went to acupuncture, and I got yelled at for getting the wrong turkey slices for the dog.” She had recently joined TikTok but “detested the Internet.
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