Lili Reinhart opened up about her toxic encounter with a male director on the set of Forbidden Fruits.
For those unaware, the recently released comedy horror film Forbidden Fruits is directed by Meredith Alloway, while Lily Houghton wrote the screenplay, as it is based on her stage play Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.
The film has an ensemble cast, including Reinhart, Gabrielle Union, Lola Tung, Emma Chamberlain, Alexandra Shipp, and Victoria Pedretti.
Apple, Fig (played by Shipp), and Cherry (played by Pedretti) include Pumpkin (played by Tung) to complete their coven, but things take an unfortunate turn when they discover a snake in their garden.
While conversing with Cosmopolitan along with her co-stars Shipp, Tung, and Pedretti, the 29-year-old American actress asked to share “one acting note” that she “took personally.”
She said, “Oh, yeah, when I had a male director come up to me and silently lean over and go, ‘Just suck in your stomach a little bit.”
It is pertinent to mention that Reinhart kept the name of the director under wrap despite being encouraged by her co-stars to disclose his name.
“Tell you later,” the Riverdale star told them.
This comes after her March appearance on Deadline’s SXSW Studio, where Reinhart got honest about feeling empowered working on a female-centric set.
She quipped, “It was ultimate collaboration, which is so nice, because sometimes that’s really not the case, and it’s like, ‘This is what you’re wearing,’”
“For Apple, it’s a lot of black and tight, but it’s not for the male gaze. It’s for herself. And I think you can see the difference … it’s not to say ‘look at me,’ it’s to say ‘stay the f*ck away from me’ in a way, which I think is great,” Lili Reinhart explained.
