The Cut - Reneé Rapp Is So Over It

It’s a hazy early-June day in Santa Monica, and Reneé Rapp is drinking a muddy purple smoothie — the strawberry probiotic from the notoriously healthful, exorbitantly priced grocer Erewhon. The 23-year-old actress and singer moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2021 to film the Max series she is now preparing to exit early. This is where her “white woman shines,” she says. “Not the real, amazing, beautiful, culturally dense Los Angeles. I mean Erewhon. I work solely so I can go to Erewhon.”

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