Camila Mendes And Lili Reinhart Pose For Cosmopolitian

Lili Reinhart and Camila Medes are featured in the new issue of Cosmopolitian magazine. The Riverdale costars are in the magazine to promote their hit CW series. Highlights from the interview are below.

Lili on rebuilding her confidence after failing in the acting business when she was 18: “I fell very hard into a deep depression. I went home and built up my strength. When I came back out here, I was 19 and booked Riverdale shortly after.”

Camila on being typecast: “A lot of the roles [I read for] were the urban, underprivileged kids that grew up in the Bronx, on shows that were about crime. I didn’t want to play a stereotype. I still find myself, even post-Riverdale, where I’m not Latina enough and I’m not white enough. I’m somewhere in between. I was born and raised in the U.S., but both my parents are full Brazilian. Also, Brazilian is different than Dominican; that’s different than Venezuelan. They’re all different types of Latinos. You can’t can’t categorize them as one big thing.”

Lili on crafting a Hollywood image: “I never had to do anything specific to craft my ‘image.’ I wanted people to know that I was a goofball, that I didn’t take myself too seriously, and that I love what I do. On my Twitter and Instagram, whenever I can, I try and show myself. I’m not trying to be an Instagram model.”

Camila on auditioning: “You see the same casting directors over and over, so you don’t want to mess up with one casting director for one role because then they’ll just think you’re bad, and then they won’t bring you back for something you might actually be right for. There’s so much pressure to be the best. In any job you do, you’re going to have off days.”

You can check out even more from their interview here.

Riverdale airs Thursdays on The CW.