Camila Mendes Chats Riverdale, New Films, & More With ELLE
Camila Mendes sat down with ELLE magazine to promote the mid-season return of Riverdale. Her hit CW show will return on March 6. Highlights from her interview are below.
On the most recent season of Riverdale: “I’ve had some heavily emotional episodes lately! It’s hard, because sometimes you reach into those deep dark places of your past or your present in order to play that emotion authentically. But then you find yourself, once they call ‘cut,’ still stuck in that mindset. It’s like you opened a wound, and now you have to see it through. I’ve had moments where the scene is over, but I can’t stop crying. And I have to walk out of the room for a few minutes to catch my breath and compose myself and then come back. Because that can be dangerous, to pull from personal experience.”
On her untitled Netflix film with Maya Hawke: “Oh my gosh! I don’t know. I think it can be interpreted as revenge? And you can use fame as an act of revenge. Fame is great as a tool for saying, ‘Look at me now.’ And I definitely felt that way in the beginning of my career. I was like, ‘Hey, all the exes that screwed me over! All the friendships where we had a falling out! Look! Being separated from you has actually been very good for me!’ But at the end of the day, that is not real.”
On her TikTok with Lili Reinhart & Madelaine Petsch: “We don’t work on [Riverdale] together that much anymore. Our characters don’t really interact. So we don’t get to see each other on set, which sucks. Getting us all together, logistically, is very difficult. And we’re also very lazy. Our TikTok was so last-minute and so thrown together…every once in a while, I’ll have an idea, but if you’re not careful, it can be a full-time job, and we already have those.”
You can check out even more from her interview here.