Lili Reinhart Recalls 'Suck In Your Stomach' Director Note
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- Lili Reinhart recounted a moment when a male director leaned over and silently told her to 'suck in your stomach a little bit' during a Cosmopolitan video with her Forbidden Fruits co-stars
- Reinhart refused to name the director despite co-stars Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, and Lola Tung urging her to reveal who it was
- Forbidden Fruits, directed by Meredith Alloway, casts Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a witchy femme cult that operates out of the upscale mall store Free Eden alongside characters Cherry (Pedretti), Fig (Shipp), and Pumpkin (Tung)
- Reinhart contrasted the toxic prior set experience with her Forbidden Fruits shoot, calling it 'ultimate collaboration' and noting that wardrobe choices for Apple — 'a lot of black and tight' — were designed for the character, not the male gaze
- Reinhart said Apple's wardrobe communicates 'stay the f*ck away from me' rather than 'look at me,' a distinction she credited to the female-led creative environment
Why it matters: The anecdote gives Reinhart's promotional tour for Forbidden Fruits a hook beyond the film itself, and her explicit contrast between a male-directed set and the female-directed production positions the movie's all-women creative team as its key selling point for press coverage.
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