Reinhart: Studios 'Too Afraid' for Lesbian Vampire Film — SkimNews
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- Lili Reinhart said in a Hits Radio interview that she's trying to adapt a novella 'about lesbian vampires' but studios are 'too afraid to make that,' urging any watching executives to take it on.
- Reinhart did not name the source novella, though observers speculate it is Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), about a young Austrian woman pursued by the title vampire.
- Reinhart made the comments while promoting Prime Video's adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis, in which she stars as PhD student Olive opposite Tom Bateman's Dr. Carlsen in a fake-relationship romance.
- Reinhart serves as executive producer on The Love Hypothesis, directed by Claire Scanlon and written by Sarah Rothschild, extending an EP résumé that includes Chemical Hearts (2020), Look Both Ways (2022), and American Sweatshop (2025).
- Reinhart's pitch lands while she has an active streaming series on Prime Video and a growing producer credit list — undercutting the idea that a queer supernatural project would be a risky first swing.
Why it matters: Reinhart is not pitching from the margins: she is an active EP with a Prime Video romance on the platform and a four-title producing slate including the 2025 film *American Sweatshop*. The fact that even a bankable streamer-tied actress-producer cannot land a lesbian vampire project on her own terms is a concrete signal of how narrow genre boundaries remain at the studio level, regardless of broader industry talk about queer content.
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