Camila Mendes Stuns Who What Wear
Camila Mendes posed for Who What Wear. The young actress sat down with the outlet to promote her new film, Música. Highlights from her interview are below.
On what drove her to be a producer on the film: “I had been wanting to produce Brazilian American stories, and that was a goal of mine that I was trying to do post-Riverdale. I knew that’s where I was headed, but I wasn’t ready for it yet. I didn’t feel like I had that time to really bring that to the screen, and when Rudy was already doing it, I was like, ‘Oh, he’s doing it. I want to be a part of it. I want to be a producer on this because I have so much more to offer than just my acting here.’ I have a creative voice as a Brazilian American, but also, I feel like I can represent the women in this project in a way where they are not two-dimensional or feeling a little bit stereotypical. I don’t want Isabella to be this perfect girl, and she’s so chill and has no problems whatsoever. And I didn’t want Haley to feel like such a cold, career-obsessed person. It was really important to me as a producer that both female roles were fully realized, and they had really valid arguments for the things they wanted and that ultimately the problem wasn’t Isabella or Haley. The problem was obviously Rudy and what he wants and figuring out his path.”
On her Vanity Fair Oscar gown: “I’m not going to say I’m lazy, but I can be quite practical about things, and I was like, ‘Molly [Molly Dickson], I don’t know that I want to walk around with a fucking metal bra with a train.’ I was like, ‘It’s a party. I don’t want to be that girl who is dragging a train around. Everyone’s tripping over me.’ By the way, everyone was tripping over me. It was a nightmare. But Molly was like, ‘Do it for the photo. Please, Cami, do it for me. I’ve never been more excited!’ She was right. It was worth it. I loved that look so much, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I just laugh at myself because it’s so hard for me to be that extra, but it’s necessary sometimes.”
You can check out more from her interview here. Música is out on Prime Video now.