{"id":406726,"date":"2026-01-13T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:34:10","slug":"forbidden-fruits-release-date-and-why-lola-tung-was-drawn-to-this-campy-horror-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406726\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Forbidden Fruits’ Release Date and Why Lola Tung Was Drawn to This Campy Horror Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forbidden Fruits, the new horror comedy starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung<\/a>, Alexandra Shipp, and Victoria Pedretti, is something of a 2000s fever dream. Set in a Dallas shopping mall, our four leads are suburban mall Plastics who run their Free People ripoff Free Eden with killer heels and a female solidarity facade, tossing off Britney Spears references as they hawk overpriced boho chic.<\/p>\n

Teen Vogue can exclusively announce that Forbidden Fruits will make its way to theaters on March 20, 2026, bringing with it a flood of nostalgia alongside a very current analysis of the lengths young women will go to in order to feel part of a community. We’re also excited to exclusively share the official teaser poster, which hints at some lightly gory fun to come.<\/p>\n

When the project first came to Reinhart, she says it was \u201cunlike any other script\u201d that has been sent to her. \u201cIt felt like an homage to early 2000\u2019s classics movies that you don\u2019t see anymore,\u201d Reinhart says. \u201cI also have never played anyone like Apple, and I couldn\u2019t get the idea of embodying her out of my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Apple is the queen bee of the group, and Shipp’s Fig and Pedretti’s Cherry round out the foursome of super sellers. To say they have a complicated friendship is to put it mildly. Shipp calls her character \u201csmart\u201d yet \u201ccodependent,\u201d and they all have some element of that, alongside a deep desire for Apple’s approval.<\/p>\n

Tung, meanwhile, is the Cady Heron figure\u2014the new girl in town who might end up more powerful than anyone expects. \u201cDetermined, clever, and guarded,\u201d is how Tung describes her character Pumpkin to Teen Vogue.<\/p>\n

In Forbidden Fruits, Pedretti says the message that most resonated with her was \u201cthe complete destruction of yourself in exchange for the illusion of belonging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tung echoes this. \u201cWhen I first read the script, I was drawn to the characters and their complex friendship dynamics and the fact that the script centered around women in a space that feels like it is distinctly their own,\u201d Tung says. \u201cWhen I met with our director Meredith [Alloway], I loved the conversation that the script sparked. We could talk forever about the complexities of the characters and how much we all long for community and a sense of belonging. Also, it\u2019s just a really fun script.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forbidden Fruits, the new horror comedy starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Alexandra Shipp, and Victoria Pedretti, is something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78743,49,48,75,171466,81160,337,171467],"class_list":{"0":"post-406726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alexandra-shipp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lili-reinhart","13":"tag-lola-tung","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-victoria-pedretti"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}