{"id":378288,"date":"2026-04-02T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:08:15","slug":"lili-reinhart-says-male-director-told-her-suck-in-your-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378288\/","title":{"rendered":"Lili Reinhart Says Male Director Told Her &#8220;Suck In Your Stomach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile promoting her female-helmed movie Forbidden Fruits, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lili-reinhart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lili-reinhart\" data-tag=\"lili-reinhart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lili Reinhart<\/a> recalled a toxic set she experienced with a male director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Riverdale alum opened up about the moment when asked \u201cone acting note that you took personally\u201d during a video with her co-stars Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp and Lola Tung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOh, yeah,\u201d said Reinhart in the Cosmopolitan <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@cosmopolitan\/video\/7623167113913552158?referer_url=people.com%2Flili-reinhart-says-a-male-director-once-told-her-to-suck-in-her-stomach-11940392&amp;refer=embed&amp;embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C122221973%2C122122240%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121960941%2C122122244%2C122122243%2C122122242%2C121487028%2C121679410%2C122251355%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121885509%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&amp;referer_video_id=7623167113913552158\">video<\/a>. \u201cWhen I had a male director come up to me and silently lean over and go, \u2018Just suck in your stomach a little bit.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReinhart wouldn\u2019t reveal the name of the director, despite her co-stars egging her on. \u201cTell you later,\u201d she teased them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Meredith Alloway\u2019s Forbidden Fruits, Reinhart stars as Apple, the leader of a witchy femme cult that operates out of the upscale mall store Free Eden. With Apple, Cherry (Pedretti) and Fig (Shipp) looking to complete their coven, they take in Pumpkin (Tung), only to discover a snake in their garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile stopping by Deadline\u2019s SXSW Studio last month, Reinhart <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/video\/forbidden-fruits-lili-reinhart-interview-lola-tung-sxsw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">discussed how empowered she felt<\/a> working on a female-centric set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt was ultimate collaboration, which is so nice, because sometimes that\u2019s really not the case, and it\u2019s like, \u2018This is what you\u2019re wearing,&#8217;\u201d explained Reinhart. \u201cFor Apple, it\u2019s a lot of black and tight, but it\u2019s not for the male gaze. It\u2019s for herself. And I think you can see the difference \u2026 it\u2019s not to say \u2018look at me,\u2019 it\u2019s to say \u2018stay the f*ck away from me\u2019 in a way, which I think is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While promoting her female-helmed movie Forbidden Fruits, Lili Reinhart recalled a toxic set she experienced with a male&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,36496],"class_list":{"0":"post-378288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lili-reinhart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}