Forbidden Fruits, the new horror comedy starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, 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.
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.
When the project first came to Reinhart, she says it was “unlike any other script” that has been sent to her. “It felt like an homage to early 2000’s classics movies that you don’t see anymore,” Reinhart says. “I also have never played anyone like Apple, and I couldn’t get the idea of embodying her out of my head.”
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 “smart” yet “codependent,” and they all have some element of that, alongside a deep desire for Apple’s approval.
Tung, meanwhile, is the Cady Heron figure—the new girl in town who might end up more powerful than anyone expects. “Determined, clever, and guarded,” is how Tung describes her character Pumpkin to Teen Vogue.
In Forbidden Fruits, Pedretti says the message that most resonated with her was “the complete destruction of yourself in exchange for the illusion of belonging.”
Tung echoes this. “When 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,” Tung says. “When 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’s just a really fun script.”