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Who in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Cast Would Go to a Naked Party in Real Life?

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This story contains spoilers for The Sex Lives of College Girls.

College is a time for finding yourself, figuring out what you want, and making an absolute fucking mess while you do it. Mindy Kaling’s new HBO Max comedy, The Sex Lives of College Girls, digs into all of that—with an emphasis on the last part.

The series follows four freshman roommates at the fictional Essex College in New England, all from different backgrounds but each representing a different trope in the pantheon of “girls you meet at school.” There’s Kimberly Finkle (Pauline Chalamet), a goody two shoes from a working-class Arizona suburb who’s sweet, smart, and painfully socially awkward; Whitney Chase (Alyah Chanelle Scott), a powerful senator’s daughter and star soccer player who’s secretly hooking up with the assistant coach; Bela Malhotra (Amrit Kaur), an aspiring comedy writer—though her parents think she’s studying neuroscience—who’s aggressively embracing her sexual freedom; and Leighton Murray (Reneé Rapp), a city girl with a conservative, wealthy upbringing who’s hiding that she’s gay. When all four are placed under the same roof thanks to a random housing lottery, a delightful chaos ensues.

TSLOCG is charming, funny, and raunchy all at once, while tackling the real-life growing pains of your college years: defining yourself outside of your home and family, discovering your sexuality, battling misogyny in male-dominated fields, and learning that the real world is pretty damn brutal. The unlikely friendship between the four leading women is at the center of this story, and it’s embodied by four up-and-comers with an infectious chemistry. Most of them are making their lead television debuts. (Rapp was previously in Mean Girls on Broadway and Scott was in the Book of Mormon national tour. Chalamet appeared in The King of Staten Island and both she and Kaur had smaller past TV roles.) So, pre-premiere nerves were expected. “I’ve considered fleeing the country four times today,” Scott jokes over a Zoom call with her three co-stars. “So we are doing well.”

Before the show inevitably launches them into stardom, ELLE.com caught up with Chalamet, Kaur, Rapp, and Scott about TSLOCG, from their socially-distanced UNO game on day one to their most awkward roommate encounters.

Was your first day on set anything like what you expected?

Alyah Chanelle Scott: I think we played UNO the first day?

Reneé Rapp: We did! Yeah.

ACS: So nothing like I expected it to be.

RR: But six feet apart. I remember we were on the floor sitting, like, criss-cross or whatever.

Pauline Chalamet: Oh yeah! With the sticks!

RR: We would get close to one another and somebody would bring up a [measuring] stick and be like, “No!” [We’d] just scoot back. We’d have to throw [the cards] in like we were dealing cards.

PC: Like, crawl on our knees to go and get [the cards]. It was so hard to get UNO.

Amrit Kaur: Hey, I was crawling like a spider because I’m obsessed with winning.

ACS: I will never forget actually watching you crawl in like a spider. And I was like, “She has the strongest knees.” Like, it’s her… and Beyoncé. How does she do it?

AK: Okay, Miss Athlete over there.

ACS: I got bad knees, girl. I’m old.

Rapp, Chalamet, Scott, and Kaur in The Sex Lives of College Girls.

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This show is such a fun take on the college experience. Did any of you have a traditional college experience, and how did it compare?

PC: I had a traditional college experience. I went to a liberal arts institution. It wasn’t at all like Essex, though. It was much smaller. I partied a lot less. But, it was similar in that it is the first time that you’re living away from home and you have to make do with your freshman roommate. And you don’t really have a say in that.

AK: I didn’t have a similar experience to Bela. I wasn’t particularly loud about getting out of the house because I think my parents knew I’d be ratchet. Which now I’m expressing through Bela. But I was similar to Pauline—I think I went to four parties in all of my four years and had a curfew to come back to, but it was fun. And I went to theater school because I thought it would be the craziest experience in comparison to neuroscience, which was the other option, which is similar to Bela.

ACS: I think I went to, like, four parties in one weekend. I had a pretty quintessential college experience. I went to a state school, there were frat parties, there were football games, and that’s kind of part of the reason I wanted to go. I’m from Texas and I went to school in Michigan. I was, like, opposite end of the country, got to get outta here. And it’s really a good time to find yourself and party.

RR: I did not go to school, but I moved away after high school. And I started living my own life, or whatever that can be, as much as you can at that age. I definitely felt all aspects of the newness and uncertainty and feeling afraid, but I still feel that way at 21. I don’t know when that’s going to go away. I still kind of feel like I’m right in there. So this is my collegiate life experience.

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Like soccer player Whitney, Scott went to college far away from her home. 

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Rapp (Leighton) says she’s getting her college experience from the real world. 

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How did each of you work with Mindy Kaling to bring your characters to life? Were there a lot of hands-on moments behind the scenes?

PC: I think we all worked most with Mindy during the pilot, and she was very present and available for each of us to be able to go and discuss with her however we saw fit. But it was also a very new environment for all of us. So it was a lot of, “Who do I ask this question?”

ACS: I feel like so many of us were so new to it. A lot of it was just learning the language. It was a whole new experience. And so I feel like we kind of helped each other through it. And Mindy definitely was someone we saw navigate it with so much confidence and grace. It was amazing to watch her in this space.

AK: For me, Mindy Kaling has been an idol for so long. So, on set day, I was awaiting her arrival. “Just be cool, just be cool. Pretend it’s not a big deal.” I couldn’t stop staring at her. I think she still thinks I’m weird. And then eventually, there was a day I just had one line, and again, she was on set and I was so nervous. The line was, “Dude, your reflection’s in my selfie.” I could not remember that line for the death of me. And then I cried in front of her and asked her to come to the trailer. I just needed to express my love for her, because I was bombing because I was in awe of this woman. But it really helped to just express my love and then go from there. So, she was available for me being a nerd for her, which is fantastic.

“It was a whole new experience. And so I feel like we kind of helped each other through it.”

RR: Halfway through the season, we changed a couple of different aspects of Leighton’s character and what her relationship is to her friends prior to moving into the dorm. And as we were changing and shifting that all around, it kind of changed how I would take things on the day and mentally lock in with certain dynamics. And I got an email one day from Mindy that was like, “Hey, I think this would be helpful in order to… Let’s shift her this way, X, Y, and Z.” It was just a couple little notes that really ended up helping the rest of the season. It helped me a lot comedically and kept everything really consistent.

What I also love about this show—and a few other shows do this as well—is that it helps break the stigma against female sexuality, especially for younger women. Did that stick out to you as you were working on the project at all?

RR: I think it definitely did. I think the cool thing about the title being The Sex Lives of College Girls is, yes, it is inherently about our sex lives, but that’s just because sex is a part of life, if you want it to be. For these four girls, sex is a part of their lives and they do actively want it to be, and therefore it just is—as opposed to seeing it as a glamorized, glorified, really hot thing, which it 100 percent can be. We talk about this all the time—this is just the mess of how sex is incorporated into your life. Because at the end of the day, sex is more, but it is essentially just like navigating your relationships and those dynamics and how that affects you as a person, where you grow, and things like that.

PC: I completely agree with what Reneé said. Messy is the perfect word. It’s about the messiness, especially at that age—everyone’s figuring it out, it’s awkward. I mean, few people know their bodies exactly and what they like. I think that there’s room with these characters to explore further what that means for them. And they have four different storylines and different relationships to sex and their sexuality. So, there’s a lot of playing room, especially when you see the characters interact with each other.

“I think it’s very powerful to break the story that Brown women are submissive.”

AK: For Bela, just for Brown women to see a woman who is so sexual onscreen, we’ve never seen it to this extent. I think it’s very powerful to break the story that Brown women are submissive—North American film has played a role in that story, that narrative. I think it’ll be really powerful for young girls to see another woman admitting that she’s having sex. And hopefully we can all therefore admit [it] and not feel so alone in this sexual experience, because when we’re alone, it’s unsafe.

Yeah, it takes the shame out of it as well.

ACS: I was going to say, there’s a lot less shame surrounding the idea of sex. I think growing up in the South in America, there’s so much shame surrounding sex. Even to the point where I read the title of the show and I felt shameful, you know? I was like, “This is some trauma from my upbringing and that is why I need to be on this show.” [Laughs.] We’re just breaking that stigma. There’s no shame. You’re in the time period of your life where you should be exploring your sexuality and what you like and what you don’t like. And that’s what you could just see us do.

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Amrit Kaur as Bela

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Amrit, I like how you mentioned being so sexually free as Bela. Did you have any favorite lines of hers?

AK: Oh my Goooood! Every line she says is probably politically incorrect! I’m probably going to get beaten down for saying this; I love her line where she’s like, “Yeah, I’m just going to get slit-slammed.”… Slit-slammed?

ACS: Railed? Piped?

RR: Destroyed.

AK: Is that not normal? But I was going to say beforehand, when everybody was talking about the messiness of sex, what’s good with Bela and all of these characters is she’s not fantasizing it. Bela, as a sexual woman, has these fantasies of what that means. She comes from a conservative family and she’s like, “Yes! Now I can have sex and my parents won’t know.” But as a result of being so openly sexual, and this is true of society, men take advantage of that. Like, “Oh just because a girl is wearing a short dress, I can finger her, I can touch her ass, I can do this.” And she has to deal with that. And that is a reality that is brought into the show: people taking advantage of her open sexuality. What is the line for that? I don’t know. And it explores just that—the gray line in sexuality.

There is an episode that touches on that a little bit—the difference is consent. It’s her choice to express herself, but if it’s an unwanted approach, that’s something else entirely.

AK: Yes. Absolutely. People think that if [there are] rumors that you’re giving hand jobs, or that you do give a lot of hand jobs, or being sexual with X amount of partners, that means that I’m entitled to having sex with you too. But that’s not the way it is. You choose who you want to have sex with.

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Reneé Rapp as Leighton.

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Reneé, Leighton has a very interesting relationship with her sexuality where she suppresses it. She has a line where she says she doesn’t want it to be her identity. What did you make of that?

RR: I thought that part of Leighton would be the easiest to tap into and the most exciting thing about taking this job. I remember reading the pilot and reading the character description and being like, “Got it. Part of this is me. I’m good in this lane.” And it was the most difficult part of the job. Because, I’m an adult now, but… I’m still kind of a kid. I’m still dealing with these things that Leighton deals with, even though I’ve been out for the majority of my life. So that actually was really tough, because I think sometimes art imitates life and that’s the best part of it. And now coming out of the experience, I’m like, “This is like the most cathartic thing in the world.” It’s probably going to be the hardest thing for me to watch, but it was really tough in the moment—I’m basically talking about myself. And it’s very vulnerable and scary, but I’m very grateful that it ended up happening that way. And that’s why I love her.

Part of the changes you experience in college is the evolving relationship you have with your parents. Alyah, I wanted to ask you about Whitney’s relationship with her mom, because it affects her so much.

ACS: She comes from a household where her parents are divorced, and in that situation, I think she idolizes her father who is not around as much, and she’s so annoyed by her mother because she’s always around. She hasn’t really been allowed to ever exist outside of the parameters of her mom’s job and all that comes with that. Her whole life has felt stifled by it; she’s felt like she’s just been put down and squished into this little box and she just desperately needs to get away from it and her mom… I think part of the whole reason she chose Essex was to just go and be on her own.

And I very much did that. Not because of the relationship with my parents; just because I needed to get out of the South. She’s on her own for the first time, and so all of these rebellious desires come out that might stem from a place of trauma or neglect. And they surface in ways that get her into really messy situations. I think it’s a really interesting part of her personality. And I think her relationship with her mom is something that she struggles through and they are in the process of finding and fixing and curing.

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Alyah Chanelle Scott as Whitney.

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When you talk about Whitney’s tendency to get into messy situations, do you think that’s why she starts dating her soccer coach?

ACS: I mean, there’s gotta be some reason! ‘Cause I just want to hit her. I’m like “Girl, stop!” I’m like, “Whitney, you got this girl, you got this.” And she doesn’t yet. I think it comes from the idolization of these male figures in her life that are older and the desire to cling to something that affirms her and makes her feel safe. It makes her feel more grown than she is. Is she trying to grow up faster than she should? I think it’s a huge part of why she gets in that situation.

Pauline, and I wanted to ask you about Kimmy [Kimberly]—

PC: Oh, we like Kimmy! I like that nickname.

ACS: We love Kimmy!

She’s like a person you know. She’s the girl who comes out from her suburban upbringing and is in this new metropolitan, diverse community for the first time. And it could be easy to make her annoying, but you bring humor to her.

PC: It was really fun bringing her to life because, I guess, similar to all the other girls, there was something very intrinsically relatable as soon as I read it and was like, “Ooh, I like this. I like this girl who thinks that the world is going to go according to her plan.” It was just such a joy. Already doing the work is great, and then… you get used to reading scripts and you see the evolution of your character and you’re like, “Yes! I understand why she’s going this way.” It really speaks to the level of the writer’s room too, and how they were able to bring elements of ourselves to these characters. Which would make it even more of a mindfuck at times.

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Pauline Chalamet as Kimberly.

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How many times did you get secondhand embarrassment from the character?

PC: Oh my God, I can’t. I mean, I’m just thinking of a scene right now [in a future episode] and I can’t even. With Alyah. I can’t. I get secondhand embarrassment all the time.

ACS: Wait. What scene is this?

Is it where she meets Whitney’s mom?

ACS: Oh. Yeah.

PC: But, it’s not even just embarrassment of the scene. It’s the embarrassment of, like, I’m walking around the UCLA campus [in a certain outfit], then Alyah and I are learning TikTok dances and I’m like, “Oh, it’s so cute!” And it’s like, Nooooo! No! Kimberly’s living through me, really.

I was just thinking of the lines in the beginning, but you went straight for that scene.

PC: Oh, sorry. That scene came straight to me. But there’s plenty to be embarrassed about too. I’m even embarrassed when I think of [how] Leighton is this cool girl and she’s lying in bed ’cause she doesn’t like her roommates. And I come in and I’m bringing a burrito? Like, what are you doing? That’s so embarrassing!

RR: But you know, 100 percent, if any of these women brought me a burrito when I was sad, I would be like, “You are a good friend.” Feel no shame, Pauline, ’cause truly, Leighton, she’s a bitch, but Reneé would love a burrito.

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I want to play a really quick game of “Would You Rather” using situations in the show. Would you rather go to a naked party or endure a sorority pre-rush brunch?

PC: Naked party.

RR: Naked party.

AK: Party. [Gives a thumbs up]

ACS: Wait a second… maybe a sorority brunch. ’Cause you get a lot of food and snacks? I don’t know what they got at the naked party, but if they got food at the sorority brunch, I’m going there.

AK: They got dick and pussy at the naked party.

ACS: Sorority brunch, please. [Laughs.]

Would you rather date your French tutor or your soccer coach?

AK: Soccer coach.

PC: French tutor.

RR: French tutor, I think.

ACS: French tutor. Just so that they could speak French to me.

PC: I’ll tutor you, Alyah.

ACS: Oh, Pauline! Oui, oui.

PC: Mon petit croissant?

ACS: [In a French accent] Mon petit croissant!

In or out of college, what’s been your weirdest roommate experience?

PC: My freshman year college roommate would have sex in the room while I was in the room.

AK: Oh no, sis.

ACS: I don’t know if I’ve ever had a weird roommate situation, but I’m living with my boyfriend now and that’s pretty weird. No, it’s great. But… it’s my first time doing that. It’s different.

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Chalamet says she got secondhand embarrassment “all the time” from Kimberly. 

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In school, Amrit Kaur studied theater instead of neuroscience, much like her character Bela. 

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RR: My current roommate-partner. I dunno, [directed off-screen] whatever you are… He puts [his contacts] in and then the contact solution, the little caps, he flips them over on the counter. So when I go into the bathroom to wash my hands or do something, there’s all this contact solution everywhere. And can’t I tell you how many times I’ve had this conversation and it happened again yesterday. So this is me airing it out!

AK: I didn’t have a roommate in college, but I once was dancing to Beyoncé and did a move and ripped my pants in front of 50 people. That was a talking point for a long time. And then my last roommate was a Brown woman and we were doing COVID together. And I just fell in love with my Brown roommate during COVID. And my parents were like, “She’s your roommate.” And I was like, “But more.”

ACS: You could write a book about that.

AK: I have a standup set about that.

Was the Beyoncé situation in college?

AK: It was in college. There was a coffee shop that had windows, and during lunchtime, our theater class—there were three years of theater class: my year, the year above, and then the year above them—was all having coffee and lunch and I was trying to be cool. [There were] these other two guys who knew how to dance to Beyoncé; I shouldn’t have been there. And then I did this frog move… [Stands on her chair and then drops into a squat] I don’t know how Beyoncé does it. I still can’t do it. And I ripped my pants.

It’s the knees! We’re going back to the knees.

RR: I was going to say, when we were talking about the knees…

ACS: … This is what we meant.

This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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On Wednesday night, Jennifer Lopez arrived in Los Angeles with her 13-year-old twins Max and Emme. The family was likely there to join Lopez’s boyfriend, Ben Affleck, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Lopez recently returned from the much colder climate of British Columbia, Canada, where she was filming her latest project, The Mother.

J. Lo touched down in her private jet wearing a teddy fur coat from Coach’s Autumn/Winter 2019 collection, and a pair of Ugg boots. Classic airplane outfit, celebrity style. Lopez and Affleck originally dated in 2002 and broke up in 2004. Their romance was rekindled earlier this year, soon after Lopez ended her relationship with baseball player Alex Rodriguez. The new couple went official in July, while celebrating Lopez’s 52nd birthday abroad.

Affleck’s most recent relationship with Ana de Armas ended in January after about a year together. He had divorced ex-wife Jennifer Garner in 2015 after being married for almost a decade. Garner and Affleck had three daughters, Violet, Seraphina, and Sam.

Before traveling back to the U.S., Lopez posted a story to Instagram Reels about how grateful she was to be headed home.

“Hey everybody, it’s my last day here shooting on The Mother out in Smithers in the snow, it’s been beautiful, but tonight I’m on my way home,” she said, as she walked through the wild landscape in a black coat and beanie.

“I’m so excited for Thanksgiving! I hope everybody has an amazing weekend with their families and their loved ones, there’s so much to be grateful for this year. I’m on my way!”

This is the first major holiday of the year since Lopez and Affleck reunited, so it’s likely to be a big one for both families.

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This is not a drill: Everlane just kicked off its Black Friday sale. Now through Monday, November 29, the direct-to-consumer brand is offering 20 to 40% off its cozy sweaters, minimalist activewear, and popular jeans. If you’re not super familiar with Everlane, let me spell it out for you: this is a big deal.

The e-tailer might be known for making sustainable, ethically made clothes and accessories at a fair, affordable price, but Everlane rarely has sales beyond its Choose What You Pay section. So, if you want to stock up on cute basics for less, now’s your time to shop.

And, in true Everlane fashion, the brand is taking this opportunity to give back. Everlane is partnering with Rodale Institute and help U.S. farmers transition their farmland to regenerative organic—and donating $15 per order to the cause. A great sale that gives back? I’m sold.

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House Stark was right: winter really is coming. Made with recycled materials, this liner is a great layering piece that’s considerably chicer than the yesteryear’s Michelin Man-worthy parkas.

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