Viewers of The sex lives of college girls should be psyched up because they will soon lose sight of one of the students with the best record. Renée Rapp, who has played Leighton in the first two seasons, wants to focus on other professional projects and will leave the HBO Max series in the next few episodes.
“College girls took me to Los Angeles and introduced me to some of my favorite people. Two and a half years later, she has given me all of you and this community,” Rapp expressed from her Instagram account, where she wanted to thank Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, the creators of the series, for the faith they had in her to play Leighton.
“A lot of queer work is belittled but playing Leighton has changed my life,” she said of her character, one of four students who share a room at the University of Essex and who have to face the difficulties of fitting into a new environment and freely explore their sexuality.
If Leighton became one of the audience’s most beloved characters, in fact, it was partly because of her multiple layers. On the one hand, Rapp had the wealthiest, most popular, traditional and exclusive student on his hands. On the other, he had to strip the character of her frivolity as Leighton accepted her sexuality as a lesbian woman and looked for a way to live more honestly and without looking down on others.
“We love Renée Rapp very much and of course we are sad to say goodbye to Leighton Murray,” Kaling said on her Instagram account. From the looks of it, Rapp and Kaling have agreed to a friendly march: she’ll be in a few episodes of season three so they can fire the character off properly. And the reason why she wants to emancipate herself from the project? Rapp wants to give priority to other projects, such as her musical career.
This Wednesday, for example, he will release a new single, Talk too much, and in August he will publish his first album, entitled Snow Angel. She also plans to go on a tour from September to March that will take her to the United States, Canada and Europe.
