CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If you were to try to imagine in your head what life as an entertainment star might look like, it could conceivably manifest as something along the lines of where Reneé Rapp is right now.
That is, sitting next to her manager in the back seat of a hired car somewhere in New Jersey, having just wrapped another rehearsal for Tina Fey’s movie version of “Mean Girls the Musical,” which started shooting Monday and will see Rapp reprise a lead role she played in the 2019-2020 Broadway version; using her phone to do a Zoom interview that’s being monitored by a publicity manager for her record label, Interscope Records.
But is this what the 2018 Northwest School of the Arts alum imagined what stardom would look like back when she was growing up in the Charlotte area, where she first charted a laser-focused path to success in an industry that guarantees so little?
