No one knows what it takes to be an It Girl better than the cast of HBO’s new comedy I Love LA.
Created by Rachel Sennott, the series follows talent manager Maia (Sennott) as she takes on a new client, her bestie and rising It Girl Tallulah (Odessa A’zion). Naturally, given that premise, I Love LA pays a lot of attention to the world of influencers and digital culture, including what it takes to make it in that world.
In a virtual junket interview, Mashable Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards spoke with Sennott and A’zion, as well as co-stars Jordan Firstman, True Whitaker, Leighton Meester, and Josh Hutcherson, about I Love LA‘s take on It Girls and the internet.
“I think it’s having a special, unique quality that people latch onto and identify with but are excited by,” Sennott said of what truly makes an It Girl. “It’s hard to describe.”
“And you have to have a Sidekick,” A’zion added, referring to the It Girl phone of choice in the early 2000s.
For Hutcherson, I Love LA offered up a glimpse into the world of influencers, one he wasn’t entirely familiar with before filming the show.
“A person who’s a TikTok influencer might have a management team and a PR team and a studio where they record their TikToks,” Hutcherson said. “It’s a whole industry inside of it, and that’s just a new industry, just like how film and TV was a new industry once, so it’s another development in the world of entertainment. It’s cool to see a show that breaks into that world a bit.”
New episodes of I Love LA premiere Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.
