Rachel Sennott first moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 2020. She got a shit welcome.
Connecticut-born and NYU-bred, Sennott took the leap to the city of dreams the way any actor would hope to: with a TV gig booked and relocation costs covered. But the auspices ended there.
“They put me up in this studio apartment in North Hollywood, and there’d been crazy fires. The sky was, like, orange-gray-brown,” she says. “I got out of my car at the apartment, and there was poop — human poop — out on the sidewalk. I was like, ‘L.A., here we come!’”
To be fair, her feelings about the West Coast were already in the toilet. She’d gone viral for a 2019 video she posted on Instagram captioned, “The trailer for any movie set in LA.” In it, a club beat pounds as she twirls around in a crop top, sung