SLOCG’s Gracie Lawrence says she’s not “replacing” Renee Rapp

Gracie Lawrence joined the cast of season 3 of The sexual life of university girls as a result of Renee Rappthe exit of the Max series, but hopes that her character, Kacey, will not be seen as a replacement for the bad girls actress

“I think Kacey is very different (from Rapp’s character Leighton),” Lawrence, 27, said exclusively. Us Weekly at iHeartRadio z100’s Jingle Ball in New York City on Friday, December 13. “There was no intention to feel like I was replacing (her) or anything like that because this is an iconic character. Leighton is a beloved iconic character. I don’t think anyone, from the creators of the show to any of the actors, would want to step on that.”

Rapp, 24 years old, announced his departure from the series in July 2023. He appeared in two episodes of Season 3, which premiered last month, before Leighton left the fictional Essex College for MIT. Lawrence made her first appearance as Kacey, Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Beautiful (Amrit Kaur) and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) new roommate.

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Lawrence said we that the SLOCG team was “trying to do something totally new” by adding to itself and Mia Rodgers — who plays openly queer freshman Taylor — to the Season 3 cast.

“They’re building the cast with so much respect and homage to what (Rapp) brought to the show,” he explained.

Like Rapp, Lawrence has a musical background in addition to her acting repertoire. She and her brother Clyde Lawrencefounded the pop-soul group Lawrence and they have released four studio albums to date. Gracie sings on the show: Kacey auditions for a school musical while navigating a breakup, and she told him we who doesn’t know if the character was written to be musically inclined before she was cast.

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“My feeling is that they knew they wanted to make a character who was in the theater world and who might have some singing. I don’t know if (initially) it would be so much singing or not,” he said. “The fact that justin (noble), the show’s co-creator, was so passionate about (the) singing being live … maybe it’s because he liked Lawrence.”

Before lending her talents to the show, Gracie was a fan SLOCG “For years,” he said we.

“I’ve recommended it to friends and always thought it was so fun and great. And then having the opportunity to be there was kind of trippy in a weird way,” he said. “I’d pick Clyde and say, ‘I’m in the cafeteria on the show. I’m in it. I was like,'” I used to see that.’ So it’s a unique experience.”

With reporting by Molly McGuigan