She’s witty and funny with her friends, but hopelessly tongue-tied around her crush, and Blanchard delivers both tones - and everything in between - with clear-eyed precision. That spotlight hasn’t been without its pressures, causing Rowan to state in interviews that she had to reevaluate the role of social media and that form of online activism in her life.Īs Paige, the lead in Hulu’s new queer rom-com Crush, which releases on Friday, Blanchard plays a slightly awkward high schooler who is struggling with her application to a summer arts program. Suddenly, she was looked to as an activist, incredibly poised, articulate and ready to shake things up. Time magazine named her one of the most influential teens of 2015. She gave a speech on feminism and gender equality at the UN Women and US National Committee’s annual conference that same year, as a member of #TeamHeForShe, which Emma Watson also lead. At age 14, the then-Disney Channel star wrote an essay on the importance of intersectional feminism which went viral, and wrote regularly for Rookie magazine. If you were on a certain part of the Internet around 2015, Rowan Blanchard’s reputation might precede her.
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