-Lili, thank you so much
for coming on.
You look great.
I miss seeing you.
-Thank you.
-Tell me about your life
in quarantine.
Is there anything
that you've taken away
from your time in quarantine?
I mean, is it kind of good
to just stop and slow down?
-Yeah, I think my whole world
has been changed so drastically
within the last three years,
and I never really had time
to sit and kind of
process everything.
So to have that time
has been so valuable.
And it was so important for me
to not take this time
for granted.
-Yeah.
-My dog is itching himself next
to me if you could hear that.
-I couldn't, but --
-Okay, good, well, now you know.
-I just saw him.
I just saw him.
-Oh, come here, Mi. Come here.
Come here, Mi.
Jimmy wants to see you.
Come here.
-What's his name?
-Milo.
-Oh, stop it right now.
Oh, Milo, no scratching
during the interview, Milo.
You know that.
-Here he is.
-You good boy.
-He's very photogenic.
-Oh, he's so cute.
Is he loving the new house?
-He loves it.
He loves to have --
he just watches --
he looks at the bunnies
that are in my backyard
and just wants to rip
their heads off.
That's how he spends his nights.
If I can't find Milo, I know
that he's, like, staring out
the window,
looking at these bunnies.
-Do you like having
your own house?
How is it all going?
-Love having my own house.
Yeah, I mean, this is my first
place really to myself.
I had had, like,
a studio apartment in Hollywood
when I first moved to L.A.,
and, you know, like
a 400-square-foot studio.
-Yep.
-And when I moved to Canada,
I had to put everything
in a storage unit,
so I bought this house,
and I had just a tiny box
of storage unit stuff
to put in it.
So I was in a very empty house
for a while.
-I was going to say, yeah.
-Slowly accumulated
things though.
-Yeah, I lived in a studio
that -- and just piles of stuff
were just piled
around me so much.
I'm not really a hoarder,
so I don't really know what
the stuff was but maybe I was.
But there was one spot
in my apartment
where I could actually
just put my arms out.
I was like --
-[ Laughs ] Yeah.
-It was right in front
of the TV.
Yeah, that's a studio
right there.
I could touch my bathroom door
and I cook you bacon and eggs
right here
without moving at all.
It was small, but I loved it.
I had so much fun there,
and it was great.
When you get your own house,
that's it.
This is the beginning.
This is a new, new, new chapter.
It's going to be awesome, buddy.
Congratulations.
-That's what it feels like.
I'm excited. Yeah, thank you.
-And now you're leaving soon
because you're going to start
filming "Riverdale" again.
-Yeah, we're about to go back
in a couple of days to start --
Well, I have to quarantine
for two weeks.
-Yep.
-But then we are starting
our season five.
-Did you finish last season?
-No, we finished --
we had 2 1/2 episodes left.
So we stopped
in the middle of an episode.
So when we go back, we have to
finish three days of one episode
that we were filming in March.
So we're all going to be
significantly tanner.
Maybe I've gained weight
during quarantine
so I'll look a little different.
It's like -- it's like -- you
know, it's like five months.
It did make quite a difference.
I feel like it will be very easy
to tell when was in March,
when we filmed in September.
-Are you excited?
Are you nervous
to get back to work?
-I'm excited.
It will be nice to have
a routine and a schedule again.
-Yeah, there is something nice
about that.
-I guess I have no idea what
to expect in this COVID world
when it comes to shooting.
I hope it doesn't, you know,
take the fun away
from a day on set.
I hope it doesn't.
-Yeah.
If they do it the right way,
you could still have fun.
I mean, right now I'm
in a studio totally alone --
there's not even another human,
and that's a blast.
-Sure, you're having
a great time.
-I'm having the best time.
Are you kidding?
-Yeah.
-What can you tell us
about the new season?
Season five.
-Season five.
So, we're taking
the first few episodes
to finish season four
technically.
And then season five,
we're actually doing a --
I believe seven-year time jump
into the future.
-Wow.
-So we're not going to be
teenagers anymore.
-Oh, are you psyched about that?
-I'm psyched about it. I'm like,
I'm really psyched about it.
I think it will be nice
to play an adult.
-Yeah.
-But I also really appreciate
that Roberto, our show runner,
was like, "Yeah, let's revamp,
you know?"
We're not just stuck in high
school for seven seasons.
-Yeah, it's actually --
let's have a little change
and a little reboot.
That will be fun.
I want to talk about your movie,
"Chemical Hearts."
You star and executive produced
this as well.
-Mm-hmm.
-How was producing?
Was that fun?
-It was amazing.
I'm very honored that Amazon,
who produced it, gave me --
kind of they were like,
"Okay, go for it."
They really trusted me
as a first-time producer,
and it was an incredible,
incredible experience,
and I definitely want to keep
producing from here on out.
It was a really,
really fun time creatively.
It was very fulfilling.
-What an accomplishment.
I mean, you're so young
to already be a film producer.
Like, "Yeah, yeah, I did that
already, no big deal."
-Well, trying on different hats.
-Why not? I think it's cool.
Do you want to tell everyone
what "Chemical Hearts" is about?
-Sure, it's a story
of young love,
of Grace Town and Henry Page
meeting each other
at their senior year
in high school
and going through the trials
that is teenage love.
And although I do find the story
itself to be very universal
and it could have happened at
any age and not in high school,
I think it's a very universal
story of wanting someone
to be something
that they're not.
I think we can all
relate to that.
-Yeah, absolutely.
-Yeah.
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Lili Reinhart
in "Chemical Hearts."
Take a look at this.
-Okay, think about what it means
to be a teenager, okay?
Your parents pressure you
to succeed.
Your friends pressure you
to do [bleep]
that you don't want to do.
Social media pressures you
to hate your body.
It's hard even if you're a well
adjusted kid from a good family.
-Okay.
-So now imagine you can't be
with the person that you love,
like Romeo and Juliet
or Werther,
or you lose the person that you
love, like Holden or Conrad.
There's a reason why when
every author from Shakespeare
to Salinger
writes about young people,
they can't avoid the truth
that being young is so painful.
It's almost too much to feel.
-Thanks again
for coming on the show.
Congrats on the movie,
and give my best to everyone
on "Riverdale," okay?
Stay safe, pal. It's so good to
see you. Next time in person.
