168 NOVEMBER 2019 VOGUE.COM
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Paint It Red
Model turned actor Odeya Rush slips easily into teenage-girl tropes: from the rich, popular antagonist to Saoirse Ronan’s
Ladybird to the sympathetic best friend in last year’s Dumplin, for which she delivered a pitch-perfect Southern accent. “When
I first came to America, I didn’t speak a word of English!” reveals Rush, who immigrated to Alabama from Haifa, Israel,
when she was nine years old, before ending up in New Jersey. In this month’s Let It Snow—a Netflix romantic comedy based on
the best-selling young-adult novel—Rush returns to adolescent insecurities, playing a character who “really, really cares about
maintaining a perfect image,” the 22-year-old says. The role required a certain degree of dissociation, considering Rush has
become increasingly comfortable in her own skin—and with her beauty routine, a boon to her upcoming red-carpet appearances,
not to mention her career trajectory. “As I get older, I’m thinking of what characters I want to create.”—lau r en valenti
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL BAILEY GATES HAIR, RAMSELL MARTINEZ; MAKEUP, SANDY GANZER. PRODUCED BY PREISS CREATIVE. SET DESIGN, EVAN JOURDEN.