Heading into “Mean Girls,” Avantika Vandanapu was bracing for the worst.
“I had mentally prepared for everyone to dislike me,” she says.
So the 19-year-old actress, known simply as Avantika, was pleasantly surprised when many considered her Karen Shetty the standout of the musical remake. The movie has already given her “pull in rooms that I didn’t know I could get into before,” she teases.
This weekend, she’s back with her second film within four months: “Tarot” (in theaters Friday), in which a group of friends participate in a tarot reading, only to start dying at the hand of monsters from the cursed deck.
Avantika also chats with USA TODAY about the most challenging aspect of starring in a horror movie, studying at Columbia University, and, yes, that “Tangled”
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