00:00Wait, I can go in those stories? That seems fun.
00:04Hi, I'm Lexi Minitri, and I am on InStyle's 2026 Breakthrough List.
00:10I was a host at a restaurant. I did all the classic actor jobs. Host, server, bartender.
00:17I simply shouldn't have been a bartender. I think I was 19.
00:20My fifth grade teacher would call me the absent-minded professor
00:23because I was never paying attention in class, but I was always like reading.
00:26My head was in a book. When I found acting, I was like, wait, I can go in those stories?
00:32That seems fun. The Elle cast, they're all pretty cool and good at acting.
00:36I like them. I hope they all break through.
00:39I've gotten that I look like Renee Rapp before.
00:41When I open my mouth and I speak, I'm not nearly as cool.
00:44I think she's a great actor, so she could pretend to be less cool and we look alike.
00:49As soon as I was told by Reese that I booked Elle,
00:52I walked to the nearest jewelry shop and I bought myself a pair of pink stud earrings that were really
00:58nice.
00:59I'd never bought anything that nice before.
01:01I love The Proposal. That's a comfort movie.
01:04The Miss Universe pageant was going on and they yell out their country name.
01:07France was like, phah!
01:09I think about that a lot too.
01:10Elle and Liz ship edits.
01:13People really ship us together, so that's been popping up a lot.
01:16Kim K, when she put the glass on her butt, that's the first thing that came to my head.
01:20I would probably thank my parents for birthing me.
01:22I was really nice of them.
01:23You must be referencing the paramedic who stalked me, of course.
01:26I think I called my dad.
01:28Keep going because I think you have to be a little bit delusional to go after your dreams.
01:34I always kind of felt crazy for going after it,
01:37but I think you know in your heart when you're meant for something and when you love something.
01:41So just keep going at it.
