Watch: Rachel Sennott on her Saturn return, turning 30, and I Love LA

In between takes of her new Dazed cover shoot, the actress dishes on leaving X, her infamous crying selfies and the pressures of running her own show

“I just had my Saturn Return, and at the beginning of it, it was like ‘be prepared to lose everything, change everything,’” Rachel Sennott confesses in her DA-Zed Guide to Being. “I thought ‘OK sure’, but it beat my ass, it was horrible. I had just gone through a break-up, I didn’t know if my show would be picked up, I was like ‘What the hell is going on?’” Coming out of her Saturn return, Sennott is on top of the world. Her uber-popular show, I Love LA, was in fact picked up by HBO, and has been renewed for a season two.

“After you spend time here [LA], you find your rhythm and your friends – the show is a lot about that,” she tells Dazed. As our editorial director Dominique Sisley writes in her profile of Sennott, I Love LA, was inspired by Sennott’s own move to Los Angeles in 2020. It follows 27-year-old Maia (played by Sennott), an ambitious talent manager, and her friends, all trying to make it in Hollywood. “I am obsessed with the cast”, Sennott proclaims: “Jordan Firstman, Odessa A’zion, True Whitaker, Josh Hutcherson – you know him, you love him!” With the craziness of the entertainment industry, Sennott remarks on how grateful she is for her cast and her friends like Ayo Edebiri, who she’s known since college: “Having your people, who you’ve known for so long, there’s a level of trust there that feels good.”

Elsewhere, Sennott reflects on turning 30, her changing relationship with social media and her big Irish-Italian family. “A big part of my life used to be crying selfies. If I’m working a job where I’m in charge of like 300 people, it would feel disingenuous to post a selfie of me crying,” Sennott confessed. “So I think I just wanted to take space from the internet for a second and come back to it as my new self. But now I’m like, ‘I don’t think I need to go back on Twitter.’ It doesn’t seem very good over there, and I’m having a blast on TikTok.”

Watch the full interview with Rachel Sennott above, and read our interview with her here.

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