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Like Buddy’s mall scene in Elf, all of our favorite stores have officially been hot-glued and bedazzled with the latest holiday decor, and Lili Reinhart is fully ready to kick the holiday celebrations into high gear.
In 2020, Lili was forced to stay in Canada, where she and the Riverdale cast film, due to COVID-19 restrictions, which meant she had to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas without her family. This year, she plans to visit her parents at home in North Carolina to celebrate the upcoming birth of her sister’s twins. “I haven’t been over there in a while, and I really miss my fam. It’s been a minute,” Lili told POPSUGAR, adding that she can’t wait to play board games and decorate sugar cookies.
Ahead of the festivities, she and the Riverdale crew also celebrated a major series milestone: they filmed the show’s 100th episode. “We were all talking about how this is probably the only time in our lives we’ll be lucky enough to be on a show that gets a hundred episodes, and it’s true,” she said. “I really don’t think I’ll ever have that experience again. So it’s special, it feels really special.”
Thinking back to when the show first debuted in 2017, Lili can hardly believe so much time has gone by, reminiscing on what it’s been like to spend her 20s working on such a fast-paced production. “Even kind of booking the pilot, you think there’s a big chance that this thing isn’t going to go anywhere,” she said. “I’ve spent my entire 20s in Riverdale, so it’ll be such a trip when it’s over. I’m kind of at the point now where I’m just trying to enjoy it and be present with it because I know I’m going to miss it [so much] when it’s over. I think it’s really special to be a part of something that has such a dedicated fan base. I’m talking about it like it’s going to end tomorrow, but I guess I’m just being nostalgic. It’s been a journey.”
The nostalgia is welcome, and Lili’s ready to make even more heartwarming memories with her family, friends, and puppy, Milo, over the holidays. To help her younger fans feel more at ease during gift-giving season, the Chemical Hearts star partnered with Affirm to promote the brand’s new Debit+ card, which offers payment plans for purchases anywhere in the country. “The world’s coming back alive again, and people want to get out,” she said. “They want to travel, they want to entertain, they want to buy pretty dresses to wear to parties. It can, obviously, be really hard to pay for everything, especially because of COVID — money is tight for a lot of people . . . [But] this is a great jumping-off point for them, especially coming up on a season where you’re kind of expected to spend money.”
As part of the partnership, Lili also hosted a private event where she and five fans re-created some of her favorite holiday desserts. Ahead, hear more about some of Lili’s favorite holiday desserts and traditions and what she plans to get Milo for Christmas this year.
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