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It’s been a hot second since we’ve heard any updates about what’s going on with The L Word: New York, but Coachella has reignited our curiosity after Reneé Rapp brought four of the people who made the original the iconic success it was out on stage for her set.

And it does make you wonder.

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was there something more behind that choice?

Rapp was going hard to make her set as gay as it could be, so it’s entirely possible corralling stars Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, and Kate Moennig, along with co-creator/showrunner Ilene Chaiken (who was developing the east coast spin-off, the last we heard), up on stage to introduce her was just an extension of the Mean Girls star being loud and proud.

But The L Word has come up a few times in Rapp’s life lately.

She ranted on Instagram about getting emotionally invested while watching it for the first time back in January and did a round of “fuck, marry, kill” with the characters in February (which I would personally like to say I do not agree with!!).

Is it possible Rapp’s getting so invested because she’s picking up The L Word mantle and going to star in the New York take on the series? We sure like to think so!

Of course, we don’t actually know whether the show is even still in development.

And letting go of the og cast would be difficult to do.

But when news broke, it was reported as a reboot, not a revival like Generation Q, so it seems like anything’s possible.

So let’s just run with this idea, mmkay? If The L Word: New York is still in the cards, and Rapp is getting camera ready as we speak, who else should round out the lineup?

Here are our picks!

In the past few years, Renée Rapp has left behind a trail of iconic belted notes, stellar albums and EPs, and starring roles on stage and screen.

But her press tour for “Mean Girls” may be one of her best performances yet.

Whether she’s shouting out her celebrity crushes or coming for dudes she just hates, Rapp’s comments while promoting her new film are anything but canned.

The general joke online is that Rapp hasn’t received any PR training — or at least, she hasn’t taken it to heart — but whether she has or hasn’t, it’s impossible to deny that her self-assuredness has endeared her to many.

Take this clip from the “Mean Girls” junket.

A media-trained celeb might sit through this press day gamely but carefully answering questions about how she got into character as Regina George, if she’d seen the original “Mean Girls” movie, and dispensing mildly interesting anecdotes from the set.

Not Renée Rapp.

No, she’s gonna dig into a guy named “Buddy” who owns a bus company and apparently disrespected her, her friends, and her mom:

But our queen of angry diversions is not done yet.

After saying collaborator Megan Thee Stallion, who Rapp worked with on the “Mean Girls” soundtrack song “Not My Fault,” has the “best ass I’ve ever seen,” she comes for yet another man.

“I am like a true, true Meg supporter, and um, I hate that other man,” Rapp told Extra, alluding to an incident involving Tory Lanez, who was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison after shooting Megan in the foot in 2020.

The case, as Business Insider previously reported, brought racist, and misogynistic harassment towards Megan.

“So, I love Megan Thee Stallion.

I love her.

And if anybody tries her when it comes to that sorry-ass man, it’s a do-or-die fight for me.

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