Lili Reinhartis so much more than Betty Cooper.

“People haven’t really seen what I’m fully capable of,” she tells EW.

I want people to see me as something other than Betty Cooper.

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It’s hard to break out of that mold."

“It’s something that I wasn’t used to, having that influence.

But it was an incredibly collaborative experience.”

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Tanne agrees, telling EW that working with Reinhart on the film creatively was “fantastic.”

He adds, “[We] were partners from the start… “They get together really quickly.

And it also has elements of a movie about trauma and the way that people deal with trauma.”

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Reinhart was especially drawn to playing someone dealing with so much grief and heartache.

“I knew Grace was a troubled, beautiful soul,” she says.

You do have moments of happiness and you have moments that are carefree.

It’s a misconception that you could’t feel a million things at once.

Chemical Heartsdebuts Aug. 21 on Amazon Prime Video.