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Actress Madelaine Petsch became a household name thanks to her role as Cheryl Blossom in Riverdale (which is streaming with a Netflix subscription). She's been keeping busy in the years since the Riverdale series finale aired, in film projects that span multiple genres. Funny enough, her horror sequel the Strangers - Chapter 2 hit theaters just a week and change before her new rom-com Maintenance Required was released for those with an Amazon Prime subscription. And she spoke to CinemaBlend about the challenge and joy of promoting these two very different movies at the same time.

Critics were mixed on The Strangers Chapter 2, but her role in the franchise is cementing Petsch as a bonafide scream queen. But only a week and a half its release she's promoting the rom-com Maintenance Required, which is out now on Amazon. As you can see in the video above, I asked the 31 year-old actress/producer about what it's been like to have these two very different projects come out at essentially the same time.
Transcript
00:00Madelaine, I'm just very taken by your schedule currently and the fact that you're promoting
00:06this movie right after The Strangers.
00:09What is it like to have them coming out at the same time?
00:11Are you having genre whiplash?
00:14There are moments where I, like this morning when I got to the Amazon studios, I was like,
00:18okay, this is a rom-com.
00:19You weren't just being chased by masked killers.
00:21Your love interest is a person.
00:23He's not dead.
00:24His name is Bo.
00:25I had to like kind of remind myself about the film just because we just finished press
00:28for it.
00:29Honestly, what an amazing gift as an actor to show the versatility and performance
00:33like that.
00:34Like I feel so lucky to know that people can go watch Strangers 2 in theaters and go home
00:37and watch Maintenance Required and see Charlie and see the vast difference in those two characters.
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