Rose Matafeo Is Reconstructing the Rom-Com
The creator and lead of “Starstruck” has crafted a heroine who responds to outlandish tropes in recognizably human ways.
Photographer: Bridget Badore
Publisher: The New Yorker
Format: Digital
Date: 2022/03/26
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“I had an interest in writing something I could be in as who I am,” Matafeo says, of “Starstruck.” “I’m not embarrassed of emotion, and feeling things, and sharing things that don’t make me look like the most put-together person.” Photograph by Bridget Badore for The New Yorker“I am ethnically ambiguous, and I’ve got curly hair,” Matafeo has said. “I’m the one who will say something sassy and then never be heard from again.” Photograph by Bridget Badore for The New Yorker