“I spent six months trying to relearn things I actually like in my own life,” says Madelaine Petsch, who played venomous queen bee Cheryl Blossom on teen drama “Riverdale” for its seven bonkers seasons . Including the color red: Her striking auburn locks were augmented with Cheryl’s signature color in almost every scene. Nearly a year after the series wrapped, Petsch, 29, is still working out where Cheryl ends and she begins.
“When I finished the show, I was like, ‘Should I cut my hair off? Do I buzz my head?’” she says. “I used to have the same red nails every day, same length, same everything. I was so sure I hated red.
” Today, though, she has clearly turned a corner. “I’m putting red polish on as we speak!” the actress says. It’s not too much of a spoiler to say red makes some chilling appearances in Petsch’s forthcoming horror film, “The Strangers: Chapter 1.
” The actress is back in LA after a year and a half working on a project she describes as “only something that crazy people would do”: shooting a trilogy, all at once and out of chronological order, on location in Slovakia. The new “Strangers,” whose first installment hit theaters Friday, is an expanded take on the 2008 film starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple under siege in their vacation house. The slow-burn thriller tapped into a primal, universal fear, and Petsch counts herself among its admirers.
“I was like, who would dare touch this amazing, perfect fi.
