ingenue

His nose twitches are as dramatic as an ingenue’s gasp.

Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."

All a male ingenue needed to do was smile and kiss the girl.

With Early himself fulfilling a long-held dream of portraying a classic ingenue, a role he fulfills with tender gusto, the film feels like the work of a bunch of pals having fun together while simultaneously producing a treatise on how to update the melodrama for modern times.

It’s her first substantial, serious part since 2023’s underseen “Reality” and she seizes the opportunity to be talked about as something other than the internet’s most polarizing ingenue.