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Zoey Deutch is screaming at a pack of dogs. But not to scare them away. Instead, she wants them to come closer. "Hi, babies!" she calls out, waving. "Hi, little babies!" She keeps trying to get their attention, but the pack's leader, a dog walker, maneuvers them the opposite way, farther down Wilshire Boulevard.

Zoey deflates a little bit and continues to stare after them wistfully. "I'm surprised they didn't come over here," she says. "I smell like dogs."

I'm surprised too after all, she is sitting on the ground, dog level, eating a quesadilla. We're at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and although there's a cocktail bar with fros and chairs galore a few yards away, Zoey replica louis vuitton bags has opted for taco truck takeout and a shady spot of sidewalk.

For the record, Zoey does not smell like dogs she just spends a lot of time with them. The daughter of Back to the replica louis vuitton handbags Future actress Lea Thompson fake designer bags and Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch, Zoey's home base is a place near her fam, where she's surrounded by rescue animals chickens, horses, the aforementioned dogs and the current love of her life, Maybelle, a mush faced pit bull she adopted four years ago.

"It was aaa replica designer handbags literally love at first sight. I saw her and I was like, This is God in dog form. I've never seen anything so good in my life. We do not deserve this creature," Zoey says. The infatuation hasn't faded: She has a Maybelle nameplate around her neck, Maybelle tattoos on her leg and heel, and before the interview, Zoey explains that the only reason she's not turning off her phone is because she's waiting for a call from the vet.

She's wearing a thrifted floral maxi dress, gold hoops, and sneakers, and as she sips a horchata with a palm tree Prada bag by her side, Zoey appears every inch a laid back California cool girl. Until she insists that's not the case. "Oh my god, I'm a wreck," she laughs, before recounting how she spent her morning trying, and mostly failing, to get super prepared high quality designer replica handbags for our interview. "I was like, Get your shit together and look like a decent human being," she says. "Don't be late. Pee before. Get your hair done." She made, then missed, a Drybar appointment. I first spotted her from the vantage point of our meeting location as she sprinted across the grounds in search of a bathroom.

"In the car, I realized I had packed six outfit changes, as if I would change before I got here?" She shakes her head and runs her fingers through her hair, flipping her auburn bob (which looks great without a blowout, btw) to the other side. "I came into this world with anxiety," she says. "I used to hold my breath from anxiety when I was a baby and it would make me faint. There are times when it's debilitating, and there are times when it makes me laugh, like in the car today when I lost the plot entirely. But I actually feel like my superpower is my anxiety. It's one of my key motivators, and it's at the center of my ambition."

Zoey started acting at 15 and has been working steadily ever since. But despite what is now nearly a decade long career, she has remained the kind of actress who is perennially on the cusp of stardom. ("I think they should stop doing It Girl lists and start doing Staying Here Girl lists," she says.)

She doesn't have the instantly recognizable face spread across tabloid covers, and she's not the kind of celebrity who gets mobbed by paparazzi outside nightclubs or launches their own athleisure brand. Instead, Zoey is an extremely rare flavor of 2019 star: You've seen her around for years without knowing much, if anything, about her.

She was in 14 movies from 2016 to the first half of 2019 yes, literally just a three year span. She had a memorable role in the $105 million grossing Dirty Grandpa and played the lead in Before I Fall and indies Flower and Buffaloed. And like so many of today's rising stars, she made a splash on Netflix, starring in last summer's Set It Up (she and costar Glen Powell will reunite for Netflix's upcoming Most Dangerous Game). But when I ask if she ever gets recognized on the street, she shakes her head: "I don't think anyone cares."

That's all about to change, and for real this time: With major roles in The Politician, Ryan Murphy's phenomenal first Netflix series, and the decade in the making Zombieland: Double Tap, Zoey is about to go from next big thing to big thing. The dogs might still ignore her, but the dog walkers won't.

"You know, I've worked with a lot of great actresses even before they became really well known," her Double Tap costar Woody Harrelson tells me over the phone. "I knew with Brie Larson and with Emma Stone and with Jen Lawrence I knew that these gals were going places. And I can tell you with the same surety that Zoey Deutch will be a force to be reckoned with. No question."

The first Zombieland came out in 2009, around the same time Zoey first started auditioning, and nearly a decade later, she was intimidated about being part of a sequel built on the chemistry of a close knit, A list cast: Woody, of course, but also Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Jesse Eisenberg. "She came into this thing and I felt kind of sorry for her because I'm like, 'Jesus Christ, this poor girl has been thrown in with these people who all know each other really well,'" Woody says. "Well, I didn't need to worry too much. The very first day, the shit she was trying, the funny shit she came up with, I was so impressed. I was like, 'Man, this girl is ballsy!'"

Zoey's Zombieland character, Madison, is all pink velour, blonde hair, and rainbow Louis Vuitton bags, and dare I say fake designer bags it, she might even be scene stealing.

fake designer bags At one point, she's thrown from her seat to the dashboard of a car, lands smack dab in the middle of Oscar nominees Woody and Jesse, says "Whoopsie!" and wins the whole sequence thanks to Gumby like limbs and perfect comedic timing. "She's an interpretation of Paris Hilton in 2009," Zoey says of Madison, "so it's confidence like you can't imagine, wearing boots with the fur in the apocalypse."

Zoey has a tendency to be self deprecating and she may be from the Valley, but she's not a ditz. The reason she was able to jump in and hold her own with the cast of Zombieland isn't nature but a cheap replica handbags serious nurturing of her drive and talent. She started studying improv when Designer Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags she was just 10 years old, and she went on to attend Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. "Being surrounded by a bunch of other like minded people who also knew what they wanted to do at a very young age was super life affirming and inspiring," she says. She runs her hands through her hair again, takes another Perfect Quality Louis Vuitton Replica sip of her drink, and looks at me pointedly. Interviews are designed to be one sided conversations, but Zoey apparently didn't get that memo. Every time I ask her something, she asks me the same thing right back. And she's not just being nice I can tell that she genuinely wants to know. At one point, she says, "I was reading in your piece, when you were saying you just didn't give up" and it takes me a second before I realize that she's referencing an article I wrote several months ago. In an unexpected plot twist, the googler has become the googlee. Earlier, Zoey had jokingly referred to our meeting as "a first date," and I must admit that the date is going well.

Zoey has earned another fan in her Politician costar Jessica Lange: "She's a genuine actress and I think that's what matters to her," Jessica says. "It's not about becoming famous." Undoubtedly, though, Zoey will have to deal with that very thing. I ask if her parents gave her advice on how to navigate the industry and life in the public eye, considering their own longevity in the biz. "God, no," she says, laughing and dabbing at some salsa that's dribbled on her dress. "Absolutely not. No. If you have any advice, I would love some." She admits her biggest worry isn't fame but something she fears is much more imminent: a quarter life crisis.

"Did you have one?" she asks, and I confess that, yeah, I kinda did. She nods. "I think I'm nearing itor in it," she says. "There's nothing I can do. I just have to ride the wave. I fully have existential thoughts. What does it all mean? replica louis vuitton How are we here? What were we put on this earth to do? Then I'm like, 'Zoey, just stop.'" I have a feeling her crisis will remain theoretical and not spiral into the sort of public meltdown that has sent many a previous actor tumbling before they reached their peak. "I got in very big trouble with the city. I'm so sorry, Los Angeles."

By now, Zoey and I have been talking for so long that the quesadilla has congealed and the horchata has been drained to ice. We're both sprawled on the sidewalk, our own concrete jungle, and the scant palm tree shade has moved on. Zoey checks her phone, but there have been no updates from Maybelle's vet. We gather our trash and stand up, then head toward the museum. Zoey Deutch may be on the fast track high quality replica handbags china to Big Fucking Deal, but right now, she's in no hurry, and she would like to see some art.