Chiara Aurelia Plays a Teen Who's Ignored, Loved, Then Hated in Freeform's 'Cruel Summer'

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"Idon't want to say I have a small-town mind-set, but I love people and I love making friends. That's who I am, even now," says Chiara Aurelia, the lead of Freeform's new drama Cruel Summer, in which she plays a character whose experiences differ greatly from her own.

Produced by Jessica Biel (The Sinner), the 10-episode series is a fresh, multilayered take on the teen crime genre, and Aurelia, 18, delivers a standout performance.

Premiering April 20 on Hulu and Freeform, the show follows Aurelia's Jeanette over three years in the early 1990s. In 1993, she's an awkward outsider in a small Texas town.

But a year later, after one of the most popular girls in school is kidnapped, Jeanette is not only hanging with the girl's besties but also.