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Out of her couture, Chrissie is dressed in a blue and white striped button-down paired with jeans, and has her long, dark locks thrown up into a chic bun. The diminutive Los Angeles-based actress, known for her roles on General Hospital, Teen Beach Movie, and Pitch Perfect, has already begun promoting the third film in the Pitch Perfect franchise, though it's still months away from its premiere date: December 22nd. "People are so excited for the movie, which is awesome!" she beams. In 2015, Chrissie stepped into the role of Flo (one of the Barden Bellas: an all-girl collegiate a cappella singing group) in Pitch Perfect 2, featuring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, and Elizabeth Banks. "The audition process for Pitch Perfect 2 was crazy," says Chrissie, who had Elizabeth Banks in the room with her from the start "which was really kinda intimidating because she's so funny." Chrissie thought she blew the audition when she tried to switch to Spanish lyrics while singing Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and briefly forgot the words, but she was wrong. Her delivery was dry, sarcastic, and wonderfully funny –and that's exactly what they wanted. When Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon saw Chrissie's tape, she thought, that's exactly how I heard the character in my head. "The rest is history." Two days later, Chrissie was off to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin rehearsing for the film, which began with a month-long Bella Bootcamp. Was is it hard to jump right into this already-established, all-girl group? "Me and Hailee Steinfeld were the only new Bellas, so it was kinda intimidating going into a group of girls. The night before, I was like, 'Holy crap, I'm meeting all these women tomorrow.' Elizabeth Banks took me down to my first dance rehearsal like it was my first day of kindergarten — it was so adorable— and we got along super great from the beginning." Now the ladies are very tightknit, and recently vacationed in Cabo together. "Some of them have become my best friends —very supportive group, so I'm really lucky. We had a lot of adventures during filming the second one. It was the best-case scenario." Fans can expect Pitch Perfect 3 to be crazier, bigger, and full of jokes and stunts, she tells me. "I do a couple of them, but Rebel Wilson is the one who takes the cake. I think she could be a stunt woman at this point, like how much she trained for it… We're on a worldwide tour at this point, so we're going to all these different countries. But we kinda find ourselves in a little bit of trouble and the Bellas kinda have to stick together now, not just make music together, and kinda help each other out in the real world. We're going worldwide, like Pitbull" she says with a laugh. As for Chrissie's character, Flo, we'll see her take on a more entrepreneurial stance. "I always think it takes a lot of courage for someone to come to this country for school and make a better life for themselves. My grandfather did that when he left Cuba. He came with two kids and two suitcases and worked so hard to give us a great future. So I really admire that in Flo and think she's a very smart person." Fun fact: Flo's accent (she's a foreign exchange student) is modeled after Chrissie's mother's. "I always tell people, if my mom was in a college, she would probably be Flo, where she just says —she doesn't even know that she's saying it— the most morbid, weird, off kilter things that are a little dark. She hates when I say it though. She's like, 'Chrissie, I don't want to be famous. Stop talking about me.' She's like [gasps], 'I don't talk like that.' Mmm, have you heard yourself?" Chrissie laughs. In Pitch Perfect 2, Flo's comedic exchange with Chloe, played by Brittany Snow, is hilarious. Like when Chloe says: 'This is the worst thing that has ever happened to us!' "And then I would be like, 'When I was 9 years old, my brother tried to sell me for a chicken,'" she laughs. "It's like, 'My life has no…' [says Chloe]. 'Malaria.' That's what I said. And she said, 'Meaning!' I'm like, 'Oh, OK. Well I guess that's important, too...' It was always with Chloe, which was really fun, and Brittany Snow has become one of my best friends, so the dichotomy was cool." Chrissie never viewed these jokes as "woo is me" but as Flo making fun of their "white- girl problems," however, with the political climate what it is now, Chrissie had a few reservations when filming Pitch Perfect 3. "I wasn't 100% comfortable doing jokes about deportation, and 'in my country' because it's a very real thing we're experiencing now. I'm very fortunate to work with so many cool people that are receptive and want to make it the best movie possible, and want to make me comfortable. Also, you don't want to do the same jokes over and over." Taking a stand was risky –it could've led to less lines / jokes —, but it was important for her to represent Latinos in a positive light, especially in a major film like this. "In this third one, it's less about the differences that Flo has with the girls... We're a group. We're all different, but we work together perfectly." Like Flo, the Miami native is flexing her entrepreneurial muscles, too. "I'm a writer trying to develop different series and stuff, it's really what I aspire to do," she shares. "One of the series is based in Miami. One summer I worked in a recording studio, so many crazy things happened. So fun. It mostly has Latinos at the center, which is really important to me." Recently, Chrissie and Cyrina Fiallo created and starred in the digital comedy series, Temp(orary), on WhoHaha.com (Elizabeth Banks' "female platform for funny women"). "I enjoy writing comedies and that's basically what I've been focusing on. I don't rule anything out. I love the process of creating a world and the characters." Even as a child, Chrissie enjoyed creating and telling stories, and being in front of the camera. It's all documented in home recordings: Chrissie creating music videos and acting out scenes from Aladdin with her brother. "One of our bath towels was the rug. My dog would play Rajah. I was like a little director since I was a kid. Hopefully, one day I will be a real director." But there was a specific incident that helped her realize her passion for enter taining. While in 5th grade, she noticed that the six- graders' Spanish play did not include a 'bad girl' and she concluded that she should fill that void. "I read the script and I told the teacher, 'There's no bad girl in there. Can I be her?' I did the play and I was hooked on it. It was kinda to impress a boy, a six th- grader, Christian. I thought he would see me in the play and be like, Oh my God, she's the best. And he didn't," she laughs, "I was like, 'Alright whatever, I fell in love with ac ting.'" ML Keep up with Chrissie on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @ChrissieFit. What are you watching on TV? "Game of Thrones, like everybody else in the world. I am obsessed with any show that's British royalty, olden times. On Netflix, you know how they have suggestions? One of my suggestions is British television, another is Strong Female Lead. There's one called Victoria on PBS. It's about Queen Victoria. Obsessed. Downton Abbey, The Last Kingdom. I love all the history stuff, it's so fascinating to me. If you have a British accent, I'm in!" she laughs. "I watch Master of None, so funny, so great. Yeah, he's so funny, so talented. Another one creating content. I think it's a ver y important thing now, to do that as part of getting our voices heard. The OA. Have you seen that one? Ver y fascinating, kinda trippy. Netflix is killin'. Have you seen Glow? That's a good show. Outlander on Starz."