‘Crew Girl’ Star Miku Martineau on Rowing Boot Camp and Love Triangles

The 22-year-old grew up playing sports, mainly hockey and gymnastics, and would love to incorporate that into a future role: "A female version of 'Heated Rivalry?' I would be down." Crew Girl star Miku Martineau on her rowing boot camp, love triangles and why she'd be "down" to star in a female version of 'Heated Rivalry. After a day of New York Fashion Week and press, actress Miku Martineau opted to spend the night in. Instead of buzzing around the city, as she had during the day, the 22-year-old settled in for the night to watch the latest Netflix YA, Crew Girl. To be fair, Martineau, as the star of the rowing-centric sports romance series, has been waiting quite awhile to see the finished product.

“I came home at 9 p.m. and just got in my pajamas and started watching,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom from New York. “It really intrigued me because I played a lot of sports growing up. I also had never done a coming-of-age YA sports romance story.” The Toronto native had little to no knowledge about rowing going into the show, which premiered on the platform on Sept. 10. “We had a three-week bootcamp to learn how to row. All of the actors, my castmates and myself,” Martineau says. “We wanted to