Amanda Seyfried is perpetually indebted to Mean Girls.
In an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Seyfried mirrored on the 2004 teen comedy and the “unadulterated enjoyable” she had whereas making the movie when she was 17.
Host Josh Horowitz reminded Seyfried how beloved the movie is to at the present time. “Till the day you die, a 14-year-old lady will come as much as you each day and quote you as if it simply got here out the day earlier than.” Horowitz stated.
“I hope they quote it on my grave,” stated Seyfried, who performed Karen Smith within the film. “That’s an natural second. It was, in some ways, an ideal film, and other people relate to it, nonetheless. It linked us, and it continues to. I’ll all the time be excited to speak about it,” including “Any day, I’ll honor that film for what it did for me as an individual.”
The movie, written by Tina Fey, additionally starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caplan and Fey. It adopted Cady Heron (Lohan), a naïve teenager who transfers to an American highschool after years of homeschooling in Africa. Cady turns into a success with The Plastics, the A-list lady clique at her new college, till she makes the error of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George (McAdams).
“I really suppose the expertise of constructing it has nothing to do with how properly it did, for certain,” she informed Horowitz. “I believe the expertise for me could be very particular, as a result of I’d by no means been in a film earlier than. I’d by no means been on a set like that earlier than. And I used to be working with individuals who had. So, for me, it was simply, all the pieces was new.”
The 2004 movie was adopted up in 2011 with Imply Women 2, with a brand new solid and completely different storyline. A Imply Women musical characteristic, based mostly on the 2018 Broadway musical, was launched in 2024.
