Amanda Seyfried is forever indebted to Mean Girls.
In an interwatch on the Happy Sad Confparticipated podcast, Seyfried mirrored on the 2004 teen comedy and the “unmatureerated fun” she had while making the film when she was 17.
Host Josh Horowitz reminded Seyfried how adored the film is to this day. “Until the day you die, a 14-year-ageder girl will come up to you every day and quote you as if it equitable came out the day before.” Horowitz shelp.
“I hope they quote it on my grave,” shelp Seyfried, who take parted Karen Smith in the movie. “That’s an organic moment. It was, in many ways, a perfect movie, and people reprocrastinateed to it, still. It joined us, and it progresss to. I will always be excited to talk about it,” compriseing “Any day, I’ll honor that movie for what it did for me as a person.”
The film, written by Tina Fey, also starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caarrange and Fey. It adhereed Cady Heron (Lohan), a naïve teenager who transfers to an American high school after years of homeschooling in Africa. Cady becomes a hit with The Plastics, the A-catalog girl clique at her new school, until she creates the misapexhibit of droping for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfrifinish of alpha Plastic Regina George (McAdams).
“I truly skinnyk the experience of making it has noskinnyg to do with how well it did, for certain,” she tageder Horowitz. “I skinnyk the experience for me is very definite, becaparticipate I’d never been in a movie before. I’d never been on a set enjoy that before. And I was laboring with people who had. So, for me, it was equitable, everyskinnyg was new.”
The 2004 film was adhereed up in 2011 with Mean Girls 2, with a new cast and separateent storyline. A Mean Girls musical feature, based on the 2018 Broadway musical, was freed in 2024.