Mean Girls obtained rave evaluations when it first hit cinemas again in 2004, and has constructed a legacy as a popular culture phenomenon within the years since.
But the Lindsay Lohan-led teen flick nearly appeared very totally different, with US actress Amanda Seyfried – who performed the ditzy Karen Smith – revealing a last-minute casting shake-up finally iced out an eventual A-list actress from starring.
At one stage in the course of the audition course of twenty years in the past, Seyfried, now 37, was as an alternative testing for the position of ‘Queen Bee’ Regina George, which finally went to Canadian actress Rachel McAdams, now 44.
As for Seyfried’s position of Karen? It’s been revealed Blake Lively was within the operating for the character.
Seyfried instructed Vanity Fair: “I met Lacey Chabert (who played Gretchen Wieners) for the first time and Lindsay Lohan (Cady Heron) was in the room and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and then I was Regina,” Seyfried stated.
“I flew home [from the audition] and they were like, ‘We think you’re more correct for Karen. So I was like, ‘Oh god, OK, sure.”’
If she was solid, it will’ve marked Lively’s debut as a lead in a characteristic movie, however it didn’t take too lengthy for her to get fortunate. Just a 12 months later, she landed the position of Bridget within the beloved Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants franchise, and naturally, Gossip Girl got here calling shortly after in 2007.
Mean Girls casting director Marci Liroff beforehand stated Lively was their primary choose to play Karen, earlier than they went in a special course.
“We wanted Blake Lively, who hadn’t done The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants yet, for Karen,” Liroff instructed Cosmopolitan UK.
“She came down to the final tests but, at some point, some of the filmmakers said to keep looking.”
Reports have been swirling for years of a possible sequel with the unique solid, although nothing has ever eventuated.
In a tenth anniversary particular for Entertainment Weekly, Mean Girls screenwriter and star Tina Fey stated she regretted not making it occur nearer to the primary movie’s launch.
“At the time we did want to start the conversation about the sequel, and for whatever reason I was like, ‘No! We shouldn’t do that!’ Now I look back and I’m like, ‘Why?’ But now, no — it’s too late now,” Fey instructed the publication.
Source: www.news.com.au
