XOXO, Mean Girl.
“Mean Girls” star Amanda Seyfried, 37, revealed “Gossip Girl” actress Blake Vigorous, 35, almost claimed her role as Karen Smith — the weather-predicting airhead — in Tina Fey’s 2004 cult classic.
“I’d flown out to LA for the primary time with my mother. It was very exciting,” Seyfried told Vanity Fair in an interview posted Wednesday. “I met Lacey Chabert for the primary time, and Lindsay Lohan was within the room, and Blake Vigorous was playing Karen, after which I used to be Regina.”
Seyfried reported that she left the room, waiting for a call to find out whether she’d play the preferred girl at school — but received a special offer.
“I flew home, they usually were like, ‘We expect you’re more correct for Karen,’” the Pennsylvania native recalled. “So I used to be like, ‘Oh God, OK, sure.’”
Marci Liroff, the “Mean Girls” casting director, name-dropped Vigorous in a 2019 conversation with Cosmopolitan UK, explaining, “She got here all the way down to the ultimate tests but, sooner or later, a number of the filmmakers said to maintain looking.”
“Amanda Seyfried had read for Regina, and we actually liked her, but then [film producer] Lorne [Michaels] suggested, ‘Why don’t we make her Karen?’” Liroff recounted.
Luckily for Vigorous, she faced no shortage of labor and went on to star in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and its sequel, “Gossip Girl,” “Accepted” and “Simon Says,” amongst other projects.
Liroff also revealed that “High School Musical” star Ashley Tisdale auditioned for the role of Gretchen Wieners, “but didn’t come all the way down to the finals.” Chabert nabbed the role as a substitute.
While Seyfried’s presence in “Mean Girls” catapulted her to fame, the role also attracted some creepy male fans. The Emmy winner told Marie Claire last yr that men would approach her and ask if it was raining, as her character Karen believed she could tell the forecast by holding her breasts.
“I all the time felt really grossed out by that,” Seyfried said. “I used to be like 18 years old. It was just gross.”
Seyfried and the three other “Mean Girls” leads — Chabert, Lohan and Rachel McAdams — have agreed to return for a “Mean Girls” movie for Paramount+, a small-screen version of the Broadway musical, but they were reportedly insulted by the streamer’s “disrespectful” proposed compensation.
