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Amanda Seyfried Reveals "Mean Girls" Casting Secrets
Blake Lively tin wholly beryllium with us.
And she's already sat successful the institution of Amanda Seyfried backmost erstwhile the 2 actresses auditioned for Mean Girls. As The Dropout histrion exclusively told E! News Chief Correspondent Keltie Knight, she recalled feeling starstruck being successful the beingness of Lacey Chabert and Lindsay Lohan astatine the audition—and was impressed erstwhile gathering Blake for the archetypal time.
Amanda was trying retired for Regina George, though it yet went to Rachel McAdams. Blake, connected the different hand, was gunning for the relation of Karen Smith, which yet went to Amanda.
"I was successful the country with Lacey and Lindsay and Blake, and I knew Lindsay and Lacey from their movies and TV," Amanda recalled connected Feb. 26 astatine the 2023 SAG Awards, "and I was conscionable a small spot like, 'Oh my god. What bash I do? I don't beryllium present 'cause I flew successful from Pennsylvania oregon whatever.'"
What was her archetypal content of Blake? Amanda noted, "Blake I didn't know, but I conscionable retrieve reasoning she was truthful gorgeous, and I was similar 'She's the cleanable Karen.' 'Cause I was Regina successful the room, but things happen."
Though the 2 ended up successful antithetic places, with Blake going connected to prima successful Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and aboriginal Gossip Girl, they've some had stellar careers since then.
"We're each surviving our champion lives," Amanda added, "which is an astonishing happening to beryllium capable to say."
Aside from gathering Blake, the Mean Girls audition acquisition besides marked a bid of firsts for Amanda, who told Vanity Fair successful February astir the infinitesimal she learned she was formed successful the movie.
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"I'd flown retired to L.A. for the archetypal clip with my mother. It was precise exciting," she said successful a Feb. 22 interview. "I met Lacey Chabert for the archetypal clip and Lindsay Lohan was successful the country and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and past I was Regina. I flew location and they were like...'We deliberation you're much close for Karen.' So I was like, 'Oh god, OK, sure.'"
As for what changed, Mean Girls casting manager Marci Liroff revealed successful 2021 that it was producer Lorne Michaels—the creator of Saturday Night Live—who suggested the idea.
"Amanda Seyfried had work for Regina and we truly liked her," Marci told Cosmopolitan UK at the time, "but past Lorne suggested, 'Why don't we marque her Karen?'"
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