Amanda Seyfried will always remember Mean Girls, even in the afterlife.
During her recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz brought up how the 2004 teen comedy is still so beloved today and potentially “bigger in the zeitgeist than maybe it was 20 years ago.” Seyfried played Karen Smith in the film.
“Until the day you die, a 14-year-old girl will come up to you every day and quote you as if [Mean Girls] just came out the day before,” he said.
The Mamma Mia! actress noted that the film became a “forever moment,” before adding, “I hope they quote it on my grave. … In many ways, it was just a perfect movie. People relate to it still, and it really — it connected us, and it continues to. And I will always be excited to talk about it. … I will, any day, honor that movie.”
Mean Girls, which also starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caplan and Tina Fey, was Seyfried’s claim to fame as a teenager. The movie centered on Cady Heron (Lohan), who becomes a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of catching feelings for Aaron Samuels (Bennett), the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George (McAdams).
“I truly think the experience of making it has nothing to do with how well it did, for sure,” Seyfried said of filming Mean Girls at 17 years old. “I think the experience for me is very specific, because I’d never been in a movie before. I’d never been on a set like that before. And I was working with people who had. So, for me, it was just, everything was new.”
The Long Bright River star added, “The relationships were new. … We all just got along so beautifully. And it was so, like, unadulterated fun.”
While the original film is still a fan-favorite, a Mean Girls movie musical based on the 2018 Broadway musical was released last year. In 2011, Mean Girls 2 was also released with a new cast and a different storyline.
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