Mean Girls
Amanda Seyfried opens up about howMean Girlsalmost negatively impact her career , revealing it almost stereotype her acting pick . Seyfried star in the 2004 adolescent comedyas Karen Smith , a member of the ruthless popular lady friend pack known as the Plastics who is the sweet but ditsier of the group . Loosely based on Rosalind Wiseman’sQueen Bees and Wannabesself - assist Quran , Mean Girlsrevolves around teenager Cady Heron who transfers to a public high school after being homeschooled in Africa and learns of the topsy-turvydom that comes with teenage societal cliques .
Lindsay Lohan led the castofMean Girlsas Cady alongside Rachel McAdams as Plastics leader Regina , Lacey Chabert , Amanda Seyfried , Lizzy Caplan , Daniel Franzese , Tim Meadows , Ana Gasteyer , Amy Poehler and Tina Fey . Directed by Mark Waters on a book from Fey , the film dispatch field of operations in 2004 to for the most part electropositive reviews from critic for its guidance , writing and performance , namely that of Lohan , and was a box office smash , gross over $ 130 million against its $ 17 million budget . Mean Girlshas since get on to earn a passionate furore following in the years since and despite helping found many of its stars ' careers , one nearly found herself snare by the celebrity .
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In a recent career - spanning interview withVariety , Amanda Seyfried speculate on her time with the fan - favorite teenage comedyMean Girls . Though praise it for getting her " foot in the threshold , " Seyfried opened up about how the motion picture nearly negatively touch her career by pigeonholing her into a certain archetype . See what Seyfried shared below :
" Mean missy got me on the map , it really got my fundament in the door . But getting pigeonholed was the matter you had to fight . Back in 2004 , I had to be really careful to not just be ' the moderately blonde . ' So at the very beginning of my career , if I had n’t done Big Love , I was go to be Karen Smith . All the auditions I had for my first pilot season were just , like , blond girl friends . I was n’t going to be the lead , because for whatever reason I did n’t fit into that . I do n’t know what it was . "
At the time of its release , Mean Girlsmarked Seyfried ’s film debut after being a serial publication steady onAs the World Turnsfor two class and appear in a handful of episodes ofAll My ChildrenandVeronica Mars . It ’s understandable Seyfried was concerned that the celluloid would result in her being typecast in a variety of exchangeable roles , despite the fact the writing did essay to extend deeper stratum to the typical democratic lady friend tropes seen in other teen comedies . Co - star Lacey Chabertwould become pop in the articulation acting field but eventually found herself likewise stereotype as she became the unofficial fagot of Hallmark Christmas moving picture , having star in 27 Hallmark Channel films to date , a deed of conveyance she has mirthfully embrace .
As she notes , Mean Girlswouldn’t be the end of a variety of pick for Seyfried in Hollywood as she asterisk in the acclaimed Bill Paxton - lead HBO dramaBig Love , helping break her away from the " pretty blonde " original . Seyfried has since extend on to receive rave reviews in a bit of high-pitched - visibility projects , let in the hitMamma Mia!film franchise , for which she ’s hopeful to return to , the cult classic horror - comedyJennifer ’s Body , David Fincher’sMank , for which she scored both an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination , andHulu’sThe Dropoutlimited series . consultation can revisit Seyfried ’s film debut withMean Girlsavailable to rain cats and dogs on Paramount+ now .
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author : Variety
