The cast of Mean Girls has reunited. Hold on to your pink T-shirts, though (OK, we know it’s not Wednesday, but still) because it was just for a one-off photoshoot for _Entertainment Weekl_y’s reunions special. All five of the main cast turned up – Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert – and posed, yes, in pink dresses to mark the 10 years since their teen film became a household name. They also gave an interview. So here are some things we’ve learned from the reunion-of-sorts:
The deep meanings behind Mean Girls were meant to be that deep
Tina, who wrote the film’s screenplay and plays Mrs Norbury, explains to the interviewer that her original idea was to ‘write a movie about what they call “relational aggression” among girls.’ The cool cars and cool clothes came later.
Lindsay and Tina wanted Lindsay to play Regina George
In the interview, she says: ‘I wanted to play Regina. I had just played – in Confessions and *Freaky – *not the cool girl in school. I was still 17 years old and I wanted to be the cool girl on set. So I had a war with [Mark Waters, the casting director], and he goes, “No, Cady is the heroine, and that’s who you are.” Then I sat in all the auditions. Amanda auditioned to play Regina as well. It ended up being Rachel, and she’s wonderful.’
But even Tina Fey wanted Lindsay to be the Queen Bee: ‘At some point I was like, “Oh, should Lindsay be Regina?” And then Mark and Lorne had the good sense to say, “No, she gets to turn into Regina.” You work backward from that and you cast her as Cady, knowing she could get to that point of being Regina, but you let her be the innocent side, too.’
Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert were the cast’s basics
While Lindsay was desperately Googling to find pink Ugg boots, and ‘rhinestoning my phone at the time with Swarovski crystals’, Amanda, fresh from high school, was hanging out with Lacey doing basic things: ‘She was my angel. She took me in, and we’d hang out in her trailer and listen to Dido… she taught me how to make pecan pie.’
Mariah Carey’s a fan
Lindsay shares a make-up artist with Mariah, the elusive chanteuse (her words not ours) and apparently, ‘Whenever I see her, she does always say, “On Wednesdays, I wear pink.” She loves that movie.’
The message of Mean Girls might have been a bit lost
The be-nice-to-people-or-get-hit-by-a-truck message of the film hasn’t really had the same enduring legacy as lines like, ‘Is butter a carb?’. Soon after pictures of Lindsay and Tina appeared, people were quick to turn them into memes based around how Lindsay looks, eg her face surrounded with slogans like ‘Don’t do drugs’. Maybe it’s time for Fey to bring out Mean Adults?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.