Fun Facts about Mean Girls:
1. Initially, Lindsay Lohan was cast as Regina, but decided to play the ânice girlâ so the public wouldnât base her real personality on Reginaâs.
2. Amanda Seyfried was initially supposed to play Cady, Lindsay Lohanâs part.
3. Tim Meadows broke his hand before shooting and had to wear a cast, so the explanation that his character Mr. Duvall had carpal tunnel was added.
4. In the scene where Cady was asked if her âmuffin was butteredâ, the line was originally going to be, âIs your cherry popped?â The same goes for the girl who âmade out with a hot dogâ this was going to be âmasturbated with a hot dogâ. These were omitted in order for the film to gain a PG 13+ rating instead of a R.
5. Ashley Tisdale auditioned for Karen Smith.
6. Lindsay Lohanâs character is named âCadyâ, which has a common pronunciation (âKatieâ) but an uncommon spelling for an American girlâs first name. In keeping with the filmâs theme of female empowerment, it is the same spelling of the birth last name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an 18th-century pioneer in the American Womenâs Rights movement.
7. In real life, Rachel McAdams is 8 years older than Lindsay Lohan, who plays her classmate, and only 7 years younger than Amy Poehler, who plays her mother.
8. When casting the film, Tina Fey picked Jonathan Bennett (Aaron Samuels) because he looked like Jimmy Fallon.
9. Mean Girls is based on the book âQueen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescenceâ by Rosalind Wiseman, even though it is a non-fiction parental self-help guide with no narrative at all.
10. Rachel McAdamsâ hair was a wig.
11. The skirts for the Christmas talent show were made of plastic; the costume designer says they were made of that fabric to ârepresent the Plasticsâ.
12. David Reale, a Canadian actor born 1984, was the man who played Glen Coco. Sadly, this crucial role was not credited in the movie.
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