Mean Girls star Rachel McAdams has defined why she turned down the chance to look in a latest reunion with the solid.
Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried all reprised their respective roles from the 2004 movie for a brand new Walmart advert, however McAdams’ Regina George was nowhere to be seen.
Explaining her choice to not seem within the advert, the Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret actress instructed Variety: “I don’t know. I assume I wasn’t that enthusiastic about doing a industrial if I’m being completely sincere.
“A film sounded superior, however I’ve by no means finished commercials, and it simply didn’t really feel like my bag. Also… I didn’t know that everybody was doing it. I might, after all, all the time like to be a part of a Mean Girls reunion and cling with my Plastics, however yeah, I discovered that out later.”
The advert noticed Lohan’s Cady Heron working as a steerage counsellor at North Shore High School, with Seyfried’s Karen Smith nonetheless working as a reporter and Chabert’s Gretchen Wieners nonetheless making an attempt/failing to deliver the phrase ‘fetch’ into well-liked utilization.
McAdams stated she was open to the thought of returning for Tina Fey’s film adaptation of the Mean Girls stage musical, but it surely wasn’t to be.
“Tina and I form of dabbled with a number of concepts, but it surely was powerful to make all of it work ultimately,” she defined. “I used to be actually down for no matter she wished to do. I feel the course it went in will likely be improbable and I can not wait to see it.”
The upcoming movie is predicated on the 2004 film and the 2018 Broadway musical, which had been each written by Fey. Reneé Rapp, who performed Regina within the stage adaptation, reprises her function within the movie, starring alongside Angourie Rice as Cady Heron, initially performed by Lindsay Lohan, and Auli’i Cravalho as Janis Ian.
Other solid members embrace Jaquel Spivey, Bebe Wood, Avantika Vandanapu, Jenna Fischer, Jon Hamm, Busy Philipps and Tim Meadows, who returns as Principal Duvall.
The first full-length trailer was launched in November. You can watch it right here.
Mean Girls is ready to be launched in cinemas on January 12, 2024.
