Why is everyone obsessed with 'Mean Girls'?

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When talking about ``Mean Girls,'' the splendor of the casting cannot be overlooked. Lindsay Lohan plays the main character: Kady. The film she starred in the previous year, ` `Fortune Cookie '' (2003) (directed by the same Mark Waters as this film), grossed more than $100 million at the US box office, and she suddenly became one of America's leading teen idols.

When director Waters approached Lohan to star in the role, Lohan was first interested in playing the role of school queen Regina. However, if Lohan were to become Regina, the director could not think of an actress who could stand up to her, and the president of Paramount said that casting Lohan, who had had success with Fortune , to play the villain would not work out well at the box office. After making this decision, Lohan herself began to realize that she did not want to be disliked by the audience by playing a mean girl, so she ended up playing the main character, Kady.

Rachel McAdams ("Regina" means "queen" in Latin, Italian, and Romanian) plays Regina, the leader of the most powerful girls' group at school, the Plastics, and the queen who reigns over the school. In contrast to her role as a young lady in " The Notebook " (2004), released in the same year, she happily plays a sociopathic high school student who believes that the world is for her. McAdams initially auditioned for the role of the main character, Kady, but Waters felt that McAdams was a little too old to play a high school student. When Lohan changed the role from Regina to Kady, he tried to match McAdams to Regina, and it made sense that the character looked precocious and mature, so he ultimately chose her for the role. By the way, the director used Alec Baldwin from " The Notebook " (1992) as a reference for creating the role of Regina.

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Amanda Seyfried, who is making her first film appearance, plays the role of Karen, who is extremely stupid but somehow has a hard-to-hate personality. Compared to the roles she played later, the silly character in this work may seem a little unusual. She was originally considered for the role of Regina, and Blake Lively was the frontrunner for the role of Karen. However, at the suggestion of producer Michaels, Seyfried was cast as Karen. Karen is known for her unique, whisper-like voice, a character Seyfried and the director created based on Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959).

Casting for the role of Gretchen was said to have been difficult, with newcomers Ashley Tisdale and Mary Elizabeth Winstead also being considered. In the end, she landed the role because of her work as an actor/voice actress, including the role of the second daughter in the drama ``Under the Sky of San Francisco'' and the voice of the main character in the anime ``Wild Thorn Berry's Movie'' (2002). Lacey Chabert. The audition theme at that time was a scene in which Gretchen explodes with emotion while reading a review of `` Julius Caesar .'' Her overwhelming performance led to her appointment.

In this way, the four people played classmates, but their actual ages vary. At the time of filming, Lohan and Seyfried were 17, Chabert was 21, and McAdams was 25, making her closer in age to Amy Poehler, who plays her mother, than Lohan.

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