Kate Aurthur editorDuring a conversation between Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”) for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, presented by Amazon Studios, Kirby confessed her fandom. “I’ve loved you so much since ‘Mean Girls’ — it’s so iconic,” she said to Seyfried.“Mean Girls,” Seyfried told Kirby, was her first movie.
Before then, she’d done soap operas, most notably “As the World Turns.” “I only knew one very specific genre, one medium — that being, shooting an episode a day of a soap opera.
Just hitting my mark, and all these other bells and whistles that I had never seen before, it just felt really daunting and exciting.” Seyfried got the role in “Mean Girls” (2004) as the nice, clueless Karen at age 17.
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