Amanda Seyfried Reveals Blake Lively Almost Got Cast As Karen Smith In ‘Mean Girls’
etcanada.comBlake Lively almost made it into The Plastics. Amanda Seyfried spoke about playing Karen Smith in 2004’s “Mean Girls” in a new interview with Vanity Fair, revealing that Lively first auditioned for Karen and she went for the role of Regina George.
Rachel McAdams eventually ended up nabbing the part of Regina. Seyfried recalled, “I’d flown out to L.A. for the first time with my mother.
It was very exciting. “I met Lacey Chabert for the first time, and Lindsay Lohan was in the room, and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and then I was Regina.” “The Dropout” star went on, “I flew home, and they were like, ‘We think you’re more correct for Karen.’ “So I was like, ‘Oh god, OK, sure.’” READ MORE: Amanda Seyfried’s Critics Choice Awards Dress ‘Keeps Breaking’ On Her Seyfried said of playing the beloved character, “I think the reason we love Karen so much — and also the reason that she’s so funny — is that she is just being brutally honest, and it’s so beautiful, and it’s what makes her so endearing. “And she’s not that smart, but she totally knows it.
And everything that she reacts to is just her truth, her true reaction. And I think we all love people like that because we can trust them.” “She’s the person with the biggest heart,” Seyfried continued, adding of some of her most-loved scenes: “She truly believes that the best idea would be to go to Taco Bell and that her secret is that she is psychic and has a sports channel.
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