Before ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Spamalot,’ this was Jonathan Bennett’s first NYC job
nypost.comdesigner clothing store, Jeffrey.“And then I realized it was too boring. I couldn’t do it.”He then worked at the Mercer Hotel in SoHo as a bellboy “for a hot second.”“And then I booked my first commercial, which was a Playtex tampon commercial, and I shot it on Coney Island on the roller coaster,” said Bennett, who now stars in Broadway’s “Spamalot,” which runs until April 7 at the St.
James Theatre.The Rossford, Ohio native dropped out of college to pursue acting — and his breakthrough came in the 2004 cult classic “Mean Girls,” playing Lindsay Lohan’s crush, Aaron Samuels.He still keeps in touch with Lohan, and sent his former co-star well wishes after the birth of her son last year. “I check in with Lindsay every once in a while,” he said. “I congratulated her on her baby.
Yeah, we stay in touch here and there.”The actor said the “Mean Girls” cast, which included Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried, could have never imagined how popular the film — which inspired a Broadway musical of the same name and a second film — would one day become.“We were a bunch of kids in Canada shooting a movie … we didn’t realize what we were filming at the time,” he said.“We knew it was funny, but we didn’t realize what it was going to be.”Although he made a career on screen, Bennett never got to fulfill his lifelong dream of being on Broadway until this January, when he landed the part of Sir Robin in the musical based on the 1975 classic comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The emotional video of the actor breaking the news to his husband, reality TV star and actor Jaymes Vaughan, received 1.7 million views on Bennett’s TikTok page — but Bennett said it was originally meant for their eyes only.“I was like, ‘You know what?
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