Harry Styles was considered for a role in ‘Mean Girls’ reboot
nme.comMean Girls reboot have revealed that they considered asking Harry Styles to play a key role in the new film.Directed by Arturo Perez Jr.
and Samantha Jayne, and written by Tina Fey, the revamped musical version of Mean Girls was released in UK cinemas on Friday (January 12).The new film is an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical, which itself is based on the original 2004 movie that is also written by Fey.
Using the same plot, it follows socially naive teenager Cady Heron who, after moving back to the US from Africa, joins a new public school and soon becomes entangled with a “mean” group of girls known as the ‘Plastics’.In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the directors said they’d considered asking Styles to play the iconic role of Glen Coco in the film.Jayne explained: “There’s certain comedy that that flew and was funny 20 years ago, that just doesn’t fly today.
We all knew that. But there are certain iconic lines where we would joke that there would be riots in the streets if it wasn’t in there.
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