Amanda Seyfried shares her first impression of Blake Lively during the Mean Girls audition

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And she’s had company Amanda Seyfried back when the two actresses auditioned mean girls. As The Dropout actress told E! Chief News Correspondent Celtic KnightShe recalled being impressed in the presence of stars Lacey Chabert And Lindsay Lohan at the audition – and was impressed when he first met Blake.

Amanda tried for Regina George, although it ultimately worked Rachel McAdams. Blake, on the other hand, went for the role of Karen Smith, which ultimately went to Amanda.

“I was in the room with Lacey and Lindsay and Blake, and I knew Lindsay and Lacey from their movies and TV,” Amanda recalled on February 26, 2023 SAG Awards“and I was just like, ‘Oh my God. What should I do? I don’t belong here because I flew in from Pennsylvania or whatever.’”

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What was your first impression of Blake? Amanda remarked, “Blake, I didn’t know her, but I remember thinking she was so gorgeous and I was like, ‘She’s the perfect Karen.’ Because I was Regina in the room, but things happen.”

Although the two ended up in different places, Blake played the lead role Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and later gossip Girlthey’ve both had stellar careers since then.

“We’re all living our best lives,” Amanda added, “which is amazing to be able to say.”

Except for meeting Blake, the mean girls The auditioning experience was also a series of firsts for Amanda, who narrated it vanity fair in February around the moment she found out about it She was cast in the film.

“I flew to LA with my mom for the first time. It was very exciting,” she said in a Feb. 22 interview. “I first met Lacey Chabert and Lindsay Lohan was in the room and Blake Lively played Karen, and then I was Regina. I flew home and they said … ‘We think you’re more right for Karen. ‘ So I was like, ‘Oh God, OK, sure.'”

The story goes on

what has changed mean girls casting director Marc Liroff announced in 2021 that it was a producer Lorne Michaels– the creator of Saturday night live– who suggested the idea.

“Amanda Seyfried read for Regina and we really liked her,” Marci said Cosmopolitan Britain at the time, “but then Lorne suggested, ‘Why don’t we make her Karen?'”

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