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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Regina George Herself, Rachel McAdams, Reveals She Almost Played a Very Different Character in Mean Girls · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Out of all the movies this century, Mean Girls made
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest impacts on pop culture.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the catchphrase, the memes, even the term mean girls
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  Speaker 3: is still used to this day.
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  Speaker 4: And the cast is so iconic. It blows my mind
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  Speaker 4: to think Regina George was basically almost Katie Heron instead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Rachel McAdams, who famously played Regina aka the meanest
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  Speaker 2: of the mean Girls, told people she was initially brought
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  Speaker 2: in to audition for Caddie the Hero.
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  Speaker 3: Which of course eventually went to Lindsay Lohan instead, but
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  Speaker 3: Rachel was savvy enough to know that she was not
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  Speaker 3: getting that part. She was a self described nobody just
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  Speaker 3: getting her career going, so she was like, there's no
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  Speaker 3: way that I'm getting this lead.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and she was also twenty five at the time
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  Speaker 4: and Lindsay was seventeen, but that ended up working in
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  Speaker 4: her favor. The director told her that you're too old
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  Speaker 4: to play Katie, but Regina is an alpha, so it
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  Speaker 4: made sense to cast somebody more mature and intimidating and
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  Speaker 4: I totally see that in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Mean Girls in the NOPO were released within a
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  Speaker 2: two month window cementing Rachel as a leading star. Her
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  Speaker 2: latest send Help is in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.