Mean Girls
Summary
As she aims to take the reins of an iconic part , Mean Girlsstar Bebe Wood reflects on her reunion with Tina Fey after 11 years after30 Rock . The coming melodious serves as a reimagining of Fey ’s 2004 movie of the same name revolving around a teen missy learning of the societal hierarchy of high schooltime after being homeschooled for old age , particularly the harsh clique of fille make out as the Plastics . Spider - Man : No Way Home ’s Angourie Rice leadstheMean Girlscastalongside Reneé Rapp , Aulli’i Cravalho , Christopher Briney , Jaquel Spivey , Wood , Avantika , Fey , Tim Meadows , Jenna Fischer , Busy Philipps and Jon Hamm .
In honor of the movie ’s release , Screen Rantspoke with Wood to discuss the creation of 2024’sMean Girls . When postulate about reuniting with Fey 11 years after her first professional role in30 Rock , the Gretchen player sky-high praised the nine - time Emmy succeeder for inspiring her to go along act in her younger old age and express gratitude that Fey " took her chance on me " by casting her in the unexampled motion picture . Check out what Wood enounce below :
It ’s really incredible . I was approaching , or perhaps had already approached just past my ten - class milestone as a professional actor . So , it felt very apt , the timing of it . It ’s just kind of wild how it worked out that means . She was my very first scene partner as a professional role player , and I kind of found my own way into it . My parent did n’t press me toward entertainment . It was something that I kind of just want to do on my own .
I think if I had actually experience it and experienced it and make what it was and finger , " I do n’t think this is for me , " I do n’t think I would ’ve keep act . But she was just so incredible on that one day that we wreak together [ that ] I think I was altogether inspired . I was like , " I totally want to keep doing this . This is fun . " And I just start work more regularly after that . In a way , it ’s totally all because of her . She took her chance on me then and took her fortune on me now , so it ’s very special . It ’s very , very extra .
Tina Fey’s Comedy Career Has Helped Launch Many Stars Outside Of Mean Girls
While Lindsay Lohan was already a household name by the prison term the movie came out , Mean Girlswas a launchpadfor a number of its stars to become democratic histrion . Rachel McAdams would quickly follow up the 2004 comedy with celebrated turns inWedding Crashers , The Notebookand Wes Craven’sRed Eye , finally garnering an Oscar nominating address for 2016’sSpotlightand starring in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’sDoctor Strangemovies and animatedWhat If … ? . Amanda Seyfried likewise steadily rose through the Hollywood ranks after the high-pitched school drollery with the the like ofBig Love , theMamma Mia!movies and her Oscar - constitute carrying into action inMank .
Even outside ofMean little girl , Fey can be linked to the launching of many memorable names in the world of comedy with her projects.30 Rock , in exceptional , not only further found solid performing artist like Tracy Morgan to stardom after already being slightly bonk for prior projects , but saw Jack McBrayer become a popular name , survive on to star in the likes of theWreck - It Ralphmovies and Jerry Seinfeld ’s upcoming Pop - Tarts biopic . Some of the others to transgress out from the NBC sitcom have include Katrina Bowden , Scott Adsit and futureTed Lassocreator Jason Sudeikis .
With the newMean Girlscast featuring a wide array of vernal actors on the salary increase , let in Rice , who made a name for herself in both the MCU and Shane Black’sThe Nice Guys , it will be interesting to see if Fey has once again found a fashion to set up her performers to pause into the mainstream . Rapp has already bespeak a lack of a desire to continue move due to the anxiety of the manufacture , but with Cravalho steadily tackling more resilient - action work after her launching inMoanaand Briney fresh off the achiever ofPrime Video’sThe Summer I turn Pretty , their takes on Fey ’s iconic characters could very well be the springboard to popularity should the musical reach the same heights as its original .
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Cast
Mean Girls is a reimagining of the 2004 Greco-Roman comedy film as a melodious , conduct by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. When Cady Heron and her fellowship move from Africa to the United States ; she experiences a culture jar when she go in the public school organization for the first fourth dimension . While trying to fit in , she is roped into the pop but superficial and cruel ingroup , the Plastics .
