“I flew home, and they were like, ‘We think you’re more correct for Karen,’” Seyfried recalled.
“Mean Girls” star Amanda Seyfried, 37, revealed “Gossip Girl” actress Blake Lively, 35, almost claimed her role as Karen Smith — the weather-predicting airhead — in Tina Fey’s 2004 cult“I’d flown out to LA for the first time with my mother. It was very exciting,” Seyfried toldin an interview posted Wednesday. “I met Lacey Chabert for the first time, and Lindsay Lohan was in the room, and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and then I was Regina.
“I flew home, and they were like, ‘We think you’re more correct for Karen,’” the Pennsylvania native recalled. “So I was like, ‘Oh God, OK, sure.’”©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection, explaining, “She came down to the final tests but, at some point, some of the filmmakers said to keep looking.” Luckily for Lively, she faced no shortage of work and went on to star in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” its sequel, “Gossip Girl,” “Accepted” and “Simon Says,” among other projects.
Blake Lively attends the Michael Kors Collection Fall/Winter 2022 Runway Show at Terminal 5 on Feb. 15, 2022.Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert became more famous thanks to “Mean Girls.”While Seyfried’s presence in “Mean Girls” catapulted her to fame, the role also attracted some creepy male fans. The Emmy winner toldlast year that men would approach her and ask if it was raining, as her character Karen believed she could tell the forecast by holding her breasts.
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