One ofLindsay Lohan’s most memorable roles was not her first choice.
The actress, 35, recalled her experience filming 2004’sMean Girlsin aVoguevideo releasedThursday, during which she reflects on her career.
“I had wanted to play Regina, because I’d just come off ofFreaky Friday, and I really wanted to play a pretty, normal girl now,” Lohan explained. “I wanted to have a different kind of role than just the damaged teenager again.”
Lohan continued, “Mark Waters, the director, was insistent that I play Cady, and so wasTina [Fey]. They’re like, ‘No, no, no, you’re the lovable one, you have to play Cady.’ "
“I was so eager to get into the transitional part of, ‘Okay, let’s get to the pretty part of Cady,’ " she toldVoguewhile looking back on her outfit for a party scene inMean Girl.
Lohan previously shared the story behind herMean Girlscasting while speaking toEntertainment Weeklyin 2014, marking the 10-year anniversary of the film. WhileRachel McAdamswas eventually cast as queen bee Regina George, Lohan said she had been vying for the role.
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“I had finishedFreaky Fridaynot long before with Mark Waters. I had gone to Toronto and I was doingConfessions of a Teenage Drama Queen,” Lohan toldEW. “Mark came out to scout locations forMean Girlsand came to see me at my hotel and said, ‘Do you wanna do this movie?’ "
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She continued, “I wanted to play Regina. I had just played — inConfessionsandFreaky— not the cool girl in school. I was still 17 years old and I wanted to be the cool girl on set. So I had a war with him, and he goes, ‘No, Cady is the heroine, and that’s who you are.’ "
Fey, 51, who wrote theMean Girlsscreenplay, toldEWat the time that she initially expected Lohan would play Regina.
“At some point, I was like ‘Oh, should Lindsay be Regina?’ And then Mark and Lorne [Michaels] had the good sense to say, ‘No, she gets to turn into Regina,’ " Fey recalled. “You work backward from that and you cast her as Cady, knowing she could get to that point of being Regina, but you let her be the innocent side too.”
source: people.com
