Sixteen years old Cady Heron is shown to be homeschooled until high school. She joins North Shore High School. Here she meets Janis and Damian, who tells her about the queen bees of the school, The plastics. The plastics included Regina George- the manipulative and frightening group leader who was beautiful as well, Gretchen Weiners, whose father was the inventor of the toaster strudel, and so she was rich but insecure as well, and Karen Smith- the pretty and sweet but dumb member of the group. The plastics followed a set of rules that they followed, and if broken by any member of the group, they weren’t allowed to sit with the group during lunch. Janis asks Cady to help her in taking revenge on the plastics by pretending to be one of them. Cady agrees and gets on with the plan, but eventually, she starts to adopt some of The Plastics’ traits. This causes her friendship with Janis and Damian to break, and her crush Aaron leaving her. She later fixes everything by getting back to normal and gets together with Aaron at the end. She also gets her friends back. Even if you are a die-hard fan of the movie, we are sure there might be a few facts that you may be unaware of. We have combined these 10 facts for you to know more about the “so fetch” movie- Mean Girls.
1.Mean girls- a self-help book?
A self-help book for parents inspired mean girls. Mean girls are inspired by the book Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence. The book offers advice on how to help their daughters during adolescence.
2.Breaking the stereotypes
Tina Fey wanted to break stereotypes with the role of a math teacher. Fey was a maths teacher to break the stereotype that girls can’t do maths. She, however, did not understand Ms. Norbury’s lines and had trouble with them.
3.Damian and Daniel Franzese
Damian helped Daniel Franzese in getting courage. Damian was a character we laughed with instead of at. He was approached and thanked by grown men and thanked for being the role model for them. Even though his friends and family knew he was gay but he came out publicly about a decade later by writing a letter to Damian. He is always bombarded with the famous glen coco line, which sometimes annoys him.
4. Amanda Seyfried as Regina George.
Amanda Seyfried originally auditioned for the role of Regina George. She played it in an ethereal and more frightening way than Rachel McAdams. Amanda Seyfried loves her role as Karen and thinks she did a great job. Even though she thought that she was doing a terrible job earlier but looking back, she thinks it is one of her best parts. She almost played the role of Regina George even though she was more frightened but less intimidating.
5.The real Janis Ian
There is a real Janis Ian. Janis Ian won a grammy for “at seventeen,” which is about insecurities that come with being a teenager. She bonded over similar feelings with Janis Joplin. She was very protective of Ian.
6. The Movie was not so loved initially
Not everyone loved the movie when it was released Mean Girls is an iconic movie, but in 2004, not everyone thought so. Critics even hated the movie and said they wouldn’t recommend it.
7.Mean girls musical
Mean Girls was made into a broadway musical. Fey, her husband, and Nell Benjamin, a Tony award-nominated lyricist, created a broadway show of mean girls. It earned 12 Tony nominations and won a drama desk award.
8. Talks about the sequel
Tina Fey regretted saying no to a sequel. When mean girls was released, many people demanded a sequel; however, Tina Fey said they shouldn’t be doing it. There was no reason to say so that early, according to Tina, and she now feels that it has been too late for a sequel.
9.The mother-daughter age gap
Amy Poehler is only seven years older than Rachel McAdams, who plays her on-screen daughter. Amy Poehler, the actress that plays Regina George’s mother, is actually just seven years older than Rachel McAdams, the actress who plays Regina George. The designers and makeup artists had to figure out how to make her look like a mother who dresses like a teenager instead of making her look like a teenager.
10. Mean girls – an R-rated movie?
The originally scripted film earned an R-rating. Younger viewers would’ve been unable to see this classic film. Many jokes were removed in order to make the movie appropriate for a younger audience. The board wanted more changes, but the director managed to bring up similar jokes from other PG-13 movies.
