It has been seventeen years since Mean Girls was released in theaters, and now actress Amanda Seyfried has opened up about boys asking her a certain question related to the iconic movie…
As well as the pressures faced by young actors in today’s society.
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Everyone knows Amanda Seyfried from the popular chick flick Mean Girls where she played the role of Karen Smith.
It’s the role that lauded her for the rest of her career…
While it showcased some of the many classic stereotypes: popular girls, jocks, math nerds, and outcast scenarios…
Some scenes are truly unforgettable.
But where did it all begin for the actress?
Well, Seyfried started her career when she was just eleven years old, modeling for clothing companies such as Leighton Meester and Limited Too.
She then was seen on the cover of the novel series Sweet Valley High.
But her first acting gig was an extra on the soap opera Guiding Light.
Until her real acting experience came when she landed the role of Lucy Montgomery in the soap opera As the World Turns. Seyfried then moved on to another soap, All My Children, where she played Joni Stafford for 2 years.
While that role came to an end, Seyfried auditioned to be a ‘Plastic’ in the movie Mean Girls.
It’s worth noting that she was auditioned to be the lead Plastic, Regina George, a role that eventually went to Rachel McAdams.
Reportedly, the producers of the movie then considered her to play the lead Cady Heron. But Lindsey Lohan eventually won that role.
They finally decided Amanda Seyfried would play the air-headed Plastic Karen Smith.
Notably, the movie garnered heaps of attention and gained a whopping $24.4 million on its opening weekend.
Seyfried auditioned and was heavily considered as Veronica Mars, but again, the role was given to another actress, this time it was Kristen Bell.
But her career was just beginning, as during her time on Veronica Mars, Seyfried was also seen on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, House, Wildfire, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Justice.
She also was seen in the features Nine Lives, American Gun, and Alpha Dog.
Seyfried was gaining prominence slowly but surely, and even bagged her first lead role in the musical Mamma Mia! next to Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, and Pierce Brosnan.
What an achievement we say!
The movie, which featured the music of ABBA, was a huge hit and Seyfried was able to show off her singing talent, which was released on the movie’s soundtrack.
The actress recorded 5 songs for the hit album.
With the success of Mamma Mia!, Seyfried was able to focus mainly on feature films, which included Boogie Woogie, followed by the Megan Fox horror film Jennifer’s Body, Chloe, Dear John, Letters to Juliet, and even Red Riding Hood.
And while her professional career was blossoming so was her personal life.
In May 2015, Seyfried met Thomas Sadoski on the set of a play in New York, The Way We Get By.
The pair continued attending press events for their play, appearing on red carpets together and even bagged a movie together The Last Word.
It was no surprise when the duo announced their engagement in November 2016…
And in March 2017, Seyfried showcased her baby bump at the movie premier of their movie, The Last Word.
She gave birth to a baby girl, who she named Nina.
Seyfried and Sadoski then got secretly hitched…
Sadoski told James Cordon on The Late Late Show: “We eloped. We just took off into the country with an officiant and just the two of us, and we did our thing. It was everything that it should be. It was just the two of us talking to each other.”
But that’s not all…
Seyfried admitted to Net-A-Porter that they first met on the sets of the play and both of them were in “bad relationships.”
She said that they were friends and, “never flirted, never disrespected his wife,” and she admitted it was another reason why she thought that she could marry him.
She also said that when their relationship both ended, Seyfried suggested that Sadoski should be her love interest in The Last Word, which is where their relationship blossomed.
“It was amazing. It felt healthy and freeing and clean. We can tell the story without any guilt,” Seyfried said.
Back in March 2020, Seyfried and Sadoski celebrated their 3-year wedding anniversary with some Instagram PDA.
“Happy 3, Tommy,” Amanda wrote. “Goat wrangling is far easier and way more fun when we do it together. 💞”
And then in September 2020, Seyfried announced the birth of her second child on Instagram, despite fans not knowing the actress was pregnant.
This time it was a boy!
Since then, people have been keen to know what the actress actually thought of her role in the iconic movie, Mean Girls.
And it looks like fans are in for a treat…
In an interview with Marie Claire, Seyfried opened up about life in a post-Mean Girls world.
She even confessed that one of the scenes wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience.
If you don’t know what we’re talking about let us just refresh your memory…
In the movie, there was one scene that involved a boy predicting the weather by touching her breasts.
“I always felt really grossed out by that,” she told the media outlet. “I was, like, 18 years old. It was just gross.”
Seyfried then opened up about her relationship with fame, telling the magazine that rain comments aside she preferred being just somewhat recognizable as a young actor.
“I think being really famous [young] must really f**king suck,” she said.
“It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world. I see these younger actors who think they have to have security. They think they have to have an assistant. They think their whole world has changed. It can get stressful. I’ve seen it happen to my peers. So I bought a farm. I was like, Let’s go in the opposite way,” Seyfried added.
What do you think?