Amanda Seyfried says Blake Lively almost played her iconic 'Mean Girls' role

Actor Amanda Seyfried says Blake Lively almost lost playing the iconic character Karen Smith in 2004s Mean GirlsDuring a video interview with Vanity Fair published Wednesday Seyfried 37 said that she believes she was cast in the role because she played that person in high school in order to stay out of the drama before recalling the specifics of her audition reports peoplecomId first auditioned for Regina and Id flown out to LA for the first time with my mother It was very exciting Seyfried who was 17 at the time said of her first film role I met Gretchen Wieners actress Lacey Chabert for the first time and Lindsay Lohan was in the room and Blake Lively was playing Karen and then I was ReginaAlso read Pnk reveals Madonna invited her and Gwen Stefani to join in on 2003 VMAs kissI flew home and they were like You know what lets we think youre more correct for Karen so I was like Oh God okay sure she added of the casting process Mean Girls casting director Marci Liroff once told Cosmopolitan UK that while the production initially wanted Lively who had not yet rose to fame for 2005s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to play Karen producer Lorne Michaels ultimately suggested casting Seyfried in the roleLively came down to the final tests but at some point some of the filmmakers said to keep looking Liroff said during a 2019 interview with the outletAmanda Seyfried had read for Regina and we really liked her but then Lorne suggested Why dont we make her Karen A naive teenage girl named Cady Heron Lindsay Lohan was educated in Africa by her sceintist parents but when her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois Cady experiences the drama of a public school with The Plastics including Regina George Rachel McAdams Gretchen Wieners Lacey Chabert and Karen Smith Amanda Seyfried being the most popular girls in school Mean Girls released in 2004 will cross the 19 year mark this year and has developed a cult followingThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever