Amanda Seyfried hopes “Mean Girls” haunts her for eternity, even in death

Amanda Seyfried is a Mean Girls die-hard, in every sense of the word.

The Oscar-nominated star, who played the adorably dim Karen Smith opposite Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, and Rachel McAdams in the 2004 Tina Fey-written teen comedy classic, recently appeared on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast to reflect on her career, and admitted that she hopes the insanely quotable move follows her for eternity.

Seyfried, 39, initially looked back on the "unadulterated fun" she had while making the movie at age 17, and said that "everybody was so nice" on the set — and that she formed lifelong friendships with her fellow cast and crew during production.

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"Then, it becomes a forever moment, a moment locked in time. A timeless film. Timeless humor," Seyfried said.

Horowitz observed, "Until the day you die, a 14-year-old girl will come up to you every day and quote you as if it just came out the day before" — a thought that excited Seyfried.

"I hope they quote it on my grave," Seyfried said. "That's an organic moment. It was, in many ways, a perfect movie, and people relate to it, still. It connected us, and it continues to. I will always be excited to talk about it."

She finished: "Any day, I'll honor that movie for what it did for me as a person."

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Following the movie's enduring success, Fey and the cast have long received questions about potentially continuing the film's story in a sequel, though nothing has materialized to date. Fey did, however, reprise her role as Ms. Norbury (and returned as a writer) for the 2024 musical movie based on the stage adaptation of Mean Girls, which also included a cameo from Lohan, who led the original movie as Cady Heron.

"Paramount was like, 'Can you get any of the original ladies? And I was like, 'I can't fit five people in,'" Fey previously told Entertainment Weekly of landing Lohan for the small role. "I felt like if I could only get one person as a surprise, the original movie is really Lindsay's movie. As great as they all are, she's the heart of that movie. And I thought, well, what could she do? I didn't think [she should] play a teacher. I was trying to think of something that you wouldn't expect. And just to have her do that late in the movie, it also feels like it comes, I hope, at a time where fans weren't expecting one more little surprise. It also lets her be smart, which Cady is."

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