'Mean Girls' OG Cast Quotes About Possible Sequel

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‘Very Willing’

Amanda Seyfried shared her thoughts about a Mean Girls sequel in May 2014 with ExtraTv saying, “I don’t know what happened, I was very willing to pursue that.”

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‘Stop Trying To Make It Happen!’

Jonathon Bennett, who played Aaron Samuels, was very passionate about not reuniting with the Mean Girls cast in an interview with US Weekly in May 2015. “If anyone asks me one more time if there’s going to be a Mean Girls reunion, I’m going to kill someone,” said Bennett. “No! There’s not going to be a Mean Girls reunion! Stop trying to make it happen! It’s not going to happen!”

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‘Drum Up the Powers’

Daniel Franzese, who played Damien in the movie, tweeted in May 2016, “I feel like the number one reason to have Social Media is try to drum up the powers that be to make us a ‘Mean Girls’ sequel.”

After a fan asked what the actor thought Damien would be doing now, Daniel replied: “Drag race judge.”

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‘It’s in Their Hands’

Lindsay told Variety in January 2019, “If anyone has asked for this more than I have, please tell me. I’ve said it so many times, and so many people have asked me, and I think we’d have so much fun doing it,” she said. “Tina [Fey] and Lorne [Michaels] are so amazing, and to bring everyone back together would be great. Last time I was in New York, I went up to Lorne, and I was like, ‘Please!’ It’s in their hands.”

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‘Who Knows?’

Lacey Chabert, who played Gretchen Weiners, told Fox 5’s Good Day New York in October 2019 that she would “of course” revisit the classic character if given the chance.

“Gretchen is one of my most favorite characters I’ve ever had the opportunity to play, and I think to revisit where those women would be in their lives now would be really fun. Who knows?”

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‘Regina George Later in Life’

Rachel had previously spoken about her desire to play an older version of her iconic character, Regina George, during an appearance for the Heroes of Health: COVID-19 Stream-a-thon in April 2020. “I always want to go back and do all of them again. You really fall in love with them. I mean it would be fun to play Regina George later in life and see where life took her after Mean Girls,” McAdams said.

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‘Ultimate Dream’

Lindsay told the Daily Mail in April 2020 that she would say yes to a sequel, sharing, “To come back with a movie like that would be my dream, to be honest, because I haven’t done one in so long. That would be my ultimate.”

She also revealed that she’d spoken to the original film’s director, Mark Waters, adding that Rachel McAdams had previously said she was all in for sequel. “I think if I talked to Amanda [Seyfried] and I talked to Lacey [Chabert] and we kind of all could have a chat together, maybe we should do a Zoom call.”

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Where They Are Now!

Lacey told said that “it would be so much fun to see where these women are now,” while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in November 2022.

“If their kids are the new mean girls,” she added. “I would love to know what they’re doing. Tina [Fey], if you’re watching, yeah, let’s do it.”

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Movie Musical?

“I would kill just to do one week, all of us playing our own roles on Mean Girls on Broadway,” Amanda said in a November 2022 feature in Interview Magazine. “That would be really fun,” Lindsay added.

Amanda, who played Karen Smith, continued, “Because a Mean Girls 2 is never going to happen, is it?” to which her former costar responded, “I don’t know. I heard something about it being a movie musical and I was like, ‘Oh no. We can’t do that. It has to be the same tone.'”

The Mamma Mia actress agreed, noting that writer and star Tina Fey “is busy” but “she’ll get around to it.”

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Plans Have Stalled

According to a report posted by Page Six in February 2023, members of the original Mean Girls cast, including Lindsey, Rachel, Amanda and Lacey, all agreed to return for a sequel. However, those talks have since been stalled due to Paramount’s “disrespectful” money offer.

“Paramount Pictures doesn’t want to pay the girls what they are worth,” a source told the outlet. “All four girls were willing to come back, but Paramount has not been respectful of what they are worth.”

“As of now, the negotiations are stalled.” said the source.