Avantika, who plays Karen, wasn’t even born when the original movie came out in 2004.
She said she didn’t watch the movie until years later when she was seven years old.
Warning: There are MASSIVE spoilers for the 2024Mean Girlsahead!
Sheexplainedthat one day Tina sent her an email with the script attached.
Then, when he found out that Aaron didn’t have to sing he happily took the role.
7.Avantika said that she was super hopeful about landing the role of Karen when she firstauditioned.
So, one night the cast went into town together and played games for hours at a localarcade.
Another time, they all got together for an Oscars viewing party thrown by Bebe.
9.Auli’i Cravalho learned to play guitar to make it play Janis.
13.Avantika is about to turn 19 this month, and wasn’t evenbornwhen the 2004Mean Girlscame out.
Tina explained that all these years later Regina would know that anti-gay rhetoric “wouldn’t fly.”
18.She even asked her daughters and their friends their thoughts on casting Christopher as Aaron.
19.Christopher didn’t actuallymeetJon Hamm, who plays Coach Carr, on set.
At the time of filming, she was about seven months pregnant, too.
Mean Girlsis currently playing in theaters.
