Mean Girls has become a classic film with a cult-like following of people who love to recite its many jokes and pop culture references. However, there’s a certain scene that Mean Girls star Amanda Seyfried was in that she said elicited “gross” responses from mainly male fans.
While speaking with Marie Claire, Seyfried explained that the line comes from a scene in the movie where her character Karen Smith thinks she can predict the weather by holding her breasts. Seyfried talked about male fans approaching her after the film was released in 2004 and asking her if it was raining, in reference to the scene.
“I always felt really grossed out by that,” Seyfried said. “I was like 18 years old. It was just gross.”
Seyfried added that she thinks it “must really fucking suck” to be young and famous because it strips people of their youth.
“I think being really famous [young] must really fucking suck,” she explained. “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.”
When talking about the legacy of Mean Girls and her involvement with it, Seyfried also told Variety that she’s glad she was able to play other serious roles, like in Big Love, because it helped her break away from the Karen Smith character.
“At the very beginning of my career, if I hadn’t done Big Love, I was going to be Karen Smith,” Seyfried said. “All the auditions I had for my first pilot season were just, like, blonde girl friends. I wasn’t going to be the lead, because for whatever reason I didn’t fit into that. I don’t know what it was.”
