Blake Lively Almost Played Karen in Mean Girls According to Amanda Seyfried

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as the lovably dim Karen in Mean Girls, but Seyfried says the part was this close to going to Blake Lively. Can you imagine Serena van der Woodsen talking about her and dressing in Juicy Couture?

Because I'm struggling. But it's true, according to Seyfried. “I’d flown out to L.A. for the first time with my mother. It was very exciting,” Seyfried told Vanity Fair about auditioning for the movie.

Seyfried was reading for the Regina George part, but the filmmakers had different ideas. “I met Lacey Chabert for the first time, and , and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and then I was Regina.” But instead, Seyfried explained, “I flew home, and they were like, ‘We think you’re more correct for Karen.' So I was like, ‘Oh god, OK, sure.'”Seyfried thinks she got the part because she was used to acting the part of peacemaker in her real high school life. “I think I got Karen because I played that person in high school in order to stay out of the drama,” she said.Mean Girls came out in 2004, which was before Lively starred in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005, and before the .

So it's not just Mean Girls that might have looked different had the filmmakers decided to cast Lively instead of Seyfried. "[Lively] came down to the final tests but, at some point, some of the filmmakers said to keep looking,” casting director Marci Liroff told in 2019. “Amanda Seyfried had read for Regina, and we really liked her, but then [film producer] Lorne [Michaels] suggested, ‘Why don’t we make her Karen?'”The rest, as they say, is history.By Abby GardnerBy Kathleen WalshBy Elizabeth LoganBy Carrie WittmerMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast.