Judy Greer Is Not Your Best Friend Anymore

glamour.com:

So many people called Judy Greer the “sidekick” that she almost believed she’d never play anything but. Name-calling is one of the oldest power-plays in the book: It’s just as cutting in the boardroom as it was on the playground, but since it never causes physical harm, it’s easily dismissed.

And while we know that words alone can’t hurt a person—it’s the person doing the name-calling that causes harm—anyone who’s been called a bitch or a slut (or stuck with any label she doesn’t identify with) understands just how damaging name-calling can be.

In , Glamour talks to some of the most interesting women we know about the role name-calling or labels played in their pasts—and how it’s shaped the women they are today.For much of her career, Judy Greer was the actor you called when you needed someone to shake your protagonist and say, “Go get your man!” She was there for witty one-liners and to bring over a comically large vat of iced cream when the perky brunette with main character energy got dumped.

From The Wedding Planner to 27 Dresses—with a mean girl pitstop in — was the quintessential of the early 2000s. The label was so prevalent that Greer even starred in a Funny or Die comedy sketch called Judy Greer Is the Best Friend, which told the story of what happens to a classic Greer character after she successfully encourages her BFF to chase the love of her life to the airport. “I guess I started to see myself as not deserving the lead roles or that the lead roles would never be written for someone like me, or I was missing something other actresses had,” Greer told Glamour.