‘Mean Girls’ cuts “fire crotch” joke from digital release after Lindsay Lohan was “hurt” by it
nme.comMean Girls has been removed from a new digital streaming version of the movie.As reported by Variety, an updated version of the new film on Amazon Prime Video has edited out a line referring to the phrase “fire crotch”, after Lindsay Lohan publicly said that she had been “hurt” by its inclusion.Directed by Arturo Perez Jr.
and Samantha Jayne, and written by Tina Fey, the revamped musical version of Mean Girls was released in cinemas last month.It is an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical, which itself is based on the original 2004 movie, also written by Fey.
Using the same plot, it follows socially naive teenager Cady Heron who, after moving back to the US from Africa, joins a new public school and soon becomes entangled with a “mean” group of girls known as the ‘Plastics’.Last month, Lohan said that she was “hurt and disappointed” by the joke in the film.
The term “fire crotch” is closely associated with a 2006 paparazzi video featuring Lohan, Paris Hilton and the socialite Brandon Davis.In the new film, Megan Thee Stallion, who plays herself, utters the line, “We are going back red, Y2K fire crotch is back”.
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