Amanda Seyfried talks about her infamous weather report scene from Mean Girls and how the male fan reaction was gross to her.
In an interview with Marie Claire, Amanda Seyfried talked about how the male reaction to her weather report scene in Mean Girls grossed her out after the movie was released.
“Back when the movie came out, Seyfried says she was recognized every once in a while. Mostly boys asking her if it was raining—her character, Karen, could predict the weather with her breasts.”
“I always felt really grossed out by that,” Seyfried told Marie Claire in a cover story. “I was like 18 years old. It was just gross.”
Seyfried also talked about her views on handling fame at a young age.
“I think being really famous [young] must really fucking suck,” Seyfried said. “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.”
Milly Bobby Brown also spoke on the issue during a podcast earlier this year.
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“It’s a very good representation of what’s going on in the world and how young girls are sexualized,” Brown said during the “Guilty Feminist” podcast. “Any 18 year old is dealing with navigating being an adult and having relationships and friendships and being liked and trying to fit in.”
Brown continued, “It’s all a lot, and you’re trying to find yourself while doing that. The only difference is that, obviously, I’m doing that in the public eye, so it can be really overwhelming.”
Amanda Seyfried continued to talk about what is going on in her current life and how her Oscar nomination and her role in The Dropout will affect her as she moves forward.
“I got the call about The Dropout the day I got nominated,” Seyfried says. “Not a coincidence. I knew where that was coming from and I was fucking grateful.”
“Amanda’s casting saved the project in this amazing way,” says the show’s creator, Liz Meriwether. “She’s just one of those few actresses that I’ve always known could do comedy and drama. She’d done a ton of work before we even got to the first rehearsals. At the first rehearsal, she had that voice; she had those mannerisms.”
“The look was as essential as knowing how to do the voice,” Seyfried says. “I get it. [Holmes didn’t] want to waste time on how she looks. There’s a certain appreciation or acceptance of how she looks. She accepts it and enhances it slightly and then goes about her day. I don’t love wearing a lot of makeup [either].”
“I’m not being told much because she’s smart… but …I was told she wasn’t gonna watch it, that it was bad news, and that she didn’t want any part of it,” Seyfried says, without elaborating on the back channels by which she was hearing this. “I don’t know if it’s totally true. Who knows? I’m a little skeptical of any information that comes my way.”
