San Diego Union-Tribune

Lohan turns out for ‘Mean Girls’ premiere

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She doesn't even go here, but Lindsay Lohan still joined the cast of the new “Mean Girls” at the musical film's premiere Monday night in New York.

Lohan, the star of the original 2004 film, reunited with Tina Fey — who wrote both the classic film, the Broadway show it inspired and this new adaptation — and posed with the new Cady Heron, Angourie Rice, on the pink carpet.

“It was an amazing movie to work on when I did it, and I can't wait to see this new iterative version of it. I think it's gonna be wonderful,” Lohan said.

Lohan said it “felt great” to hear of the movie's impact on teens over the years and was excited that the new film, which releases Friday, will deal with new topics.

“I loved Lindsay's performanc­e in the 2004 film so much, it's one of my favorites,” Rice said. “So in everything I did, I just hoped that my performanc­e would be adding to the legacy that she started.”

Just like the 2004 version, the musical movie follows Cady's move to the suburbs, where she experience­s the treacherou­s hierarchie­s of high school. There, she finds herself accepted by an elite yet shallow group of girls known as the Plastics, led by Regina George — here played by Reneé Rapp. It's billed as “a new twist from Tina Fey,” incorporat­ing songs and new technology, but Fey said the “core story” still resonates two decades later.

“In a way, things haven't changed that much, right? People have new ways to mess with each other, right? They can do it over the Internet, but it's still just human beings pulling someone else down to make themselves momentaril­y feel better, right?” she said.

In addition to Lohan, Fey, Rice and Rapp, the starry premiere featured actors from the new movie like Jon Hamm, Auli’i Cravalho and Busy Philipps, as well as directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. and producer Lorne Michaels. Megan Thee Stallion, who recently released the song “Not My Fault” with Rapp, and Fey's “30 Rock” co-star Jane Krakowski also turned out.

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