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Avantika, who plays Karen, wasn't even born when the original movie came out in 2004. She said she didn't watch the movie until years later when she was seven years old.
"They needed me to sing 16 bars and I was like, 'I don't wanna do that to casting, they go through enough.'"
“When did we ever think that someone Brown was going to play an iteration of a character who's known for being blonde and pretty and stupid? It's the antithesis of everything that we've been told our community is from the very beginning. And while nobody wants to be called dumb, there's something liberating in feeling like there's no expectation around our intelligence anymore,” she told Marie Claire.
She joked that she actually doesn't know how to do needlepoint though.
And because they had access to the entire school building, the actors' dressing rooms were inside classrooms that weren't used for filming.
She said the first time she even watched the movie was when she was seven years old and became such a huge fan that she and her friends quoted it regularly.
She had this same process when first writing the 2004 movie, and added that was part of the reason she came up with Gretchen's obsession with making "fetch" happen.
"I was writing in the early 2000s very much based on my experience as a teen in the late ’80s. It’s come to no one’s surprise that jokes have changed," she told the New York Times. "You don’t poke in the way that you used to poke. Even if your intention was always the same, it’s just not how you do it anymore, which is fine. I very much believe that you can find new ways to do jokes with less accidental shrapnel sideways."
In the 2004 movie, right as Janis is about to trust fall Regina makes a remark saying, "Oh my God, it’s her dream come true: diving into a huge pile of girls." Tina said, "It was mine and [director] Sam Jayne’s feeling that Regina wouldn’t try that now because she knows the kids around her would be like, 'That’s homophobic.' She would know not to be homophobic, and hopefully, truly would not be homophobic."
They were very adamant that it should stay a physical book.
He's best known as playing Conrad Fisher in the The Summer I Turned Pretty TV adaptation.
"I saw Jon Hamm crossing the field when he was done," he said. "But I got to meet him later at the US Open, which was dope."
Fans even think that her playing the French teacher was a nod to her starring role in the series Emily in Paris.
Auli'i was super starstruck when Lindsay came to set for her cameo in the movie. "I was SO starstruck at that woman," she said.