Lindsay Lohan.Photo:John Nacion/Getty
John Nacion/Getty
A line ofMean Girlsdialogue thatLindsay Lohantook issue with has been removed from the at-home version.
The original reference is an apparent nod to a 2006 paparazzi video in whichBrandon Davisreferred to Lohan, now 37, as a “fire crotch.” Lohan played Cady in the original film, and sheshows up for a cameo in the movie musical.
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Fey toldEntertainment Weeklyabout making Lohan’s surprise cameo happen.
“Paramount was like, ‘Can you get any of the original ladies? And I was like, ‘I can’t fit five people in.’ I felt like if I could only get one person as a surprise, the original movie is really Lindsay’s movie,” said Fey. “As great as they all are, she’s the heart of that movie.”
“And I thought, well, what could she do? I didn’t think [she should] play a teacher. I was trying to think of something that you wouldn’t expect,” she continued. “And just to have her do that late in the movie, it also feels like it comes, I hope, at a time where fans weren’t expecting one more little surprise. It also lets her be smart, which Cady is.”
Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan at the premiere ofMean Girlsin New York City on Jan. 8, 2024.Kristina Bumphrey/getty
Kristina Bumphrey/getty
Fey also toldThe New York Timesabout eliminating some jokes from the newMean Girlsafter the dialogue proved problematic in the nearly 20 years since the original movie hit theaters.
“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 said. “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.”
Added theSaturday Night Livealum, “I very much believe that you can find new ways to do jokes with less accidental shrapnel sideways.”
source: people.com
