Rachel McAdams has revealed why she turned down an opportunity to reprise her Mean Girls role.
Fans of the teenage comedy film were thrilled when Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert - along with other stars from the film - reunited in advert for the US supermarket Walmart.
However, one notable absentee from the ad was McAdams, who played Regina George in the flick. She explained why in a new interview with Variety.
The Canadian actress, 45, shared: “I don’t know; I guess I wasn’t that excited about doing a commercial if I’m being totally honest.
“A movie sounded awesome, but I’ve never done commercials, and it just didn’t feel like my bag.”
The Notebook star also revealed that she didn’t know the rest of her former co-stars had all signed on for the commercial when she turned it down.
McAdams added: “Also…I didn’t know that everyone was doing it. I would, of course, always love to be part of a Mean Girls reunion and hang with my plastics, but yeah, I found that out later.”
Her comments come a month after the trailer for the remake of Mean Girls was released.
The film, which will be released in January 2024, is based on the stage musical Mean Girls – written by Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond, lyricist Nell Benjamin and director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw.
Fey also wrote the original 2004 film where Lohan starred as outsider Cady Heron who moves from Africa to an American high school.
She finds out that the school is ruled by a friend group called The Plastics, headed by Regina George.
In the the teaser, released by Paramount+, Honour Society star Angourie Rice stars as Cady, singer Renee Rapp as Regina and Love, Victor star Bebe Wood as Gretchen Wieners.
Fey, reprising her role as Ms Norbury, appears in the trailer to ask students to keep their language “PG-13” and appears to make an address to students, saying: “We as women we have to be able to support each other.”
The clip also teases the appearance of the Burn Book, which Regina uses in the original film to make fun of her classmates, and a romance between Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney) and Cady.
The cast also includes Mad Men star Jon Hamm as Coach Carr, the gym teacher, and Freaks And Geeks star Busy Philipps as Regina’s mother Mrs George.
When the musical opened on Broadway in 2018, it was a hit and has since embarked on two national tours.
The musical production will also open at the Savoy Theatre in London in June 2024.
