Lindsay Lohan explained why she originally wanted to play queen bee Regina George in "Mean Girls ."- "I wanted to have a different kind of role than just the 'damaged teenager' again," she said.
Lindsay Lohan recently told Vogue that she originally didn't want to play the role of Cady Heron in "Mean Girls," because she was tired of playing that type of role. She had another character in mind to play.
"I wanted to play Regina," Lohan said, referring to Regina George, the head of The Plastics, the most popular group of girls at North Shore High in Evanston, Illinois, who is played by
"I'd just come off of 'Freaky Friday,' and I really wanted to play a pretty normal girl now," Lohan explained. "I wanted to have a different kind of role than just the 'damaged teenager' again."
Luckily, the actor said that director Mark Waters was "insistent" that she was meant to play Cady. So was her costar Tina Fey, who also adapted "Mean Girls" from Rosalind Wiseman's book, "Queen Bees and Wannabees."
"They were like, 'no no no, you're the lovable one, you have to play Cady,'" Lohan recalled. She listened to them but admitted to Vogue that she was "so eager" to get to the other side of Cady's transition from an outcast into queen of the school.
Lohan, who was revisiting the most iconic looks of her career for Vogue, said that there was an upside to playing Cady in the beginning of the film, when she first transfers to Evanston.
"I remember doing the fittings for 'Mean Girls' and I would get really excited to wear the skirts and kind of dress more girly," she said. "But then I felt really relieved when I played Cady just coming fresh out of Africa because I got to chill and be more relaxed and everyone was kind of jealous that I was wearing sneakers and they couldn't every day."
Lohan has previously spoken about initially wanting to play Regina on multiple occasions. "I was still 17 years old and I wanted to be the cool girl on set," she told Entertainment Weekly in 2014.