Lindsay Lohan has always had a lot of traction with the public, long before everything was searched on the internet. So it should come as no surprise that Paramount paid the actress handsomely to make a cameo in the new Mean Girls movie.
Some media say that Lohan, who became one of the biggest stars of young Hollywood after starring in the film of the same title in 2004, earned around $500,000 for half a day of work on the musical starring a new clique, led by Angourie Rice and Reneé Rapp. Paramount declined to comment, and a representative for Lohan declined a request for comment from Variety.
Lohan’s surprise entrance in the new film, written by Tina Fey, drew thunderous applause at the New York premiere. In her scene, Lohan returns to the math competition that served as the original’s denouement and provides a moment of coming full circle for the Mean Girls franchise, which also spawned a Broadway musical.
Like other studios, Paramount is banking on the nostalgia factor, courting members of the original cast to appear in small but pivotal roles in recent films like 2017’s Baywatch. For 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount brought back Val Kilmer to film an emotional scene as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, despite the difficulties, as the actor lost much of his ability to speak after battling throat cancer.
While Lohan plays neither a flashback version nor an older relative of her Mean Girls teenage alter ego Cady Heron, her scene offers a clever bridge between the past and present.
The new version of Mean Girls will hit theaters in Argentina on Thursday, February 1. And it will also be released in many more countries.
The musical film, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Pérez Jr., has already found its groove at the box office, achieving the number one spot over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with a gross of $33.2 million a year. Nacional level.
Paramount originally planned to release the $36 million film only at Paramount, but changed course after test screenings indicated there was still an appetite to see it on the big screen. Exit polls show the film attracting both Gen Z and the over-35 demographic, the latter buoyed by Lohan’s presence, which Paramount managed to keep under wraps until the film’s debut.
The new Mean Girls revolves around the high school dramas of Cady Heron (Rice) as she navigates the crowd ruled by Regina George (Rapp replaces Rachel McAdams, who did not return). Avantika Vandanapu and Bebe Wood round out the film’s main quartet, while Fey and Tim Meadows reprise their roles as a weary math teacher and a hapless principal, respectively.
Lohan took a break of more than a decade from studio films before returning with the Netflix romantic comedy Falling for Christmas in 2022. She will next be seen in Irish Wish, also on Netflix, which premieres on the 15th. of March.
