Amanda Seyfried Addresses Men’s Harassment After ‘Mean Girls’ Scene

Years after the premiere of the iconic “Mean Girls”, the actress Amanda Seyfried told during an interview with Marie Claire the harassment he suffered after a scene in the film. This is the moment when his character, Karenappears as a meteorologist and forecasts the weather by squeezing her own breasts.

“I was always very disgusted by it”she said. “I was about 18 years old. It was just disgusting”he added. seyfried said that as soon as the film premiered, it wasn’t very recognized, but that everything changed after the take went viral. Mostly by boys, who asked her if it was raining.

This was one of the factors that made the actress decide on the lifestyle she would like to have: living in a big city, like New York or Los Angeles, or living on a farm away from everyone else. The other was fame. “It must make you feel completely insecure in the world. I see these younger actors who think they need to be safe. They think they have to have an assistant. They think their whole world has changed. It can get stressful. I’ve seen this happen with my colleagues. So I bought a farm. I was like, let’s go in the opposite direction”he explained.

“Mean Girls” was released in 2004, and marked with its iconic moments that endure to this day, such as “on Wednesdays we wear pink”. In the plot, the teenager Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to suburban America, the young woman begins attending public school and receives a quick introduction to the popularity laws that divide her peers. Unintentionally, she ends up in the middle of an elite group of students dubbed “the mighty ones”, formed by Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) and Karen (seyfried).

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