When requested if she would go back to the sector of “Mean Girls” in a sequel or long run tasks, Ana Gasteyer eagerly showed that she would. She then mentioned what makes the 2004 function movie nonetheless so fashionable within the 2020s.
“It is a piece of masterful writing,” Gasteyer stated. “Mean Girls” is not only a humorous script written via Fey; it is usually a script in part impressed via the e book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” which dissects highschool cliques, in addition to the competitive habits youngster women can interact in. “I be mindful when Tina [Fey] optioned the e book, it was once ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes,’ and it was once … an anthropological find out about or a mental find out about of staff dynamics.”
Whilst “Mean Girls” stands the check of time partially as a result of its empirically grounded realism and humor, Gasteyer identifies one more reason why those dynamics discuss to the movie’s unique fanatics and new audiences. Despite the fact that rising up as of late differs in some ways from prior eras, dynamics have not modified that a lot.
“Up to we have now advanced, we’ve not,” Gasteyer stated, “and I feel that resonates for other people. Regardless of how we parse it, highschool — with social media [or] with out it; online, now not in particular person — building is building, and other people undergo stages. It can be advanced in a brand new roughly mutation, however there is a reason why that “Mean Girls’ works. It is superior.”
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