Mean Girls_ Reneé Rapp REACTS to Rachel McAdams' Supportive Message (Exclusive)

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00:00 This is kind of a full circle moment

00:01 'cause you actually broke the news

00:02 that you got cast as Regina with the NET.

00:05 And I asked you,

00:07 what do you think Rachel McAdams' reaction will be?

00:09 Do you remember what you said?

00:10 - Oh my God.

00:11 - Mommy, I love her.

00:13 I love you, mommy.

00:14 In a respectful way.

00:15 - Yeah, mommy.

00:16 - Well, I phoned in a favor and we got her reaction for ya.

00:19 - What message would you give to the new Regina George?

00:21 - Oh my gosh, I don't think she can do any wrong.

00:24 She is amazing, you know?

00:26 And she's already got me beat with that voice.

00:30 So I'm just excited to see her incarnation

00:35 and it's such a great character.

00:36 It's so much fun to play.

00:38 So I hope she has a great time with it

00:40 and I can't wait to see it.

00:42 - She's so cool. - This is crazy.

00:42 - Come on.

00:43 - She's so cool.

00:45 She's so sick.

00:45 I saw this and I was so geeked.

00:48 - Oh, you did see it?

00:48 - Yeah. - Okay.

00:49 - Oh my God, I love her.

00:50 - I love it.

00:51 - Yeah, thank you.

00:52 You've got to Google Alet on her name.

00:54 - Alet, yes.

00:55 - My grandma sent it to me actually.

00:56 - Oh, of course.

00:57 I bet they're so proud of you.

00:58 - My grandma's so honest.

00:59 - We as women have to be able to support each other.

01:02 - Get in, loser.

01:03 - Get in, loser.

01:05 We're going shopping.

01:07 - Did either of you reach out to the OG cast members

01:09 for any advice?

01:10 - One of the most special things for me

01:12 was hearing Tina's memories from filming the 2004 movie

01:17 and asking her about what that was like

01:20 and then her telling us about it

01:22 and how that they didn't know what they were making

01:25 at the time and then sort of after the fact,

01:27 it like blew up. - It became a thing.

01:28 - Right, yeah.

01:29 - Shut up.

01:31 Shut up.

01:35 I didn't say anything.

01:36 - I want to know what your early memories are

01:37 of the OG Mean Girls because I'm sorry,

01:40 but y'all were toddlers in 2004, you know?

01:42 (laughing)

01:43 - Yeah, I was six.

01:44 - You were, okay.

01:45 So you remember me?

01:46 - Like post-toddler, no.

01:47 No, I don't remember when I first saw it.

01:49 - No?

01:49 - We were sort of all talking about it earlier.

01:51 It's like just always been around.

01:52 - It's just always on, isn't it?

01:53 - Yeah, my family, we had a little portable DVD player

01:56 and Mean Girls was one of the DVDs that we owned,

01:59 so I watched it over and over again

02:02 from about 2005 to 2009.

02:05 It was on rotation.

02:06 - There's a photo of me watching it.

02:08 So probably the first time,

02:10 'cause it was when I was four,

02:11 so and it came out in 2004.

02:13 Yeah, there's a picture of me in like a brown cowboy hat

02:18 and it's ridiculous.

02:20 Do you know what picture I'm talking?

02:21 - Yeah, I've seen it.

02:23 - I'll show 'cause it's quite funny

02:25 and I'm in an all like gray outfit

02:27 and I have like a stain on my shirt, huge,

02:30 and like big like sunglasses.

02:33 - That's how you're watching Mean Girls, huh?

02:34 - I guess.

02:36 I guess, I don't know.

02:37 Like Lindsay Lohan is in the background.

02:39 I was just serving.

02:42 - I believe it and I just love that there's photographic

02:44 evidence like of this moment.

02:45 - I know, it's very sus.

02:45 - I love it, it's awesome.

02:47 - Do you like gum?

02:50 - Sure.

02:51 - Oh no, I don't have any.

02:52 I was just.

02:53 - You're a mess.

02:54 - And Gary, how does it feel to be the ones

02:56 carrying on the legacy in this new form of the movie?

02:59 - I mean, yeah, there's a lot of pressure

03:01 because there are so many fans of the 2004 movie

03:05 and the musical and I am one of them.

03:08 So you know, you don't wanna let the fans down,

03:10 you also don't wanna let yourself down.

03:12 So it feels very important

03:13 and it feels like a big responsibility,

03:15 but it was something that I really wanted to do.

03:18 I mean, who says no to an opportunity like this,

03:21 to work with Tina Fey, to work with the music team,

03:25 to work with the directors.

03:26 So it was sort of, the fear didn't overcome me enough

03:31 to say no.

03:32 - It's one of those things that I feel like

03:33 you have to say yes, right?

03:34 Like this is "Mean Girls", right?

03:35 - Absolutely, yeah.

03:36 - And you know, obviously us fans,

03:39 we don't know what to expect, right?

03:41 'Cause it's not exactly a 2004 reboot,

03:43 it's not exactly a film version of the Broadway musical.

03:46 So Chris, how are you describing "Mean Girls"?

03:49 - It's sort of all of it, you know?

03:51 It's obviously story-wise similar,

03:56 like you sort of know where it's gonna go.

03:59 It's not--

04:00 - Surprise.

04:01 - Yeah, yeah, and you wouldn't, I don't think,

04:02 want it to be.

04:03 - No.

04:05 - But the path it takes is so different

04:09 and it takes influence from all these places

04:11 and it pays homage in the way it should,

04:14 but not like too much.

04:15 And it's still, these characters live in their own universe

04:18 and have their own lives.

04:20 - We're gonna make her pay.

04:21 [upbeat music]

04:24 - All we've done is make Regina hotter

04:26 and revive the wet look.

04:27 - Desperate.

04:28 - But there will be music, right?

04:29 [laughing]

04:30 - There will be music.

04:31 - 'Cause I know a lot of fans are concerned about that

04:33 when they saw the trailer.

04:34 I mean, what message do you have for those fans

04:36 who are like, "Where are the songs at?

04:37 "They're in it."

04:39 - I mean, they're--

04:39 - It wasn't even mixed yet.

04:40 - We did them.

04:41 - You did them?

04:42 - We did them.

04:43 - You did them?

04:44 - Yeah, they're in it.

04:44 - They're in it.

04:45 - Okay, I love it.

04:46 - You just have to watch it to see.

04:47 - Yeah.

04:48 ♪ My name is Regina George ♪

04:50 ♪ Just in case you're keeping score ♪

04:53 ♪ Katie Maye, I've won the battle ♪

04:55 ♪ But I will win more ♪

04:57 - Renee, of course, you played Regina on Broadway.

05:00 But from the trailer alone, I could tell

05:01 this is still like a new age of Regina George,

05:04 even though you played her before.

05:05 So how important was it for you

05:06 to put your Renee spin on Regina?

05:09 - I mean, I feel like

05:11 it was.

05:15 However, I also think the way that I approach things

05:18 or look at things is kind of like a lack thereof.

05:21 I don't really, I try not to think too much into something.

05:24 I try to just do it and do it how I feel

05:28 like I'm gonna say it in that moment.

05:29 'Cause the second I start to overthink,

05:31 then I start to kind of be something

05:34 that I'm authentically not.

05:36 And that's not what I wanted for this.

05:39 It's also not where I'm at in my life at the moment.

05:42 I quite like where I'm at mentally.

05:45 So I think obviously it's very different

05:47 'cause when I was doing it on Broadway,

05:48 I was 18, 19, and now I'm 23, 24.

05:51 So I'm a different person.

05:53 I wear myself different.

05:55 I wear my characteristics differently.

05:58 I've rid myself of certain insecurities,

06:01 and I got a whole new batch, fresh the (beep) in.

06:04 So I'm a different person,

06:08 but I also think a cinematic medium

06:12 is more catered to the acting that I like to do.

06:16 - I love that.

06:16 - I like the intimacy,

06:18 and I like the nuance that you don't necessarily get on stage.

06:23 (upbeat music)

06:26 - Katie pushed her.

06:29 - Regina really should be lifting through her glutes.

06:31 - Yeah, what do you guys want fans to know

06:33 about what you have cooked up here

06:35 with this latest version of the film?

06:36 And what are you most proud of?

06:38 Like, what are you gonna take away

06:39 from this experience for yourselves?

06:41 - I mean, for me,

06:43 one of the huge reasons why I took this job

06:46 is because I really wanted to be in a musical

06:48 'cause I love musicals.

06:49 So for me, it was a really,

06:52 you know, it was scary to step into this new space

06:55 and to challenge myself in this way,

06:57 but nothing sort of beat the feeling

07:00 of like doing a musical number

07:02 and it actually being real

07:03 and not just like in my bedroom.

07:05 Like that feeling was so amazing.

07:08 - So it was like a dream come true.

07:09 Like in a sense, you come to life.

07:10 - Oh, literally.

07:11 I mean, like when I was a kid,

07:12 I would just choreograph dances and songs in my bedroom

07:15 and like, you know, pretend I was in a musical.

07:17 Like, I just, I just loved it.

07:18 - You too, Chris, right?

07:19 Is that what you did?

07:20 (laughing)

07:21 Is that what you were doing?

07:22 - We did it to "Crazy Frog" though.

07:24 You guys remember that?

07:24 - "Crazy Frog"?

07:25 I loved "Crazy Frog."

07:27 - You got it, you know it.

07:27 - Great, (beep) it.

07:28 - Yeah.

07:29 (upbeat music)

07:32 - You should sing it.

07:35 - I couldn't do that.

07:36 (laughing)

07:37 No, it was like, it's like techno beats,

07:39 but like for kids,

07:40 like as a frog or something.

07:42 I don't know.

07:42 - Yeah, oh, cool.

07:43 - Yeah, sing.

07:44 - Rene, what do you want fans to know

07:45 about what you guys have in store for us?

07:47 - I think what is very, very, very cool

07:50 is it's a good group of people.

07:55 It's a really good group of people.

07:56 Very important.

07:58 I think that like always translates

08:01 and it's also like really important to me.

08:03 Like I like really like cherish the like relationships

08:08 and friendships and like moments

08:10 that like we share it on set and off.

08:13 Like I get excited when I get to like see everybody

08:15 and like come and do like press days.

08:17 - I was gonna say, it's like this fun.

08:18 - Yeah.

08:19 - I could tell.

08:19 - Yeah, it's nice.

08:20 It's really nice.

08:21 (upbeat music)

08:22 - Look at this thing.

08:24 - I can't even see it.

08:25 - Sexy, like a face breath.

08:26 (upbeat music)

08:29 (chimes)

08:31 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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