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"Tina Fey Did Not Know October 3rd Was a Thing "
Gayety
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1/25/2024
Dive into the Mean Girls comeback! Tina Fey reveals the timeless magic, unexpected lines, and the talented cast bringing authenticity to 2024.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how fetch are you feeling?
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Today? Oh my gosh, I'm feeling a solid 8.
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I'm feeling like a solid 8 today, yeah.
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Amazing! So I know that everyone knows Mean Girls.
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We've all been anticipating this comeback.
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And I love that it really feels new and fresh,
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but at the same time, you know, you're still getting all the nostalgia.
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So I just wanted to ask, what makes Mean Girls so timeless?
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I think the relationships and the kind of journey that Katie goes on of like,
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"Oh, I came to a new place. I didn't know anyone. I made some huge mistakes.
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And now I have to kind of undo them." I think it's a very relatable human story.
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I think Regina George, you know, very much because of Rachel McAdams' original performance,
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Regina George is a fantastic villain. And I think what makes Regina a good villain is that
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no one's the villain in their own story, you know? So both Renee's, Regina and Rachel's are
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pretty three-dimensional and they have their own stresses and their own pressures and
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they make their own mistakes. I think that's part of it.
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Absolutely. And I love Renee's take on this, Regina. I mean, it's really, really good.
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And I talked to her and she really talked about, you know, just bringing her own into it.
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So I really enjoy how all of these characters really got to bring the actors, got to bring
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themselves into these roles, which just makes it feel even more authentic.
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And just talking about the first rendition of this, there are so many lines that have stuck
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with people that have become part of our regular language. Was there any of those that shocked you?
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Like you were not expecting those to be a thing?
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The one that I didn't even realize was a thing until we started working on the Broadway musical
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was the thing of October 3rd that people remembered anything to do with her saying,
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"It's October 3rd," because that's just sort of barely even a joke in the original movie.
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Yeah.
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It's just how I was trying to move time forward in the story.
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Absolutely.
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So that's probably the craziest one.
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Yeah.
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Which is like the biggest one, because it's Mean Girls Day. So...
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Yeah.
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And was there a challenge to kind of bring those moments into this new one or into the
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musical version, or was you just knowing that, you know, something's going to stick?
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Yeah. Some of the things, you know, we sort of learned along the way with the stage musical that
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my feeling was if it's something textural, like October 3rd, we can weave that in and use that.
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But if it's a joke, like I try not to repeat, just to repeat a joke, because then it won't
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really work anymore as a joke. But things that are just familiar, but they're not jokes, like
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that felt okay to weave through.
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And then just chatting about this cast, and we kind of already talked about Renee, like
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I love that there's so much representation in these characters. What were you looking for in
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these actors to really bring that into the 2024?
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Well, I mean, the thrilling thing of all the iterations of the musicals we've seen that it...
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I already knew that it's really fun to watch different actors bring their own take to these
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characters. And so, I mean, we just wanted the best, most charismatic, most talented people.
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And I think we really got them. You know, I think Renee is incredible, and Gowrie is
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incredible. There's so much intelligence, you know, behind her eyes. You really believe that
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she's a kid who could do calculus. I don't know if Anne Gowrie can actually do calculus.
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And Ali'i is bringing that kind of edginess that's really vulnerability. It's erratic
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behavior, but it's because you know there's a lot of hurt there. Everyone just had this
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deep understanding. Jaquel is perfect as a narrator figure who takes us through, but also
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as Damien as this supportive best friend to Janice. They're all just fantastic.
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I agree. It's really, really good. It's so fun. It's so campy. I'm so excited for everyone to
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see it. Thank you so much for chatting with me, and congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
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