Lacey Chabert was just as thrilled about the “Mean Girls” reunion as lovers ended up.
Nineteen a long time following the actor tried out to make “fetch materialize,” she reunited with her “Mean Girls” co-stars, such as Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried for a nostalgic ad and mini-sequel.
Chabert tells Right now.com that reprising her function as Gretchen Wieners and becoming back again with a variety of her previous castmates was a “full circle moment” — and would even look at doing a actual “Mean Girls” sequel.
“Oh my gosh, it was the greatest! It was like stepping again in time, like no time experienced passed,” the actor suggests while speaking about her Glade partnership. “It was so exciting to reminisce about all the reminiscences we have from the film and then catch up with each other.”
“We’re all mothers now,” she provides, “And it was this sort of a whole circle moment and I’m so grateful for the encounter.”
The business, filmed for Walmart’s Black Friday offers, featured a few-fourths of the Plastics, as effectively as other primary characters, as grownup versions of their characters with teenagers of their individual. Lohan, who portrayed Cady Heron, seems to be the school’s steerage counselor, Gretchen is a phase mom, and Karen Smith (Seyfried) is a temperature reporter. There’s also a nod to the popular “Jingle Bell Rock” overall performance.
When requested if the commercial’s storyline sparked fascination in furthering the “Mean Girls” franchise, Chabert was all in.
“Oh, I think we all truly enjoyed revisiting those people people and would, of class, be open up to it,” she suggests. “But for now, I’m just thankful we had that experience.”
The comedy, meanwhile, is acquiring the movie musical therapy. Previously this month, Paramount Pictures produced the trailer for the new “Mean Women,” a film adaptation of the Broadway show based on Tina Fey’s initial comedy.
Chabert says she’s seen the trailer and thinks “it looks terrific.”
“I simply cannot wait to see the movie,” she states.
When Fey and Tim Meadows make cameos in the new complete-length movie, Chabert states she’s not in it.
“No, I’m not in it — but I just cannot wait around to see what they’ve performed,” she states. “I want them all the finest and I’m absolutely sure it’s magnificent.”
Chabert spoke with TODAY.com as part of her partnership with Glade for their constrained-edition holiday break selection.
“This is my complete preferred time of calendar year and generating a festive vibe in my house, and the experience of the holidays, is so particular,” she states, sharing that her favorite scent from the assortment is the Starlight & Snowflakes. Nevertheless, the Twinkling Pine & Cedar fragrance is fantastic for those people who have artificial Christmas trees like she does.
1 factor she loves to do, Chabert shares, is “creating the ambiance of the holiday seasons.”
The actor, these days regarded for her Hallmark Christmas flicks, has been in the vacation spirit because Halloween ended. She suggests she promptly introduced out the garland, lights and Christmas tree and experienced her 7-calendar year-aged daughter, Julia, aid her.
“We experienced Christmas music heading and we had Glade candles burning,” she shares. “I like this time of calendar year so significantly simply because, not only do I like to make films about this time of 12 months but, it brings again my most cherished childhood recollections. And then I get to make these new recollections with my daughter. It is this kind of a blessing to see the magic of the vacations as a result of her eyes.”
One point her daughter will get extra pleasure about in the course of this time of yr are her getaway flicks, she suggests. This year, Chabert stars in “A Merry Scottish Christmas,” out Nov. 18. The Hallmark film reunites her with her previous “Party of Five” co-star and on-screen brother Scott Wolf.
She also stars in “Haul Out the Holly Lit Up,” the sequel to “Haul Out the Holly,” airing Nov. 25.
“(Julia) enjoys the Hallmark Christmas ones the most effective or she loves the ones wherever I get to have a princess instant and use a really dress,” she claims. “Sometimes I’m equipped to invest in or keep these attire from the films and I’m preserving them all for her.”
Chabert suggests she plans on placing the costume along with the movie poster to a single working day give her her daughter. “I have it packed absent with the poster from the movie and maybe a single day it’ll be significant to her.”
“I just want her to know that she can chase her goals,” she suggests about sharing those moments with her daughter. “And it’s all possible with some difficult do the job.”
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