Was Blake Lively going to play Amanda Seyfried's 'Mean Girls' role?

Los Angeles: Hollywood actor Amanda Seyfried revealed that her role of Karen Smith in the 2004 American teen comedy ‘Mean Girls’ almost went to Blake Lively.

The film, a cult favourite among movie buffs, revolved around a home-schooled teenager, played by Lindsay Lohan, who joins high school and ends up falling foul with the ‘Plastics’, the ruling clique of wealthy but insecure Gretchen Wieners, sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith and ‘queen bee’ Regina George.

In an interview with the American magazine ‘Vanity Fair’, Amanda Seyfried said that she originally went in to read for Regina George’s part, which eventually went to Rachel McAdams.

“I had flown out to Los Angeles for the first time with my mother. It was very exciting. I met Lacey Chabert for the first time and Lindsay Lohan was in the room and Blake Lively was playing Karen and then I was Regina,” Seyfried said.

The actor said that she left the audition thinking that either she was getting George’s role or not getting the film at all.

“I flew home and they were like, ‘We think you are more correct for Karen’,” she said.

Seyfried added, “So I was like, ‘Oh god. OK, sure’.”