Rachel McAdams, who played the role of Regina George, the main bully in the 2004 movie Mean Girls, appeared on the January 20 episode of Saturday Night Live. On the show, she introduced Reneé Rapp and the other Regina George from the musical remake of the Mean Girls 2004 movie.
The 2004 Regina introducing the 2023 Regina George was something that the fans were not expecting, especially after the moment when she was not even aware of this little reunion of Mean Girls in a supermarket shoot of creating a reunion just weeks before the musical remake of the movie.
Rachel McAdams had introduced Reneé at SNL.
On the January 20 episode of Saturday Night Live, Rachel McAdams appeared as a host of the night and introduced Reneé Rapp. The actress Rachel McAdams, who played the role of Regina George in 2004 Mean Girls, introduced the musical remake Regina George, in which Reneé Rapp played.
Following Rapp’s performance on Not My Fault, which she wrote for the film, she was also accompanied by Megan Thee Stallion during the performance.
After this performance, McAdams entered into the sketch, portraying the role of Natalie Partman. Natalie is an actor who had to struggle while landing roles just because she looked like Rachel McAdams.
This was the first time McAdams was included in any event of Mean Girls otherwise, even though she had been the lead actress of the 2004 Mean Girls. The other stars of the original film, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert, reunited a couple of months ago for a Walmart commercial, along with other male lead actors in the film.
The commercial showed a leap into the lives of the PLASTICS of Regina George and other characters, portraying where they stand in their life, now.
Even though Regina George is the one who led the movie from the start to the end, accompanying others, she was not included in the commercial; in an interview, McAdams revealed that she was not even aware of this happening.
Lohan also appeared at the New York City premiere of the musical remake of The Mean Girls and made a cameo. The 2004 and 2024 Mean Girls are written by Tina Frey. Even she and Tom Meadows made their comebacks with their roles in the remake, but Rachel McAdams did not.
In an interview prior, to the release of the remake of Mean Girls, McAdams was asked why she was not a part of the commercial. She said, “Tina and I sort of dabbled with a few ideas, but it was tough to make it work in the end.”
She also explained that she was down for whatever Fey would want her to do, and she believed that it would come out fantastic in the direction it has gone.
Rachel McAdams, aka Regina George, the Queen Bee of Mean Girls 2004, was not included in the commercial, and her co-stars stated in the interview that somehow she is the one who has turned down the opportunity.
McAdams said maybe she did not get the appearance because she did not sound that excited, as doing a movie ‘sounded awesome’ for her, but even if she had been approached for the commercial, she would have turned it down.
McAdams mentioned that she would love to be a part of a Mean Girls reunion and hang along with her plastics, but maybe it did not have to be a commercial, and she also came to know about this later.
The antagonist of the original Mean Girls, the Queen Bee, Regina George, got the opportunity to make an entry into the events of the remake of Mean Girls (2024), as she introduced the singer who had played Regina George on Broadway and also reprised her role in the new musical film of Paramount, on Saturday Night Live, January 20.
Rachel McAdams, who had never hosted SNL, was doing the skit with her episode co-host, Jacob Elordi. They both gave a performance where Rachel McAdams played the role of an actress who looks like her, and Elordi played the role of a very famous, pretentious actor who imparts words of wisdom to the group.
The show ended at a point where Rapp and McAdams were seen blowing each other kisses from afar, and Elordi was seen closing the show.
