{"id":260798,"date":"2026-01-31T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:01:08","slug":"rachel-mcadams-on-her-mean-girls-role-i-didnt-know-how-hated-shed-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260798\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel McAdams on her Mean Girls role: \u2018I didn\u2019t know how hated she\u2019d be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Appearing on The Graham Norton Show, she said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know how hated she would be and for how long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe first time I saw the film with an audience I was with my best friend. Everyone cheered when Regina was hit by a bus, but my friend stood up and screamed, \u2018nooooo\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">McAdams\u2019 latest movie is Send Help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Directed by horror master Sam Raimi, the film follows the struggle for survival for financial strategist and survival enthusiast Linda Liddle \u2013 played by McAdams \u2013 who ends up stranded on a deserted island with her boss Bradley Preston (Dylan O\u2019Brien) after a plane crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Discussing working with Raimi \u2013 who she previously teamed up with on 2022 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness \u2013 McAdams said: \u201cHe is so wonderful and such a kind and lovely man who makes dark demented films, so I knew it would be a big reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Raimi, 66, built his filmmaking reputation in the horror genre with 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead and its two sequels starring Bruce Campbell as demon-battling Ash Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appearing on The Graham Norton Show, she said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know how hated she would be and for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5195,70322,17898,156,12856,13838,9065,1364,221,95458,6036,149680,29391,111,139,69,90,5415,23277,20089,205,4062,26639,6730],"class_list":["post-260798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-be","tag-bully","tag-didnt","tag-entertainment","tag-george","tag-girls","tag-hated","tag-her","tag-how","tag-i","tag-know","tag-mcadams","tag-mean","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-playing","tag-rachel","tag-regina","tag-role","tag-school","tag-shed","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}