{"id":441764,"date":"2026-01-31T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441764\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:51:09","slug":"rachel-mcadams-recalls-being-told-she-was-too-old-for-mean-girls-role-mean-girls-rachel-mcadams-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441764\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel McAdams Recalls Being Told She Was \u2018Too Old\u2019 for \u2018Mean Girls\u2019 Role | mean girls, Rachel McAdams | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rachel-mcadams\/\" title=\"Rachel Mcadams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel McAdams<\/a> was initially told she was \u201ctoo old\u201d to play the role she wanted in Mean Girls.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old actress is currently promoting her new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/send-help\/\" title=\"Send Help\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Send Help<\/a> and reflecting on her iconic career. She spoke about how when she initially auditioned for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/tina-fey\/\" title=\"Tina Fey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Fey<\/a> comedy, she was going out for the part of Cady, a role that eventually went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lindsay-lohan\/\" title=\"Lindsay Lohan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Lohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember thinking, \u2018This is a futile exercise. I will never be hired for Cady,\u2019\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/rachel-mcadams-recalls-being-told-25-was-too-old-to-play-the-lead-in-mean-girls-i-took-it-as-a-compliment-exclusive-11895890\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/people.com\/rachel-mcadams-recalls-being-told-25-was-too-old-to-play-the-lead-in-mean-girls-i-took-it-as-a-compliment-exclusive-11895890&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But she was so impressed with the script, she was willing to take any role. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Rachel, director Mark Waters thought she had potential as the movie\u2019s main villain, Regina George.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re too old to play Cady, but you\u2019re just right for Regina,\u201d she remembers him saying. \u201cRegina has been around the block a few times and maybe has a, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d call her an old soul, but she\u2019s got a few more miles on her than Cady,\u201d Rachel continued. \u201cSo I took it as a compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Notebook star recently wore a form-fitting sequin dress to the Send Help premiere. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/29\/rachel-mcadams-wears-form-fitting-sequin-dress-to-send-help-london-premiere-hugs-it-out-with-dylan-obrien\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the photos here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel McAdams was initially told she was \u201ctoo old\u201d to play the role she wanted in Mean Girls.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-441764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}