Amanda Seyfried has claimed that Paramount Pictures owes her money for using her likeness in Mean Girls merchandise.
Mean Girls was a 2004 phenomenon written by Tina Fey and starring the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Lacey Chabert.
The movie was a phenomenal hit, sparking sequels, a Broadway and West End musical, and a film version of the musical.
In the film, Amanda played Karen Smith, one of the ‘plastics’ aka the group of ‘mean girls’ in the film, who use their popularity to rule the school.
In a new interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors, Amanda sat down with Nobody Wants This star Adam Brody to discuss their careers thus far.
The topic of Mean Girls came up in conversation, with Amanda admitting that she loves seeing her face on t-shirts but felt a little ‘resentful’ as she believed she wasn’t paid for the use of her likeness.
‘I really love seeing my face on people’s t-shirts, I mean, I am a little resentful because Paramount still owes me some money.’
‘For the likeness,’ she clarified. ‘Every store sells Mean Girls T-shirts with our faces on. Photographs!
‘And I’m like, is it because I was 17 and dumb, or is it just like…you know what I mean?
‘But I love it. Even the girl at TSA: “Mean Girls, my favourite movie!” and I’m like “Great!” I was 17, I had nothing to do with it.
Speaking about the film in retrospect, the Mamma Mia actress said that she is still excited to speak about it 20 years later.
On the Happy Sad Confused podcast earlier this year, she told host Josh Horowitz: ‘I hope they quote it on my grave…. In many ways, it was just a perfect movie.
‘People relate to it still, and it really, it connected us, and it continues to. And I will always be excited to talk about it…. I will, any day, honour that movie.”
She also reflected that she was very young when the film was made, and it was the first time she’d been on a film set.
‘I think the experience for me is very specific, because I’d never been in a movie before. I’d never been on a set like that before. And I was working with people who had. So, for me, it was just, everything was new.’
Metro has reached out to Paramount Pictures for comment.
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