This holiday season has seen in influx of Mean Girls content with the upcoming movie musical out on Jan. 12, 2024, and the reunion of most of the original cast from the 2004 movie in Walmart‘s Black Friday commercial. One noticeably absent cast member was Rachel McAdams, who is finally revealing why she wasn’t in the very buzz-worthy spot.
Well, Variety got the answer as to why the 45-year-old star declined reuniting with Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert. “I don’t know; I guess I wasn’t that excited about doing a commercial if I’m being totally honest. A movie sounded awesome, but I’ve never done commercials, and it just didn’t feel like my bag,” McAdams revealed while referring to the rumor that she and Tina Fey tried to find her a Regina George cameo in the upcoming film. (Spoiler alert: It didn’t happen.)
What’s surprising is that there wasn’t a group chat among the original cast members about doing the Walmart commercial together— and McAdams sounds regretful about missing out on the experience. She admitted, “I didn’t know that everyone was doing it. I would, of course, always love to be part of a Mean Girls reunion and hang with my plastics, but yeah, I found that out later.”
The character of Regina came into her life when she was looking for “larger-than-life characters” to play in her career. McAdams told Refinery29 in 2018 that it was the queen bee’s “take no prisoners” attitude that drew her to the role. “I have to thank Regina George for giving me some longevity,” she recalled. “I’m forever grateful to Tina Fey and Mark Waters [the director]. I remember when I read it, I called my agent right away and said, ‘I will play any part in this, please, please, please.'”
With such an appreciation for the film and how it shaped her early career, McAdams might have missed a wonderful pop-culture moment to revisit North Shore High School’s most popular girl in The Plastics. It’s a choice that McAdams sounds like she wish she could go back and change.
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