Amanda Seyfried has finally confirmed it: Boys are gross.
In an interview with Marie Claire, Seyfried opened up about life in a post-Mean Girls world. As one of the stars of the most-quotable movie on the planet, it’s not super surprising that some of her most infamous lines were said back to her in real life when she was recognized in public—which, she adds, didn’t happen too often. (Cut to me pointing to my invisible mouse ear headband: “I’m a mouse, duh.”)
When she was recognized for her role in the iconic 2004 flick, however, she says it wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience. Mostly, she told the outlet, it was boys asking her if it was raining. As we all know, Seyfried’s character Karen Smith had ESPN (or something) and could predict the weather with her breasts.
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“I always felt really grossed out by that,” she told Marie Claire. “I was like 18 years old. It was just gross.”
Seyfried, now 36, also opened up about her relationship with fame, telling the magazine that—rain comments aside—she preferred being just somewhat recognizable as a young actor. “I think being really famous [young] must really fucking suck,” she said. “It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world. I see these younger actors who think they have to have security. They think they have to have an assistant. They think their whole world has changed. It can get stressful. I’ve seen it happen to my peers. So, I bought a farm. I was like, let’s go in the opposite way.”
Her peers, of course, include Mean Girls co-star Lindsay Lohan, 35, who was famously mistreated by the press, and whose career and personal life appeared to crack under the enormous pressures of fame at a young age.
