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Twenty years after Gretchen Wieners Lacey Chabert debuted her catchphrase “so fetch” in the 2004 comedy, Bebe Wood takes on the role and the famous line in a new musical reimagining, rewritten by Tina Fey.
Does Wood, 22, have any catchphrases of his own that he wants to achieve in 2024?
“Wave” Love, Victor alum tells PEOPLE, adding, “My best friend was really trying to make this happen. I don’t fully understand it, but it’s a wave. I think it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s great. A wave.’ It’s a vibe.”
Avantika, 18, plays Karen, a colleague from the popular Plastics clique. She chooses new words: “I know flop is already a thing, but I really like the word flop. I think flop is great.” She also floats adding “optics” to her everyday vocabulary.
Angourie Rice, 23-year-old Australian actress from Mare of Easttown and The last thing he said to me, laughingly suggests that the new word should be peckish. (It’s an inside joke on set for her and her co-stars.)
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Avantika, Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp and Bebe Wood in “Mean Girls”.
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I’m a little hungry. Like, ‘I could eat something,'” says Rice, who plays Cady Heron.
Reneé Rapp, 24, the new Regina George, explains: “We kept a list of things that Angourie would say that are so sweet and precious and Australian. One of the first ones, she’s like, ‘I’m quite tingly’ and I was like, ‘ What, queen?’ So now we have our group chat, it’s called Peckish.”
Damian, actor Jaquel Spivey, 25, from Broadway A strange loopwants to revive a certain fun greeting: “It used to be in, but it’s not anymore. I miss when people were like, ‘hey!‘ It could mean anything, but it also has so much sauce and rizzo in it. I think we should bring him back.”
Auli’i Cravalho, Moana the voice actress who plays Janis, more seriously wants the phrase “Maui Strong” to prevail, a message of support for those affected by the Maui wildfires. The performer’s Hawaiian roots are reflected in her character’s new last name, ‘Imi’ike.
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Jaquel Spivey, Angourie Rice and Auli’i Cravalho in “Mean Girls.”
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Cravalho, 23, explains the names mean: “‘Imi’ike, like, aim for the stars, reach for the top. That seems important to her character as well because she’s someone who … has a best friend in Damian, she has a great friend in Cady and she doesn’t worry about fitting in with cliques; she stays true to herself.”
In the new film, Fey (53) and Tim Meadows reprise their roles as math teacher Mrs. Norbury and Principal Duvall. Fey tells PEOPLE that finding the new cast of characters was “one of my favorite parts of the process.”
“I love getting the chance to be a part of it,” Fey says. “I am so thrilled with this cast that has come together for the new film Mean girls. They’re all so incredibly charismatic.”
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Spivey says Fey “told us to be who we are and make these characters our own, have fun and believe that we were chosen for a reason.”
Gretchen, the Wood actress, adds, “The most amazing thing about working with a writer as talented as Tina Fey is that the essence of the characters will always remain because the writing is so good. Each character is written so clearly, so naturally, that you want to pay homage to the performances of the past , the performances we grew up with.”
“It’s like you’re going to take the text, do what you want with it, and kind of make it your own,” she adds. “But I feel like the essence of the characters will always remain.”
Mean girls it’s in theaters now.
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