Lacey Chabert is opening up in regards to the challenges of filming one of the vital iconic scenes from Mean Girls — the notorious “Jingle Bell Rock” dance.
While the 2004 vacation quantity has develop into a millennial traditional, Chabert admits it wasn’t all clean strikes in the course of the shoot.
“Dancing shouldn’t be my strongest go well with,” the 42-year-old actress advised People journal in an interview printed December 13.
Though she’s develop into extra snug on the dance ground due to different roles, Chabert remembers struggling to maintain up with the choreography. “I simply keep in mind Mark Waters, the director… yelling out, positively greater than as soon as, ‘Cut. Lacey’s offbeat. Someone assist her.’”
Her missteps, nevertheless, really “type of made sense” throughout the context of the scene — as her character, Gretchen, is rushed right into a last-minute spot on the stage by Rachel McAdams’ Regina George.
Despite the mishaps, Chabert says the true problem was holding it collectively together with her co-stars: “I simply keep in mind day-after-day of that film… making an attempt to not snicker, making an attempt to not break character. And really, when Gretchen kicks the stereo off the stage unintentionally, I remembered we had been genuinely laughing. If you look shut sufficient, you possibly can see I’m about to interrupt and snicker.”
“It was such a enjoyable scene to movie,” she concluded.
