In 2004, Mean Girls — a comedy about teen girls and their harmful high school cliques — hit theaters like a speeding bus, earning a whopping $24.4 million in its opening weekend. Over the years, the film has grown a cult fan following and has even spawned a Broadway musical.
While the film's cast is one of the reasons behind its success, audiences could have seen Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Gretchen Wieners, a role that ultimately went to Lacey Chabert. Winstead had an opportunity to audition for the part — and she turned it down.
During an interview with Collider Ladies Night in October 2019, Winstead confessed that she passed on the hit teen comedy, saying, "I remember it was partially because my mom, when I was younger, was really involved in my career and so we'd both read scripts and sometimes she would be like, 'Ew, that's terrible.' You know, like the humor was raunchy or whatever, and so she hated that script and was like, 'You're not auditioning for that.' And I just was sort of like, 'Oh, okay. Whatever.'"
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