Interview on Lindsay Lohan

IGNFF: Do you have a Regina George [the main mean, popular girl in Mean Girls] in your own school career?

LINDSAY LOHAN: I didn't really. I did when, in my first school, I was in one school until tenth grade, and then I switched high schools, so I went to another school. There was kind of a girl that was, like, a Regina George. She was a nice girl. I got along with her. She was definitely a Regina George-type. She was into what she looked like every day. People think that high school is, like, gotta look [great] every day. You gotta look hot. I was in sweats and T-shirts.

IGNFF: How similar is the rest of the Mean Girls world to your own school experience?

LOHAN: It's different than mine. I definitely experienced the cafeteria thing. It's like, people sitting at one table are the jocks and people and the people that were into math and that kind of thing. But, that's very realistic, and, like, the whole three-way calling. That happened. And fighting over boys, that happened. Talking behind each other's backs, that happened. But it didn't go as far as it went in the movie. Thank God.

IGNFF: Do you have a lot in common with Cady?

LOHAN: Yeah, in some ways. I'm more outspoken that Cady is. I wouldn't let myself be thrown into a table of girls I didn't know and have them be just back and forth talking. I'd be like, 'Whoa, I can't understand a word you're saying. Can you start over?' I wouldn't feel comfortable with them, like, whispering in front of me, like that makes me feel kind of insecure. But I can connect with her in the sense that I've been to a new school before and not really knowing anyone.

IGNFF: Do you think that high school teens will "get" the message of Mean Girls?

LOHAN: Oh, yeah. I think they'll get it. I think the message that's trying to be sent is basically, don't change who you are to be accepted by other people, just so that other people will like you. Because, then you're never going to be yourself and you're not you're not going to be satisfied. So, I think people will see that. The character, Cady, that I play, she kind of goes through this huge transformation where she loses herself and becomes kind of a mean girl and [she's] nasty to other people. Her true friends and family are, like, "This is not who you are. Why are you acting like this?' So, I think people will see that.