Step aside, Regina George!
On Thursday night at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Amanda Seyfried and Ashley Park got on stage to do a cover of Taylor Swift‘s Mean and Lily Allen‘s F**k You.
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While the 33-year-old played Karen Smith the 2004 movie Mean Girls, the 28-year-old originated the role of Gretchen Wieners in the 2018 musical — based on the film of the same name.
Additionally, while Park plays Thomas Sadoski‘s wife in the new show Grand Horizons, Seyfriend “plays his wife in real life.”
Speaking of the actor, Sadoski introduced the two — who put their own spin on the Shake It Off singer’s tune from her 2010 album Speak Now.
Seyfried sang:
“I walk with my head down ‘cause I kissed my cousin and I’ll never impress you. I just want to feel OK again.”
Park added:
“Boo, you whore.”
Together, they crooned:
“All you are is mean and a liar and pathetic and a fugly slut and mean.”
In addition to their Mean Girl references, Park donned a “Fetch” shirt while Seyfried wore a black tee with a backwards “K” like her character in the flick.
On Friday, Park uploaded a video of the performance to her YouTube page with the caption:
“Having both been Plastics, we sang a song to all the Regina George’s out there. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival late night cabaret. Cover of Taylor Swift’s Mean and Lily Allen’s F**k You. Enjoy and be nice! Xox, Karen and Gretchen”
WATCH (below):
In the November 2016 issue of Allure magazine, Amanda opened up about her longterm struggle with OCD, and her thoughts on our country’s stigmatization of mental health issues.
Seyfried was referred to a psychiatrist after falsely believing she developed a tumor in her brain, revealing:
“I had pretty bad health anxiety that came from the OCD and thought I had a tumor in my brain. I had an MRI, and the neurologist referred me to a psychiatrist. As I get older, the compulsive thoughts and fears have diminished a lot. Knowing that a lot of my fears are not reality-based really helps.”
Luckily, she was able to seek help for her issues:
“Yeah. I’m on Lexapro, and I’ll never get off of it. I’ve been on it since I was 19, so 11 years. I’m on the lowest dose. I don’t see the point of getting off of it. Whether it’s placebo or not, I don’t want to risk it. And what are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool? A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category [from other illnesses], but I don’t think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else. You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it.”
Thoughts??
[Image via Ashley Park/YouTube.]
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