Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried reflect on their 'meaningful friendship': 'Som...

More than 20 years after starring together in the iconic comedy, the costars still 'cherish' their bond. Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried reflect on their 'meaningful friendship': 'Someone I can rely on' More than 20 years after starring together in the iconic comedy, the costars still 'cherish' their bond. By Derek Lawrence :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/derek160e1b72b3389c74b8ca03743731e346949.jpg) Derek Lawrence Derek Lawrence is a former associate editor at . He left EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines June 15, 2026 10:27 a.m.

More than 20 years after starring together in the iconic comedy, the costars still 'cherish' their bond.

Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried reflect on their 'meaningful friendship': 'Someone I can rely on'

More than 20 years after starring together in the iconic comedy, the costars still 'cherish' their bond.

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- *Mean Girls* stars Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan have a "meaningful friendship."

- Lohan says she "cherishes" their bond.

- Seyfried felt bad about the "bashing" that Lohan faced early in her career.

Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan are not like regular friends — they're meaningful friends.

Twenty-two years after the release of their beloved teen comedy *Mean Girls*, the duo's relationship has developed into a "rare bond."

“We’ve stayed close because there’s genuine trust and respect between us,” Lohan told *British GQ* of Seyfried “What started as shared experience has grown into a meaningful friendship over time. Now we talk more about life, motherhood and our families. She’s always someone I can rely on. That consistency is rare and something I really cherish.”

Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan at MTV Movie Awards.

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Released in 2004, *Mean Girls *starred Lohan as Cady Heron, who, after years of being homeschooled, relocates with her family from Africa and begins attending high school in the States. She quickly infiltrates the powerful trio known as "the Plastics," with the group of it girls consisting of ruthless queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams), insecure gossiper Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert), and bubbly airhead Karen Smith (Seyfried).

"I hope they quote it on my grave," Seyfried said last year of the memorable film. "That's an organic moment. It was, in many ways, a perfect movie, and people relate to it, still. It connected us, and it continues to. I will always be excited to talk about it."

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After a run on the soap opera *All My Children* (alongside onscreen love interest Michael B. Jordan), Seyfried made her big-screen debut with *Mean Girls*, the start of a successful career that includes an Oscar nomination. Lohan was already a star when the young performers collaborated, but things soon took a turn, and she faced a string of poor reviews and public criticism.

"The spotlight was on her, no matter what she did," reflected Seyfried of her friend's experience. "The outsized bashing is ugly. It's a fear of mine. I would not want to be spotlit for being infamous in any way."

Lohan previously reflected on the "not safe" and "not fair" media frenzy that she dealt with in the early 2000s.

"I don't ever want my family to experience being chased by the paparazzi the way I was," she said. "They were terrifying moments I had in my life — I have PTSD to the extreme from those things. The most invasive situations. Really scary. And I pray stuff like that never comes back."

Lohan is in the midst of a nice resurgence, between last summer's *Freakier Friday* and the upcoming Hulu limited series *Count My Lies*. And Seyfried recently helped power *The Housemaid* to box office smash status, with a role in Lin-Manuel Miranda's second directorial effort up next.

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