Rachel McAdams has revealed that audiences cheered when her character Regina George was hit by a bus in the 2004 film Mean Girls. The 47-year-old actress appeared on The Graham Norton Show and admitted she was taken aback by how much viewers loathed the villainous queen bee.
“I didn’t know how hated she would be and for how long,” McAdams said. She recalled attending her first screening of the film with her best friend: “Everyone cheered when Regina was hit by a bus, but my friend stood up and screamed, ‘Nooooo!’”
Mean Girls became a cultural phenomenon, spawning a Broadway and West End musical as well as a 2024 film remake. That version included a social media montage featuring rapper Megan Thee Stallion, who made a joke referring to Lindsay Lohan as “fire crotch” – a derogatory term once used against Lohan by billionaire heir Brandon Davis.
A representative for Lohan told The Independent that she was “very hurt and disappointed by the reference”, and the scene was cut from the film. Lohan’s father, Michael, was reportedly “p***ed” at the filmmakers for making what he called a “disgusting” joke.
