Lindsay Lohan Just Delivered A Nostalgic Mean Girls Callback
Lindsay Lohan performs her Mean Girls version of "Jingle Bell Rock" to promote Falling for Christmas.
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For actor Lindsay Lohan, the cult-classic movie Mean Girls was a pinnacle project of the young performer’s career. Since her time on the Tina Fey set, Lohan has had a string of bad movies and personal troubles that seemingly tanked her acting career and grounded it to a screeching halt. Netflix is looking to change that when they reveal a new holiday movie starring Lohan and Glee star Chord Overstreet entitled Falling for Christmas.
Netflix has been advertising the new flick on social media with a cheeky rendition of Lohan singing the Mean Girls classic, “Jingle Bell Rock.”
While other performers from Bobby Helms to Rascal Flatts have produced their own versions of “Jingle Bell Rock,” Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Rachel McAdams, and Lacey Chabert made the song a modern classic due to their comedic performance of the hit single in the movie Mean Girls. Netflix appears to be leaning on nostalgia a bit by promoting Falling for Christmas with Lohan covering the tune over an advertisement for the new movie that is due to be released on the platform this month, complete with tagging the actor on Twitter.
The release of this new trailer will most likely help audiences welcome Lohan back into the fold, and possibly bolster her chances of becoming an A-list actor once again.
Lindsay Lohan starred as Cady Heron in 2004’s Mean Girls along with an ensemble cast that included Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett, Lizzy Caplan, and Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer. Despite her personal struggles with alcohol and family troubles, the movie was a financial success for Paramount Pictures and helped bring Lohan into more young adult roles, rather than the Disney projects she had become famous for, like 1998’s The Parent Trap with Dennis Quaid and 2003’s Freaky Friday alongside Jamie Lee Curtis. Mean Girls went on to gross over $130 million at the box office against a budget of $17 million, and has spawned a Broadway show of the same name which was nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2018.
But for Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls became the movie she seemed to be the most proud of and the film many fans have flocked to in the nearly two decades since it debuted in theaters, with Falling for Christmas hopefully representing a career comeback for Lohan in 2022.
Mean Girls was well-liked by audiences and became a hit with critics as well, with Rotten Tomatoes currently ranking Mean Girls as Certified Fresh with an 84% on their Tomatometer based on 190 critics’ reviews, as well as an Audience Score of 66%. The film about high school cliques, bullying, and reputations among students was written by acclaimed writer and actor Tina Fey, which was initially based off of the 2002 non-fiction self-help book, Queen Bees and Wannabes.
