Remember Aaron Samuels? The Mean Girls character who looks sexy with his hair pushed back? Well the bloke that played him, Jonathan Bennett, is having a real moment rn. He’s been cast in the questionable Hilary Duff flick The Haunting Of Sharon Tate, he reprised his role as Samuels in Ariana Grande‘s ‘Thank U, Next’ music video and now he’s co-hosted an episode of former co-star Lindsay Lohan‘s new reality series, Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club: After the Show.
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During the post-show talkshow, the pair discussed Ariana’s vid and Lindsay, once again, seemed salty that she was not invited to play Cady Heron again, a part that went to Elizabeth Gillies.
“It was awesome! I thought it was great, but you were in it! I wasn’t in it,” the singer said. “I didn’t know, but it was exciting to see!”
When The Burn Cookbook author adds, “It was fun for me,” Lohan sarcastically responds, “Oh, I’m sure it was fun for you!”
After first discovering that her iconic role was being played by someone else for Ari’s vid, LiLo took to Instagram to write that while she’s flattered by the homage, she can never be replaced.
“Behind the scenes. Ain’t nobody Lindsay Lohan like the real Lindsay Lohan,” she captioned a now-deleted photo. “But so flattered by @arianagrande loving #MeanGirls so much! Also, I love #dynasty.”
Then in an interview with Cosmopolitan, the music video director Hannah Lux Davis revealed why the actress wasn’t invited to star in the vid.
When asked if Lindsay was ever even considered for the part, she responded:
“No, we wanted to have her friends be the roles of her, of the plastics. From the get-go, Ariana was like, ‘I’m gonna have Alexa [Luria] as Karen, and Courtney [Chipolone] as Gretchen, and Liz [Gillies] as Cady.’
She was really adamant about her friends being so prominent in the video. I feel like it’s really cool because she had said, you know, these are the girls that have been by her side during these hard times and she is so excited to have this moment with them, forever time capsuled, of all these, her best friends with her, just gettin’ loose and having a good time and really showing her fans this side of them.”
Lohan went on to spill some tea on the filming of the OG flick which was released back in 2004 (good times).
“We filmed [the movie] in Toronto next to a psych ward. I remember that,” the nightclub owner remembers.
“Do you remember the alarms went off there? We were freaking out and we locked ourselves in the trailers. Someone escaped. That’s why we were locked in the trailers. Rachel McAdams was freaking out, came to my trailer. We had a great experience. I mean, I was rhinestoning my T-Mobile sidekick.”
Check out a snippet of their chat HERE.
