The Sassy SNL Lass Plays Nice with Boys and Mean Girls
by H.W. Fowler | Apr. 27, 2004
Not only did Saturday Night Live's first female head writer and sarcastic Weekend Update anchor, Tina Fey, write the screenplay for the movie Mean Girls, but the bespectacled brunette also plays a math teacher in the movie. Oh, and she drops words like satiated into casual conversation. Could any geek lover ask for more?
Though Mean Girls is based on the nonfiction psychology book Queen Bees & Wannabes, which studies the ups and downs of being a female teenager, Fey took some liberties with the material: Freaky Friday's Lindsay Lohan stars as a zoologist's daughter whose experience with wild beasts in Africa is poor preparation for surviving suburban high school.
We found Fey to be as smart, funny and, contrary to the movie's title and her own confessions, nice. Commence crushing now...
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We've heard you were mean in high school and college. Didn't antagonizing guys just make them like you more?
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I was, a little bit, yeah. I was a jealous girl in a lot of ways. I sort of had no luck with boys, so if I liked a boy and he liked some other girl, I would be very jealous and very mean about that girl and talk about her behind her back. And, oddly enough, being mean to guys does not make them want to go out with you. It took me, like, nine years to learn that.
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