Lindsay Lohan’s Mean Girls cameo cost an eye
Kayla Harrington
A few original Mean Girls characters made cameos in the new musical movie, but it was just revealed how much Lindsay Lohan made for hers.
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A few original Mean Girls characters made cameos in the new musical movie, but it was just revealed how much Lindsay Lohan made for hers.

Almost two decades after the original film first premiered, the musical movie reboot of Mean Girls has finally hit theaters.

Though we weren’t too impressed with the film in our two-star review, other fans have been praising it for its dedication to sticking to its musical roots and the inclusion of some of the iconic OG cast members.

One of those cast members was Lindsay Lohan herself who played the main character of Cady Heron in the original film, but her inclusion in the film came at big cost as the amount the studio had to pay to her for her time has just been revealed.

Lohan made half of her original Mean Girls salary

In an exclusive report obtained by Variety, it’s been revealed that Lindsay Lohan was paid $500,00 by Paramount Pictures in order to secure her cameo for the Mean Girls musical movie.

Back in 2004, Lohan was paid $1 million for her role in the original Mean Girls movie, which is a bit hard to believe as the movie went on to make $130 million at the box office and become one of the most popular teen movies of all time.

Lohan wasn’t the only OG Mean Girls cast member to return to the 2024 film as Tina Fey and Tim Meadows also reprised their role but, while we don’t know how much they made for their cameos, they both signed onto the film with the strict condition that they didn’t have to sing anything.

Lohan’s Mean Girls cameo was a full circle moment for her original character as she acted as the judge for the math competition she originally won in 2004.

Though it wasn’t clear if Lohan was playing a flashback version or an older relative of her original Mean Girls character, it seemed fitting that she would come back out of the OG young adult cast.