Falling for Christmas has been quite a sleigh ride for Lindsay Lohan. However, it wasn’t the right time for the Mean Girls star to redo her iconic “Jingle Bell Rock” musical performance from the 2004 teen comedy.
The 2000s child star shared that she initially suggested filming a scene commemorating the unforgettable presentation of the Mean Girls talent show. She gave the performance with Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried.
She ended up singing a cover of “Jingle Bell Rock” for the Netflix’s Falling for Christmas soundtrack.
“It was my brilliant idea to bring it up in a conversation with the directors and the producers. I was like, ‘Oh, wouldn’t it be fun if we did a blooper reel at the end and we all kind of did the Christmas scene from the talent show in Mean Girls?'” Lohan stated during an appearance on Friday’s Live with Kelly & Ryan episode.
“That was the first idea. Then I was like, ‘Let’s not actually do that,’ and then they said, ‘Oh, what about the song?'”
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Falling for Christmas Pitch
Lohan explained the idea in The Tonight Show on Thursday. She said she didn’t want to “ruin” the iconic Mean Girls legacy, so she walked away from the idea.
“I shouldn’t have said it because it went straight to, ‘Oh, let’s recreate the Mean Girls talent show scene,'” she stated. “I was like, ‘Oh, no, no. You can’t touch Mean Girls! Sorry, you can’t do that.”
Finally, the 36-year-old actress sang a few “Jingle Bell Rock” lines in the film, including while driving with her fiancé. However, the blooper scene at the end of the credits did not provide a remake of the Mean Girls’ dance number.
In the film, Lohan portrays a spoiled hotel magnate’s daughter. Later, following an incident leading to amnesia, she develops feelings for a handsome lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) merely ahead of the holidays.
Falling for Christmas is now streaming on Netflix.
Journey from Child Star to Comeback
The feel-good movie icon was inked into Ford Models at a young age, three precisely. She made a limelight debut in 1998 in the Walt Disney Pictures movie The Parent Trap. In the film, she starred as twins attempting to get their parents back together.
The breakthrough gave Lohan more projects like 2000’s Life-Size and 2002’s Get a Clue. Furthermore, it earned her roles in massive productions such as 2003’s Freaky Friday and 2004’s Confessions of Teenage Drama Queen.
Other movies that earned Lohan her spot in the Hollywood fame are the following:
Speak (2004)
Little More Personal (Raw) (2005
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
Just My Luck (2006)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Bobby (2006)
Chapter 27 (2007)
Eventually, her career began to flop after alleged misbehavior in the production of Georgie Rule in 2006. From there, headlines on her frequent court appearance, legal issues, and in-and-out in rehabilitation facilities.
She recently returned to the big screen with Falling for Christmas.
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