How Lindsay Lohan ‘Imply Women’ cameo calls again to authentic film

Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for “Imply Women.”

The brand new “Imply Women” film consists of fairly just a few acquainted faces. Tina Fey, who co-wrote the unique movie and the following stage musical, reprises her function as math instructor Ms. Norbury. Tim Meadows is again on-screen as the highschool’s principal.

After which there’s that cameo, the one more likely to elicit gasps from longtime followers. (No, not Megan Thee Stallion, although she turns up as nicely.)

Lindsay Lohan — who starred within the 2004 film as Cady Heron, the once-homeschooled beginner caught up with the favored, fearsome Plastics — makes a shock look in one of many film musical’s remaining scenes, because the moderator of the climactic arithmetic competitors.

“Tonight can be a end result of all you’ve labored for,” she says, explaining the principles of the match and studying off the issues that the 2 groups compete to resolve accurately.

All through the scene, Lohan makes humorous, meta-textual references to the unique film. When the sport play requires a tie-breaking face-off, she factors to the primary movie by saying, “Properly, this has solely ever occurred as soon as earlier than.”

And when Cady (Angourie Rice) thinks out loud about why she will’t recall the mathematics downside’s related lesson, Lohan interrupts her practice of thought by telling her, “Honey, I don’t know your life.” (In spite of everything, the one who is aware of this character finest is Lohan herself.)

Lindsay Lohan as Cady, from left, Amanda Seyfried as Karen and Lacey Chabert as Gretchen within the 2004 film, ‘Imply Women.’

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Cady involves the conclusion that evaluating herself to different ladies isn’t a wholesome technique to make herself really feel good. “This isn’t a contest,” she exclaims, and Lohan then reminds her of the setting: “It sort of is, although.”

After Cady reprises the track “Silly With Love,” the scene echoes the unique and closes with Cady’s classroom flashback and her iconic successful reply: “The restrict doesn’t exist!” And sure, Kevin G (Mahi Alam) as soon as once more rips his shirt off in victory.

Lohan’s look was saved a secret all through the movie’s press cycle. When requested on the “At the moment” present who from the unique movie seems within the new film, Fey shrugged, “I don’t know, it’s important to come see. There are great surprises all through the film, I’d say.” And although Lohan attended the brand new film’s premiere, she solely spoke of the primary movie’s legacy throughout interviews on the purple carpet.

This cameo isn’t the primary time Lohan has revisited “Imply Women.” Final yr, Lohan — together with Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Rajiv Surendra and Daniel Franzese — reprised their roles for Walmart’s Black Friday commercials, which checked in on the beloved characters as dad and mom of highschool college students themselves.

And in 2019, she and her fellow solid members led a social media marketing campaign with the Thirst Venture to boost funds for freshwater wells in Uganda. The efforts passed off on, after all, Oct. 3.