‘Thank U, Next’ Director On Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn’t In Ariana Grande’s Throwback
Over the weekend Ariana Grande’s ‘Thank U, Next’ video dropped and history changed forever. The flawless clip is the ultimate homage to all our fave ’00s movies and it’s a blessing to us all.
One of the films the clip replicated was Mean Girls, and while original film star Jonathan Bennet (aka Aaron Samuels) was invited back to join the plastics, one notable absence was the dancing queen of Mykonos herself, Lindsay Lohan.
Lohan being petty AF posted on Instagram “ain’t nobody Lindsay Lohan like the real Lindsay Lohan.”
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, the music video director, Hannah Lux Davis, explained why Lohan wasn’t brought back for the clip.
“We wanted to have her [Grande’s] 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.”
Luckily there doesn’t seem to be any hard feelings from the OG Mean Girls star.
If you haven’t watched the clip yet then I have serious concerns over wtf you’re doing with your life.