‘Mean Girls’ director Mark Waters says the movie could be ”extra PC” if it was made now.
The 54-year-old filmmaker admitted that some facets of the 2004 teen comedy starring Lindsay Lohan are ”very transgressive” and he feels if it was made right this moment there could be ”micro-managing” about how ”teenage ladies relate to boys”.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan UK, he stated: ”There’s rather a lot within the film that may be very ‘un-PC’. I might assume there could be extra micro-managing over issues you must or shouldn’t be portraying with teenage ladies doing to one another and the way in which they relate to boys. It’s exhausting for me to delve into what would or wouldn’t be thought of too ‘un-PC’ however we made light-hearted jokes in regards to the fitness center coach having affairs with the scholars with strains like, ‘Step away from the underage ladies.’
”You cannot actually make that joke, it’s totally transgressive. We did it in a light-hearted no huge deal means, however it’s a fairly huge deal.”
The ‘Freaky Friday’ director went on to elucidate that the movie – which additionally starred Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert – was initially ”very R-rated” and needed to be toned down with the intention to obtain its PG18 score.
He stated: ”The first script I learn was very R-rated, it had sexual commentary in addition to quite a lot of profanity; quite a lot of f-bombs and salacious speak. It was very clear we weren’t going to launch an R-rated film, it wanted to be PG13. That was the studio’s choice however we did not battle it, it was comprehensible. We stripped all that stuff out earlier than we began taking pictures.
”We have been making a film set in a highschool which might be primarily marketed to ladies aged 12 to 25. A woman in highschool ought to have the ability to go and see a film about ladies in highschool.”
