
“But these aren’t trivial issues they lay the groundwork for girls faking their feelings, pretending to be someone they’re not, pleasing others at their own expense, or otherwise sacrificing self-esteem and authenticity.” 2. “You may feel that it’s not worth making a federal case of not getting invited to a birthday party or letting your daughter blow off one friend for another,” Wiseman writes. Much of the book contains anecdotes culled from Wiseman’s time spent leading workshops in schools nationwide through Empower, a non-profit anti-violence program she cofounded.
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As the book’s title suggests, Wiseman offers advice and strategies to parents on how to help their daughters navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. Tina Fey was inspired to write Mean Girls, her very first screenplay, after reading Rosalind Wiseman’s bestselling book Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence. MEAN GIRLS WAS INSPIRED BY A SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PARENTS. Which even has its own widely celebrated national day of recognition. He now has 56.1K subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he shares DIY crafts videos.Happy Mean Girls Day! Here are some things you might not have contemplated about this already cult-status classic. I felt dead inside for a long time.”Īpart from “Mean Girls”, Surendra has featured in a short, titled “6 ft. I think I was in shock for a couple weeks.

When I got the email saying I didn’t get the part, I felt like that person just died instantly. Those old Tamil songs I listened to as a kid, Pi would’ve listened to those songs. By the end of those years, that was a real person inside of me. Very slowly over the course of six years, I was building this boy that was a character in a book. Surendra said about the day he received the rejection e-mail: “I felt like someone had died. In the end, they gave it to somebody else.” I worked really, really hard to try to get this part. “‘Life of Pi’ was attached to four different directors over the years so every time a new director (came aboard), I’d go to the library and get out all the movies they had made and research that director. Surendra shared details of the preparation he put in for the part, including research he did on each director attached to the project. It was actually six years because of that year off,” he added. Three months turned into a year turned into four years. They lost their director and the project ended up getting put on hold so I went back to college,” he told GQ. I assumed that it was going to happen any day now and it didn’t. I did that for a few months and came back and was just waiting for them to start production. So, I dropped out of college to go to the little town in India where the book takes place so that I could do some in-depth research.

“While we were shooting ‘Mean Girls’ during my first year of college, I found out they were turning ‘The Life of Pi’ into a film.

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The film got 11 Oscar nominations and Ang Lee won the Best Director Award.Ī New ‘Mean Girls’ Movie Is In The Works, Cast Announced The role eventually went to the newcomer Suraj Sharma, who became an overnight sensation following the film’s release in 2012. Surendra told GQ that he desperately wanted the lead role in “Life of Pi” – for which he dropped out of college and prepared rigorously six years. Rajiv Surendra as Kevin Gnapoor in 'Mean Girls'.Īctor Rajiv Surendra, best known as rapper and Mathlete Kevin G of Lindsay Lohan’s “Mean Girls”, revealed the heartbreaking reason he quit films.
