Lacey Chabert starred alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried
Lacey Chabert is opening up concerning the challenges of filming one of the iconic scenes from Imply Women — the notorious “Jingle Bell Rock” dance.
Whereas the 2004 vacation quantity has change into a millennial basic, Chabert admits it wasn’t all clean strikes throughout the shoot.
“Dancing is not my strongest suit,” the 42-year-old actress informed Individuals journal in an interview printed December 13.
Although she’s change into extra snug on the dance ground because of different roles, Chabert remembers struggling to maintain up with the choreography. “I just remember Mark Waters, the director… yelling out, definitely more than once, ‘Cut. Lacey’s offbeat. Someone help her.’”
Her missteps, nevertheless, truly “kind of made sense” throughout the context of the scene — as her character, Gretchen, is rushed right into a last-minute spot on the stage by Rachel McAdams’ Regina George.
Regardless of the mishaps, Chabert says the true problem was holding it collectively along with her co-stars: “I just remember every day of that movie… trying not to laugh, trying not to break character. And actually, when Gretchen kicks the stereo off the stage accidentally, I remembered we were genuinely laughing. If you look close enough, you can see I’m about to break and laugh.”
“It was such a fun scene to film,” she concluded.