‘Mean Girls’ icon Lacey Chabert wants to make a Hallmark movie about her Mississippi hometown
Lacey Chabert, a South Mississippi native and one-third of the “Mean Girls” Plastics, wants to make a Hallmark movie about the small Southern town where she grew up.
The actress played the iconic Gretchen Wieners in the cult-classic film alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried, and starred in the TV sitcom “Party of Five.”
Chabert is now an actress and producer for Hallmark, where she told Vulture her creative vision has come to life.
The 40-year-old is a native of Purvis, a small town just south of Hattiesburg, and has appeared in dozens of Hallmark movies. She said she’s ready to bring a film crew down south.
“I’m from Purvis, Mississippi, and it’s a small town,” she told Vulture. “I think about how everyone in that town supported me when I was a kid when my family moved to New York and I started in the business. It’s been a longtime dream of mine to tell a real southern story where we have accents and everything.”
Chabert said she wants to film the movie in Purvis. And it wouldn’t be the first time a made-for-TV film has featured the Magnolia State. “Christmas in Mississippi” was filmed in Gulfport and prominently featured the Holiday Lights Show at Jones Park.
Chabert, who signed a two-year deal with Hallmark in February 2022, also told Vulture that if a new “Mean Girls” was ever produced, she’d sign on to reprise her breakout role as Wieners. So fetch!
