Taylor Louderman Talks Playing Regina George in 'Mean Girls' On Broadway

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Tony Nominee Taylor Louderman Talks Playing Regina George in 'Mean Girls' On Broadway

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00:00Wait, come here, I want to tell you something.

00:02First of all, I really like your hair color.

00:04Second of all, we want to invite you to see Mean Girls.

00:07Hey guys, we are here with Taylor Louderman,

00:09and I'm so excited because she plays Regina George

00:13on Mean Girls on Broadway, in Mean Girls on Broadway.

00:16So, first and foremost, tell me a little bit

00:18about how you get into this Mean Girl character,

00:21because you're mean.

00:23Well, I have my girlfriends, Ashley Park and Kate Rockwell.

00:26We're backstage for like 20 minutes before we go on,

00:28and it's just the three of us.

00:30So, we'll just mingle, catch up,

00:32because you don't really get to do that on stage.

00:33You have to say your lines.

00:34We'll mingle, catch up, and just feed off of each other's energy,

00:37and then right before we enter on stage,

00:39we're power posing, which do you know what those are?

00:42No, teach me the power pose.

00:43Well, Ted talks about it.

00:44This is probably the easiest one, right?

00:47Just hands on hip, you feel powerful, chest up, right?

00:50The other ones are kind of like this, maybe,

00:52or like this, which is like maybe a little too much to do

00:55in front of people that don't know what power poses are.

00:57I'll do them at auditions sometimes,

00:59and I think this would maybe not look so good.

01:01But yeah, and it tricks your brain.

01:03If you do it for two minutes, they say,

01:05it tricks your brain into feeling powerful, feeling confident.

01:08I'm standing in the power pose right now.

01:10Let's do it.

01:13I love that.

01:14That probably worked really well for your bring it on.

01:16Yeah, because she was a cheerleader,

01:17so I had to stand like this anyway.

01:19But Regina George is very confident,

01:21and Taylor is not as confident as Regina George,

01:24so this comes in handy.

01:25And I've made this her entrance pose,

01:27so for that reason.

01:29So also something that Regina does

01:31is wear six-inch, really high heels throughout the show.

01:35What is that like on stage,

01:37having to do that every single night?

01:39Well, I have to go get foot massages.

01:43And now when I wear flats,

01:44my feet are like, what's going on?

01:45What's happening?

01:46Louboutins are not comfortable.

01:48Sorry.

01:48Tell me about it.

01:49They're not, but boy, they're pretty.

01:51Beauty is pain.

01:52And so you do that amazing walk,

01:54that Regina George walk.

01:56Can you just like demo that?

01:57Can we like demo this walk?

01:59The power pose and the walk.

02:00The power pose and the walk.

02:01Yeah, I kind of just,

02:02she just like doesn't care about anything really.

02:04So her walk is really hip involved,

02:07really stand tall,

02:08and just like not giving you anything in the face, right?

02:12Just dead inside.

02:14Dead inside.

02:15So one more question.

02:17If you could ask Rachel McAdams,

02:18who was the original Regina on film,

02:22and now you are the original Regina on Broadway,

02:23what would you ask her?

02:25Oh my gosh.

02:25I would just want to know

02:26what the whole process was like,

02:28what it was like working with Tina,

02:30working with everyone involved,

02:31with the script.

02:33I really admire her.

02:34I really look up to her.

02:36So I don't even,

02:37I would probably choke up

02:39and not know what to say.

02:40How many of you have ever felt

02:42personally victimized

02:44by Regina George?

02:55Good.

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