Amanda Seyfried Says Paramount Owes Her ‘Some Cash’ Over ‘Imply Ladies’ Merch

Amanda Seyfried is looking out Paramount Photos for allegedly making financial institution on Imply Ladies merch with out her. 

The actress reminisced in regards to the movie — and the merch that is been offered for it — throughout a latest dialog with Adam Brody, 45, for a brand new Actors on Actors section for Selection.

The dialog, shared on X Monday, June 9, started with Brody asking Seyfried if she’s rewatched the 2004 cult traditional comedy. 

“No, I haven’t. It’s on usually sufficient, although. And you already know what? I find it irresistible,” she stated, briefly pausing to search out her ideas. 

“I actually love seeing my face on individuals’s T-shirts,” Seyfried stated. “I imply, I’m slightly resentful as a result of Paramount nonetheless owes me some cash.”

Her response appeared to catch Brody unexpectedly. 

“For the T-shirts?” the No one Desires This actor requested. 

“For the likeness,” Seyfried replied. 

In accordance with the Lengthy Shiny River star, “Each retailer sells Imply Ladies T-shirts with our faces on [them]. Pictures!”

She tried to rationalize what may have been the rationale for her allegedly lacking out on the cash. “Is it as a result of I used to be 17 and dumb?” Seyfried requested Brody. 

Nonetheless, regardless of her contract with the movie firm, the Mama Mia alum is grateful to those that nonetheless assist her and her costars — Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert within the Tina Fey-penned movie.

“I find it irresistible!” Seyfried continued, recalling a latest encounter with “the woman at TSA” who advised the star that Imply Ladies was her “favourite film.” 

“I’m like, ‘Nice, I used to be seven [teen], I had nothing to do with it,’” she stated. 

Paramount Photos didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Within the 2004 movie, Lohan, now 38, starred as Cady Heron, a switch scholar from Africa dwelling within the suburbs of Illinois as her new highschool’s social outcast. 

There, she meets teen queen bees Karen Smith (Seyfried), Gretchen Wieners (Chabert), and their chief Regina George (McAdams) — the trio fiercely often known as The Plastics. 

Seyfried performed into the “dumb blonde” stereotype and was recognized for her ditzy reactions to simply about every thing within the movie. 

“It was form of like, channeling slightly little bit of Some Like It Sizzling, Marilyn Monroe,” she advised GQ in a March 20 video as she regarded again on a few of her most iconic roles. “I simply held onto that so tight, as a result of I felt like that was the rationale I bought the function, and I didn’t belief my instincts a lot as having a transparent concept of who I believed this particular person was.” 

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In October 2023, the main women had a mini reunion (minus Rachel McAdams, 46) when the three actresses had been spotted with camera crews on a soccer subject in Los Angeles.

Images confirmed all of them with nods to their unique characters, comparable to Lohan carrying a small zipped pouch that learn “Plastics Membership Member.” The actresses later starred in a Walmart commercial together.

McAdams explained her absence to Selection in 2023, stating partly, “I suppose I wasn’t that enthusiastic about doing a business if I’m being completely sincere. I’ve by no means performed commercials, and it simply didn’t really feel like my bag.”