Mean Girls Star Chris Briney Hot Take on Aaron Samuels

January 12, 2024 @ 12:23 PM

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” and “Mean Girls” star Christopher Briney contrasts his personality Aaron Samuels to a seesaw in Tina Fey’s newest performance of the 2004 senior high school film currently converted right into a quasi-adaptation of the Broadway musical.

As the movie’s main sweetheart, Briney’s Samuels beings in front of Angourie Rice’s Cady Heron in calculus course where she succumbs to him from the start. However when her crush on him emerges to Reneé Rapp’s Regina George, that dated him prior to Cady reached North Coast High, he winds up back in Regina’s clutches.

“He’s important in this story. He unintentionally stokes the flames of this feud and he becomes a little pawn in each of their games. Both Regina and Cady take their turns pushing him back and forth,” Briney informed TheWrap. “It’s a bad analogy, but he’s good. He’s a good person at the end of the day. He’s one of the few people whose arc is not like good or bad. He’s just sort of there and he takes some blows.”

Regardless of his much less energetic standing as a personality, Briney enjoyed damaging the 4th wall surface in scenes like Cady’s houseparty, readied to the tune “Someone Gets Hurt,” which Rapp sings. He had not been eager on vocal singing in the film musical like his costars however. “I wish I got to be a part of Kevin G’s rap. I think that’d be really funny. Obviously, there’s no reason for Aaron to be there but I would have loved to see it,” he stated.

Once the vocal singing need was eliminated, Briney returned around to the duty with his wish to collaborate with Tina Fey.

“It’s hard to not want to do and be a part of something like this [that’s so] iconic and cool. A big part of it is I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to work with Tina [Fey] again. That is one of the coolest things I can say that I’ve done in my life,” he stated. “I like how Aaron specifically is this character [who] is a witness to everything. So it was just a place like, how could you not want to be there?”

He would certainly damage down laughing in the visibility of Fey, whose creating he adhered to while including an improvisated response below or there.

“I don’t think I would ever touch Tina’s writing. I could never do something better,” he included. “There might have been a few moments where reactions and things like that were encouraged, and maybe a time or two there were some lines changed, but that was always from the other room because I can’t. It’s Tina’s words. I couldn’t do better.”

“So many of the things in this movie, and the humor of it, when you think about it for a second you’re like, ‘Wait, what are we doing? What’s the bit here?’ It’s really funny,” Briney stated. “I remember when we were on the first day of calculus class and Tina was standing at the board. She’s so funny, man. She’s just so good at what she does. I was definitely laughing there, and I’m sure other times.”

When It Comes To where Aaron drops in the social pecking order of North Coast’s adolescent forest Briney had a photo in his mind.

“I always thought he was a floater,” he stated. “He’s friends with the people he plays soccer with [but] most often he’s sitting there. I don’t think he has strong beef with anybody. He really is cool with everybody.” However when inquired about whether Aaron might wind up in the Burn Publication, he included, “Maybe not. I feel like at one point, because he and Regina, broke up there’s something in there.”

Briney made it a factor not to rewatch the 2004 movie in getting ready for the duty of Aaron since he felt he could not recreate that efficiency.

“I just want to read the script and take whatever I get from the page and trust that Tina and our directors would push me in the right direction,” he stated. “It’s different because I’m playing him and I don’t really know what that means yet.”

Supervisor Samantha Jayne remembered not completely recognizing the “whole Connie baby fervor around him” from his duty in Prime Video clip’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”

“It was like ‘My god, the power this boy holds is strong,’” Jayne stated.

Supervisor Arturo Perez assumes Briney’s beauty is what strengthened him in the duty.

“Chris is so damn naturally charming. He’s just so charming. That is him. He is that cool,” Perez stated “We had no idea [about his “Summer I Turned Pretty” popularity] We were out below making a motion picture with our good friend. He’s so genuine which’s what individuals like concerning him. He’s simple.”

When It Comes To what’s following past the 3rd period of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” Briney isn’t fairly certain, however he intends to do something various.

“I would love to do a lot of different things. I’d love to do something out of a love triangle,” he stated. “We’ve seen it. We just don’t need to see it anymore.”