Angourie Rice, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Jaquel Spivey star as Cady, Janis, and Damian in Mean Girls. The movie serves as a new twist on the beloved classic and hits theaters on January 12.

New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auliʻi Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

“I feel like my first day of school — I mean it’s funny ‘cause there is a musical number on Cady’s first day of school, but I think my first day of school when I was 12, my first day of high school, I think that would be a really good musical number,” Rice shared, reflecting on what her emotional musical number in real life would be. “I had spent a week coming up with my outfit and it was this stripy green and white top. Maybe it’s called ‘Just Me and My Stripy Green and White Top.’”

Cravalho then told me, “I need to learn when to take a break before I ruin myself, so I think that I would have a really great emotional ballad called ‘Do Less.’”

“I think for me it would be my first date with a man, my first realization of my queerness,” Spivey expressed. “I just feel like that was such a big moment and I feel like it would have to be the 11 o’clock number at some point.”

I had the pleasure of chatting with the trio about what their big musical moment in real life would be and how their understanding or opinions of these characters changed compared to their first time watching the film or seeing the Broadway show.

Watch my interview below: