New York Daily News Published: June 20, 2004 HOLLYWOOD – [Rachel McAdams] has a highly sympathetic role in her new film, “The Notebook,” opening Friday. So she’s now happy to recount how much her vicious Regina was hated in “Mean Girls.” In “The Notebook,” a romantic drama based on Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel and set
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National Post Published: June 18, 2004 As Canadian actress Rachel McAdams goes from a Mean Girl to lovelorn pretty girl in The Notebook, it seems her acting ability is as versatile as her hair colour The glamour and the excitement of a movie star’s life is something to behold. And some day, perhaps, Rachel McAdams
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Washington Times Published: June 18, 2004 It’s easy to see why young Canadian actress Rachel McAdams has managed to make that elusive breakthrough in Hollywood – the 25- year-old is blessed with being pretty, thin and blond. But the former competitive skater and theatre graduate can also act, as she proves in the two very
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Harbour City Star Published: May 22, 2004 Rachel McAdams hates to admit it, but when she was growing up in the southwestern Ontario town of St. Thomas, there was a time when she behaved like a genuine “mean girl.” So when she was cast for a key role in Paramount’s new hit film, Mean Girls,
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National Post Published: May 5, 2004 As the blong queen in “Mean Girls”, Rachel McAdams is making a name for herself. She’s the 25-year-old actress who’s incredibly proud, but amazingly modest, about the glowing reviews she’s received playing a 17-year-old manipulative control freak. Even better for McAdams, who grew up in St. Thomas, near London,
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The Canadian Press Published: April 29, 2004 LOS ANGELES (CP) – Rachel McAdams is a lean mean acting machine. The small-town girl from St. Thomas, Ont., did not grow up rich, or spoiled or mean, but she’s able to weave all of these qualities into the self-absorbed main meanie in the movie Mean Girls, which
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Canoe Published: June 20, 2004 Rachel McAdams is being just slightly coy, especially for a modest Canadian. During a Los Angeles interview, the London, Ont.-born, St. Thomas-raised, Toronto-trained actress has just heard the suggestion that she is one of the new “It!” girls in Hollywood. The label comes because of her sudden leap to prominence
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The Encyclopedia Canadian Published: August, 2004 Everybody’s eager to please Rachel McAdams. But, frankly, the royal treatment that’s customary for budding starlets gives this Toronto-born actress the creeps. As she says, “The more that’s given to you, the less you have to come up with yourself. And that’s not productive.” As if on cue, there’s
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Dark Horizon Published: April 29, 2004 The new film Mean Girls is not your average Hollywood teen film. Written by Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live fame, this is one subversive look at female adolescence, as the new girl at school [Lindsay Lohan] being befriended and manipulated by three mean girls, led by the cool
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Elle Published: April, 2004 Rachel McAdams has gone glam. Playing the role of a young woman trapped inside the hygienically impaired body of dork in the The Hot Chick may have been Rachel McAdams’ first Hollywood break, but this spring the London, Ont., native ups the glam quotient with her sassy turn in Mean Girls.
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