Jenna Fischer reveals she filmed “Mean Girls” with broken shoulder
“A big part of my role… was pretending I didn't have a broken shoulder.”
So not fetch! Jenna Fischer is discussing how she shouldered a burden on the Mean Girls set.
Speaking to PEOPLE, the Office star revealed that she shot most of her scenes for the new movie musical with a substantial injury. “I shot for one day on Mean Girls, and then I didn't have to shoot for a month,” Fischer said. “And in that month I went on a ski trip and I fell on a sidewalk and I broke my shoulder.”
In the musical adaptation of the classic teen comedy, Fischer played Cady Heron's (Angourie Rice) mom, the role that Ana Gasteyer played in the 2004 non-musical original.
Fischer noted that she had to intently focus on disguising her injury on camera. “So if you notice in the movie I am exclusively gesturing with my left arm. It was the wildest experience,” she said. “So a big part of my role in Mean Girls was pretending I didn't have a broken shoulder.”
Detailing how the production hid her injury during production, she noted that in the opening shot of the movie, she's in the middle of a field and Cady is singing, and she's holding a crossbody bag. The reason, she says, is because she had to take her sling off and the bag was "serving as a sling for me.”
Fischer also said that she still hasn’t fully recovered from the incident. “I'm still in physical therapy for it. I'm still rehabbing it,” she explained. “It's a complicated injury, as anyone who's injured their shoulder will tell you.”
Fischer recently reunited with her Office costars Rainn Wilson, Craig Robinson, Kate Flannery, Brian Baumgartner, and Creed Bratton for a commercial for AT&T Business Next Level Network. She also relives the hit sitcom on a weekly basis via her rewatch podcast Office Ladies, which she cohosts with former costar Angela Kinsey.
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