Renee Rapp

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q64733275: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Mean Girls (2024).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mean Girls (2004): 3 lines

  1. unmapped (meta-joke) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (remake) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.
    “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (tone shift) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Tina Fey: 1 line

  1. unmapped (authorship) · through Mean Girls (2024), which they acted in: Tina Fey ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.
    “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (performance contrast): Angourie Rice → Renee Rapp. Rice is a subtler actress, which is not the skill a musical wants, so she cannot hang with Rapp's outsized, absurdist performer energy.
    “She's actually a much subtler actress, which is not actually the skill you want in a musical.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:57:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (persona): Renee Rapp → Beyonce. Rapp's musical numbers stop the movie and play like a full pop-star turn in the Beyonce and Rihanna vein.
    “She's post-Bonce post Rihanna Wyker.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:56:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (star power): Renee Rapp → Rachel McAdams. The 2004 film's success depended on the anti-chemistry and star power of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, which the new cast lacks.
    “the absence of Lindsay Lohan and the Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams kind of anti-chemistry and star power is a big part of why that movie is so successful.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:57:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Renee Rapp: Rapp's loose publicity tour: she said she dislikes millennial women and called out a tour-company guy named Buddy.
    “she's agist and that she really doesn't like millennial women.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:01:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)