“When she’s like 10, she’s gonna be like, ‘This is badass, Mom,’” Seyfried predicted.

Amanda Seyfried shares 8-year-old daughter’s reaction after watching *Mean Girls *for first time

"When she's like 10, she's gonna be like, 'This is badass, Mom,'" Seyfried predicted.

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Amanda Seyfried's daughter has finally been initiated into the *Mean Girls* fandom — but not by her mom.

*The Housemaid *star, who shares an 8-year-old daughter, Nina, and a 5-year-old son, Thomas, with her husband, Thomas Sadoski — recently revealed that she "didn't have any control" over which of her movies her kids watched for the first time, thanks to her own mother and the daughter of Mona Fastvold, her director for her new film *The Testament of Ann Lee.*

While 2008's *Mamma Mia *may seem like the most obvious choice for Seyfried to show Nina first — since it's a film centered on a mother-daughter relationship — it was actually Seyfried's mom who first watched it with her.

Amanda Seyfried as Karen in 'Mean Girls'.

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"I didn't have any control over *Mamma Mia,*" Seyfried lamented in a new interview with *Entertainment Tonight*. "My daughter saw it years ago with my mom ... It's just, it's the movie. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. They play ABBA as I'm coming out, and I'm like, 'I love it!'"

However, the actress admitted that she'd been especially eager to share another one of her performances with her daughter after that. "I think I was most excited about *Mean Girls*," Seyfried said, which makes sense considering how celebrated the satirical comedy is for its exploration of high school's societal hierarchies and the pressures faced by teenage girls.

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That big reveal finally came during a work trip to Zurich, Switzerland, with Fastvold and her 11-year-old daughter, Ada, who was shocked to discover that Nina wasn't familiar with her mother's fine work as Karen Smith, a member of the popular clique the Plastics in Tina Fey's classic film.

"'This is exactly right. This is artful, this is smart, and maybe a little over her head, but what she's gonna take from it is humor,'" Seyfried recalled thinking at the time. "And she can see me in it, and she can appreciate it because everybody else, and Ada, appreciate it."

She added of the moment, "It was very cool."

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Although Nina liked *Mean Girls*, Seyfried admitted that her daughter is "not yet" obsessed with it. "When she's like 10, she's gonna be like, 'This is badass, Mom,'" Seyfried predicted. "But right now, she's like, 'Yeah, it's really funny.'"

On the other hand, Nina loves Seyfried's role as Sophie in the *Mamma Mia *franchise.

Amanda Seyfried in 'Mamma Mia!'.

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The actress told PEOPLE in 2024 that her daughter became "obsessed" with the film after watching it with her grandmother. "She's 7, so she's in second grade, and all her friends are obsessed," she said at the time. "So now they're starting to recognize me as Sophie, which is a little weird, but how beautiful."

"I don't think she quite understands it, but she loves it. She loves it!" Seyfried continued, adding that her daughter is also a fan of its 2018 sequel, *Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again*. "She loves both of them. She's like, 'Can we listen to *Mamma Mia *right now?' Even yesterday. And I was like, 'Yeah, which one — one or two?'"

The *Long Bright River* star is grateful that her daughter loved *Mamma Mia*'s songs as much as she does. "I'm listening to this music with my daughter," she said, "who is now understanding and appreciating it in a way that is trippy."

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