Summary
- Former Dance Moms star Nia Sioux has a couple of small cameos in Mean Girls 2024 that are pretty easy to miss.
- Sioux appears first as a TikTok dancing to Karen's song "Sexy" while getting ready for the Halloween party in Mean Girls.
- Sioux makes another split-second cameo in the social media montage reacting to Regina's fall.
Former Dance Moms star Nia Sioux has a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos in Mean Girls 2004 cast Tina Fey (as Ms. Norbury) and Tim Meadows (as Principal Duvall), whose characters are married in the movie musical.
Mean Girls (2024) and Mean Girls (2004) are available to stream on Paramount+.
While Fey and Meadows are the only stars of Mean Girls 2004 to reprise their roles, original Cady actress Lindsay Lohan has a surprise cameo in 2024's Mean Girls as the Mathletes competition . Mean Girls 2024 also features some brief cameos by Nia Sioux, one of the original cast and the longest-tenured dancer on the Lifetime reality show Dance Moms (2011-2019). The dancer and actress is credited as "Social Media Friend" in her small Mean Girls role, but unless the viewer is actively looking for her, Sioux's cameos in Mean Girls 2024 are easy to miss.
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Nia Sioux's Mean Girls Cameo Comes During "Sexy"
Sioux plays one of the TikTok s dancing in their Halloween costume
In her first cameo, Sioux appears at the 36:58 mark in Mean Girls 2024 during the song "Sexy," performed by Avantika's Karen. At the beginning of the musical number, Karen sings about the duality of Halloween costumes while recording a video for TikTok. After her comical "Sexy" intro ends, videos of other TikTok s also recording themselves dancing and getting ready for the Halloween party surround Karen's video in the center frame and multiply as the song continues.
Starring as one of these dancing TikTok s, Sioux appears in the second row to the right of Karen onscreen with the name "melissaottd." Her character is wearing a red hoodie at the beginning of the video before changing into what appears to be an '80s Workout Barbie costume, consisting of a pink bodysuit, blue tights, and blue headband. Sioux's cameo lasts until the 37:13 mark in Mean Girls 2024, right before Karen arrives at the Halloween party. In the video below, Sioux appears at the 1:22 time mark.
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Nia Sioux Also Appears In Social Media Videos In Mean Girls
Sioux's character s the hate train against Regina George
A little over halfway through Mean Girls 2024, Regina takes a tumble during the Plastics' dance routine to Nahscha's "Rockin' Around The Pole Again" at the school Christmas show. A montage proceeds to play, consisting of photos and videos on social media reacting to and mocking Regina's fall. Sioux makes a brief appearance in this montage at the 1:01:58 mark and can be heard saying, "It's not like we like Regina anyway." She can be seen again at 1:02:05 in Mean Girls 2024 for a split second as clips and images are shown in rapid succession.
Mean Girls is a reimagining of the 2004 classic comedy film as a musical, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. When Cady Heron and her family move from Africa to the United States; she experiences a culture shock when she enters the public school system for the first time. While trying to fit in, she is roped into the popular but superficial and cruel clique, the Plastics.
- Cast
- Angourie Rice, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Reneé Rapp, Tim Meadows
- Director
- Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
- Writers
- Nell Benjamin, Tina Fey
