The Aaron Samuels depicter reveals he had the habit of hanging up the phone without saying goodbye and that annoyed his former co-star who played Gretchen Wieners.
- Nov 12, 2023
AceShowbiz - Jonathan Bennett ended phone calls without saying goodbye. The 42-year-old actor is famous for playing high school heartthrob Aaron Samuels in the 2004 classic "Mean Girls" and revealed that his co-star Lacey Chabert - who played Gretchen Wieners - actually phoned him back to scold him for it.
"I never say goodbye on the phone; I just hang up because I'm done with the conversation. One time, Lacey Chabert called me back and told me I had to start saying goodbye and that I couldn't just hang up anymore," he told UsWeekly.
Jonathan - who also starred alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried in the film that serves as a parody of the high school clique system - also revealed that whilst his "Mean Girls" character was a football player, he had never even kicked a soccer ball until he was cast in the movie and instead when he was growing up, he performed on a makesift stage as he joked that these days he is "most nervous" around Broadway divas.
He said, "I was the bulldog mascot for my high school because I couldn't play sports or be a cheerleader - I never kicked a soccer ball until I had to on set for 'Mean Girls!' "
"Instead of asking my dad to build a treehouse [when I was a kid], I asked for a stage to be built in my basement with a working red curtain and a spotlight. He actually did it. Meeting a Broadway diva, especially Elphaba from 'Wicked', makes me more nervous than anything in the world. I break out in hives."
The "Christmas on Cherry Lane" star also revealed that he spent much of his childhood flying airplanes with his father and while he doesn't have a license, he has known how to "take off and land" since he was a kid. He said, "I grew up flying airplanes with my dad. I don't have a license, but I've been able to take off and land a plane since I was 10."
