Los Angeles, Feb 24 : Actress Amanda Seyfried says Blake Lively almost lost playing the iconic character Karen Smith in 2004's 'Mean Girls'.

“I’d first auditioned for Regina, and I’d flown out to L.A. for the first time with my mother. It was very exciting,” Seyfried, who was 17 at the time, said of her first film role. “I met (Gretchen Wieners actress) Lacey Chabert for the first time, and Lindsay Lohan was in the room and Blake Lively was playing Karen, and then I was Regina.”