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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Alison Stine

"I owe my entire life" to "Mean Girls"

It's always a tense part in an interview, the moment where the journalist finally has to ask the question they've been dreading: How does an actor feel about their most famous role, the one from years ago, the one that defined them?

Many celebrities balk at discussing their most well-known character, wanting distance from their earlier work, even if it's beloved. But Jonathan Bennett isn't most celebrities. If this were a holiday rom-com, he would be the actor shooting on location in a small town, who charms and delights the at-first suspicious local residents with his down-to-earth openness and genuine love for the holidays.

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