The “Summer I Turned Pretty” star plays Aaron Samuels in the new iteration.
His hair might look sexy pushed back, but don’t expect Aaron Samuels to sing.
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“I was so fine with it,” Briney says of not singing.

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“I don’t want to do that to people.
And I don’t know.
I think if I worked on it, if someone gave me some coaching, I’d be fine.
But it’s also just so different.
The level that the people in this movie are singing at isn’t something you might just pick up.
They were born to do that and I wasn’t born to do that.”
“He’s trying to be good,” Briney says of Cady’s (Angourie Rice) crush.
But given the information he has, he’s trying to be good."
He’s trying to be good…he’s just not singing about it.
For more about the upcoming movie,check out EW’s latest cover story.
Mean Girlshits theaters on Friday, Jan. 12.
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