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The directors of the film musical remake, Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., disclosed in a Saturday interview with The Hollywood Reporter that they had the 29-year-old "Watermelon Sugar" musician in mind for a specific role.
At one point, the two discussed the part they were seeing Styles in while talking about some of the most iconic lines and hilarious scenes from the movie.
“There are certain iconic lines where we would joke that there would be riots in the streets if it wasn’t in there. Like ‘You go, Glen Coco!"
"Give the people what they want. Give me what I want! But when we were like, ‘Who’s Glen Coco?'” Jayne asked.
"Who could it be?" "I remember us going, could we ask, like, Harry Styles?" Perez interjected.
"We were like Harry Styles could be Glen Coco," Jayne concurred.
Jayne, though, had a warning. We love to breach the fourth wall, so we were like, "Hold on, what if we're all Glen Coco? We can all finally feel like Glen Coco after 20 years."
The film presents a new period of the Plastics to audiences, and it is based on the 2018 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the 2004 film.