{"id":303138,"date":"2025-11-23T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:18:09","slug":"lizzy-caplan-reveals-she-had-to-fight-for-her-mean-girls-role-lizzy-caplan-mean-girls-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303138\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Caplan Reveals She Had to Fight For Her \u2018Mean Girls\u2019 Role | Lizzy Caplan, mean girls | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lizzy Caplan<\/a> is opening up about wanting to be in the Mean Girls<\/a> movie. <\/p>\n

In a new interview, the 43-year-old actress, who played Janis Ian in the comedy, shared that she had to fight for her role as they were trying to cast someone else instead. <\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

While speaking with Penn Badgley<\/a> on Podcrushed<\/a>, Lizzy noted that the audition process was \u201cvery, very long.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just the funniest script I had ever read,\u201d she dished. \u201cI wanted to be in it so bad. I fought so hard and then it worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she also had to audition for a different character. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody had to audition, I think, for one of the two main [roles]: Cady, the Lindsay Lohan<\/a> part, or the Rachel McAdams<\/a> part,\u201d she revealed, adding that the casting team would then sort the auditioners into groups for callbacks. <\/p>\n

\u201cI went in and they were resistant to casting me,\u201d she said. \u201cSomebody reminded me of this recently: the studio wanted Kelly Osbourne<\/a> to play that role.\u201d<\/p>\n

To try and help her chances at getting the role, Lizzy got help from a Canadian hairstylist to show casting what she could look like as Janis. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe went to Hollywood Boulevard and put on dark wigs and just anything to send them screen grabs of me looking like a goth kid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lizzy also shared how excited she was to finally land the part. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember how long the process was, but I remember getting the phone call and where I was when I got the phone call that I got the part,\u201d she said. \u201cHow many times has that really happened to you in your career: that you just want to celebrate and it\u2019s nothing but exciting?\u201d<\/p>\n

If you missed it, find out other stars who auditioned <\/a>to be in Mean Girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizzy Caplan is opening up about wanting to be in the Mean Girls movie. In a new interview,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-303138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}