Lizzy Caplan Reveals She Had to Fight For Her 'Mean Girls' Role

Lizzy Caplan is opening up about wanting to be in the Mean Girls movie.

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.

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While speaking with Penn Badgley on Podcrushed, Lizzy noted that the audition process was “very, very long.”

“It was just the funniest script I had ever read,” she dished. “I wanted to be in it so bad. I fought so hard and then it worked out.”

She added that she also had to audition for a different character.

“Everybody had to audition, I think, for one of the two main [roles]: Cady, the Lindsay Lohan part, or the Rachel McAdams part,” she revealed, adding that the casting team would then sort the auditioners into groups for callbacks.

“I went in and they were resistant to casting me,” she said. “Somebody reminded me of this recently: the studio wanted Kelly Osbourne to play that role.”

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.

“We went to Hollywood Boulevard and put on dark wigs and just anything to send them screen grabs of me looking like a goth kid,” she said.

Lizzy also shared how excited she was to finally land the part.

“I don’t 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,” she said. “How many times has that really happened to you in your career: that you just want to celebrate and it’s nothing but exciting?”

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