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.

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 gro

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