Turns out, Lizzy Caplan had to fight to win the role of Janis Ian in the 2004 comedy Mean Girls.

“It was just the funniest script I had ever read,” she said of the film during the Thursday, November 20, episode of Penn Badgley’s “Podcrushed” podcast. “I wanted to be in it so bad. I fought so hard and then it worked out. Everybody had to audition, I think, for one of the two main [roles]: Cady, the Lindsay Lohan part, or the Rachel McAdams part.”

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

She solicited the help of a hairstylist, she explained, who assisted her in coming up with an idea of how the character would look in the movie.

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