Lizzy Caplan opened up about how she landed one of her most iconic roles: Janis Ian in Mean Girls . According to the Fleishman Is in Trouble actor, she almost lost her part in the 2004 film to another big name. During a Nov. 20 episode of the Podcrushed podcast , Caplan explained how she “fought so hard” for the role after a “very, very long” audition process, where she was up against Kelly Osbourne.

“It was just the funniest script I had ever read,” she told Podcrushed host Penn Badgley . “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.”

“I went in and they were resistant to casting me. Somebody reminded me of this recently

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