{"id":2173572,"date":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2173572"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:55:09","slug":"lizzy-caplan-says-kelly-osbourne-almost-played-her-role-in-mean-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lizzy-caplan-says-kelly-osbourne-almost-played-her-role-in-mean-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzy Caplan says Kelly Osbourne almost played her role in &#8216;Mean Girls&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2F116091317.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lizzy Caplan nearly didn\u2019t play Janis Ian in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress, 43, appeared on the latest episode of Penn Badgley\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PIx8OamXhqM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cPodcrushed\u201d podcast <\/a>and revealed how she \u201cfought\u201d to be cast in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/18\/mean-girls-author-tina-fey-paid-me-nothing-for-hit-franchise\/\">beloved teen comedy film<\/a> \u2014 and that her role nearly went to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just the funniest script I had ever read. I wanted to be in it so bad. I fought so hard and then it worked out,\u201d Caplan said, adding that she went through a \u201cvery, very\u201d long audition process.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lizzy Caplan on \u201cPodcrushed.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Podcrushed\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lizzy Caplan as Janis Ian in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEverybody had to audition, I think, for one of the two main [roles]: Cady, the Lindsay Lohan part, or the Rachel McAdams part,\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd then they storted us and we\u2019d get called back.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Caplan continued, \u201cI went in and they were resistant to casting me. Somebody reminded me of this recently: the studio wanted Kelly Osbourne to play that role.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lizzy Caplan in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kelly Osbourne spotted out in Los Angeles on October 29. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the film\u2019s hairstylist ended up stepping in to help Caplan secure the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sent the hair person from Canada down to LA and 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,\u201d she explained. \u201d 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<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lindsay Lohan, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\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 Caplan added. \u201cTwo or three times, maybe?There\u2019s a few jobs that if you\u2019re lucky, you really get to go out and celebrate them. And that was one of them. It really was a blast. I loved making that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMean Girls\u201d was directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey, who was inspired by the self-help book\u00a0\u201cQueen Bees and Wannabes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The film stars Caplan, Lohan, McAdams, Fey, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Franzese, Amy Poehler, Tim Meadows and Ana Gasteyer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Amy Poehler, Rachel McAdams in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lizzy Caplan, Lindsay Lohan in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the podcast, Caplan said she had a joyous time filming the iconic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing was in Toronto for probably three months,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe lived in the hotel and it felt like a dorm, which, looking back, was a really important thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Mean Girls\u2019 scratched that college experience itch. It was so fun,\u201d the \u201cMasters of Sex\u201d actress continued. \u201cI believe it was really for for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caplan also remembered bonding the most with Franzese, who plays Janis\u2019 BFF Damian,  and Bennett, who plays<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/12\/21\/entertainment\/jonathan-bennett-reveals-why-he-missed-mean-girls-commercial-reunion\/\"> heartthrob Aaron Samuels. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the greatest time, just bombing around Toronto,\u201d she said. \u201cJust being in a movie felt like such a big deal to me at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzy Caplan nearly didn\u2019t play Janis Ian in \u201cMean Girls.\u201d The actress, 43, appeared on the latest episode of Penn Badgley\u2019s \u201cPodcrushed\u201d podcast and revealed how she \u201cfought\u201d to be cast in the beloved teen comedy film \u2014 and that her role nearly went to someone else. \u201cIt was just the funniest script I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[364346,21741,21993,30520,349712,344465,21912],"class_list":["post-2173572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-classic-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-kelly-osbourne","tag-lizzy-caplan","tag-mean-girls","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Lizzy-Caplan-says-Kelly-Osbourne-almost-played-her-role-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173574,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173572\/revisions\/2173574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}