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Fed up with her flaky friend, she spits, “You are a mean girl.”
We love a title drop!
The film was successful, but Caplan felt left behind by the movie.
While Lohan became one of the most famous people in America after the film, Caplan did not.
“I thought that meant that I was off to the races.
And that is certainly not what happened … As a result, fans might have lost track of her career.
She tried to avoid the limelight
Lizzy Caplan had acted before “Mean Girls.”
“You have to court it to a certain extent,” Caplan explained.
“I don’t go out to the clubs like those young Hollywoods.
It’s just not my life.”
She toldThe Independent, “For like a year, I couldn’t get a job.”
These days, she doesn’t think she would have as much trouble in this niche.
That image switch-up landed her a part on “Related,” a drama that aired on The WB.
At first, Caplan was nervous about playing Kat Warbler, afraid she was too close to Janis Ian.
Thankfully, over time, she uncovered more shades of the character.
Unfortunately, it also only lasted one season.
Caplan toldVanity Fair, “[The cancellation] was heartbreaking at the time.”
While he didn’t print her name, culture-watchers pieced together that Perry was writing about Lizzy Caplan.
They eventually fell in love, and Perry almost proposed.
“I loved this woman, and I wanted her to know it,” he wrote.
They wound up going their separate ways.
According to the memoir, they almost reconnected years later.
In fact, Caplan toldVanity Fairthat she hadn’t read the book and didn’t recall sending the email.
“I don’t remember that!”
“You know, I have no ill will.
I hope the book is really successful.”
Unfortunately,Perry died in 2023, and Caplan has not spoken publicly about the loss.
She toldMoviewebthat she tried out based purely on the party scene that opened the film.
(Spoiler: She explodes!)
“It was really harrowing to hear her scream as they were taking her away.”
After “Cloverfield,” Caplan wouldn’t star in another horror film until 2023’s “Cobweb.”
She played Casey Klein, a cater waiter and aspiring actor.
“That experience, being on that set and having those particular castmates and that particular show …
I’m ridiculously proud of the show,” she toldMeaww.
“I think it’s as close to perfect as a TV show can be.”
Caplan could relate to Casey thanks to her own past as a waiter.
She passed appetizers at the premiere of “Being John Malkovich,” and she was ignored.
Caplan recalled to NPR.
Though the show was short-lived, it developed a following that led to a 2023 revival.
Caplan initially wasn’t going to return due to prior filming commitments, but spoilers!
she made a surprise cameo anyway.
“They would have to tie me to the train tracks to keep me away.”
“I don’t want to sacrifice my own goals to be a mother,” she toldElle Canada.
The actor knew how it usually went when two actors had kids.
Instead, she said she was hoping for someone who would be content as a stay-at-home dad.
The following year, however, Caplan met actor Tom Riley in London.
It turned out Caplan had the ring worn on a red carpet before anyone even knew about the engagement.
“This one seems fertile,” he wrote.
“She shall make a satisfactory first wife.”
It seems that the couple loves to tease one another, and Caplan gives as good as she gets.
Now, she’s a two-time Emmy nominee!
Her first recognition came in 2014 when she was nominated for her work on “Masters of Sex.”
In the Showtime series, Caplan played Virginia Johnson, a pioneering sex researcher.
“Late last night, I was online and I decided to read my horoscope for today.
And they were all bad!”
In 2023, almost a decade later, she received a second nod.
This time, she was recognized for her work on “Fleishman is in Trouble.”
She played Libby, the main character’s friend who also serves as the show’s narrator.
In a statement toPeople, Caplan called the nomination a “very lovely and truly unexpected shock.”
She added that most of all, she was happy she got to be on such a great show.
“I’m just grateful I got to do this thing with everybody who was involved.
Making ‘Fleishman’ was an absolute joy,” she said.
“That was the cake, this is the icing.”
He claimed that they didn’t intentionally conceal the pregnancy.
We just … no one asked!”
“Like a confetti cannon,” he joked.
“Like we’re celebrating something awful.”
Riley admitted, “She’s gonna kill me for telling this.”
Motherhood seems to agree with Caplan for the most part.
She added, “It’s like this unrivaled pure joy.”
She toldEntertainment Weeklythat, in particular, she’s obsessed with the “Real Housewives” universe.
She expanded on her love for the housewives in an interview withThe New York Times.
“I find reality television to be so delectable.
I cannot even fully express how much it means to me,” she ruminated.
In real time, you might watch fame ruin somebody and makes them go insane."
The segment required Caplan to identify whether a given quote “Is butter a carb?”
for example, or “I said I’m sorry!
You want me to pop a vein?”
was from a “Real Housewives” show or from “Mean Girls.”
(“Mean Girls” and “Housewives” respectively, for the record).
Can’t argue with that!
She even went backstage to hang out with the cast, according to photos posted onInstagramby E!
Caplan toldUs Weeklythat seeing the stage show made her surprisingly emotional.
In an interview with “Access Hollywood,” Caplan elaborated, “I saw the musical on Broadway.
I was a big fan.
I’m very excited for the movie.”
Thankfully, fans won’t have to wait too long to see what Caplan saw on stage.
The musical adaptation of “Mean Girls” hits theaters in January 2024.
“Mentally, I will always be 22,” she confessed.
“Each job was my entire universe.”
These days, Caplan has other things to focus on.
For example, she loves neighborhood gossip, as she explained in a pandemic-era appearance on “Conan.”
The woman stood in the street and regularly screamed for Celia to come outside.
“It goes on, I mean, for like 45 minutes,” Caplan said.
“The vocal work is impressive!
It’s so loud!”
Furthermore, the recurring incident led Caplan to root for something she normally would be against.
“I don’t like to see people fight.
I don’t love violence,” Caplan insisted.
Caplan hasn’t given an update on whether that ever happened, so all we can do is wonder.
After all, society’s understanding of mental health has evolved significantly since the original film came out.
“It’s a thriller; she remains the bad guy,” she explained.
“But there’s more to the story.”
After all, she showed the film to her husband on the occasion of its 15th anniversary.
“We watched it and I was like, ‘Yeah, I get it!
This is a wonderful movie,'” she toldUs Weekly.
That doesn’t mean she’s not up for bringing Janis back someday.
“I would trust anything that Tina Fey would do,” she toldAccess Hollywood.
“It’s not up to me!”
