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Has pretty much the entire cast of Mean Girls surpassed Lindsay Lohans career at this point?


Even though Lohan was considered the star of the film at the time? Even Lizzy Kaplan, who played the weird outcast wound up starring in a well regarded Showtime series.

https://lebeauleblog.com/2013/06/23/what-the-hell-happened-to-lindsay-lohan/

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I don’t know .. even with her short peak, Lohan’s peak was pretty high. She was soaring after Freaky Friday and Mean Girls. None of the other girls, at any point, have reached the heights that she had reached

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I would say Amanda Seyfried has soared pretty high. Between Les Miserables and Mama Mia, I would think she's pretty well known. The difference is they cater to a different audience. Les Mis wasn't specifically made with teen and tween girls in mind like Mean Girls or Freaky Friday or Parent Trap were. Seyfried didn't really come into her own until she was older than Lohan, so her more famous films are more adult in nature (and by adult, I mean grown up in general, not R).

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Seyfried was not the star/protagonist of LES MISERABLES nor the MAMMA MIA! movies. On the other hand, Lohan was the star/protagonist of MEAN GIRLS, FREAKY FRIDAY, and THE PARENT TRAP -- all of which were huge hits at the box office!

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Hey Chipper, Seyfried has had long track record starring in MANY movies for 13 years AND an Oscar nomination now. It's pretty safe to say she's surpassed Lohan's peak.

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Yeah, I'd say so. She peaked in Mean Girls, and then it was pretty much downhill from there. Herbie Fully Loaded didn't help, but then Just My Like, which wasn't that bad, kick-started Chris Pine's career while Lohan went nowhere really after that.

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That's a bit of a stretch. McAdams and Seyfried are the only two to either match or exceed Lohan at her peak (excluding Fey). No one else in the cast can say they've experienced the same level of success as Lohan, regardless of the dumpster fire her life and career has become over the past 15 years. Quite frankly, I could see her having a career resurgence as she enters her late 40s/early 50s.

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Rachel McAdams - she was the first one to rise right after Mean Girls. Had another excellent movie, The Notebook, that same year, then Wedding Crashers and Red Eye. Continued her film success in the next 10 years and eventually got her first Oscar nomination in 2015 with Spotlight.

Amanda Seyfried - broke out with Mamma Mia in 2009! Then shot to stardom like super crazy, with Dear John, Chloe, Letters to Juliet, Red Riding Hood, Les Miserables and Gone. Eventually getting HER Oscar nod this past year with Mank.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler - both became huge comedians/actors/writers/filmmakers. Both were in SNL. Has been in other forms of Hollywood like award shows (ex. Golden Globes). All around still making many movies including directing (Amy Poehler in Moxie)

Lizzy Kaplan - took her awhile to really get into the spotlight, but I remembered seeing her in Cloverfield, and she had a small role in 127 hours. BUT then she was in The Interview, The Night Before, Now You See Me 2, the Disaster Artist and the TV series Masters of Sex. She's also getting very famous with other television series. Yep, her career surpassed Lohan too.

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