10 Famous Actors Who Inexplicably Popped Up In Found Footage Movies
6. Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield)
Prior to Cloverfield, Lizzy Caplans filmography mostly consisted of bit parts and small roles on shows like Freaks And Geeks, Smallville, and Once And Again. But by far her most memorable appearance - both then and arguably still now - was her acerbic turn in 2004s Mean Girls, where she played Janis Ian, the aggressively anti-socialite friend to Lindsay Lohans Cady Heron. Despite not being the film's star, Caplan still managed to make a bitingly memorable impression. Which is why, when Caplan first shows up on screen as Marlena during the opening party sequence in Matt Reeves 2008 found footage monster flick Cloverfield, the profound shock that accompanies Caplan's appearance in the film isnt exclusively a response to recognising a familiar face in a found footage movie. but also a visceral reaction to the simple visual of seeing Janis Ian at a party. Mingling. Having a good time. What. The. Heck? Fortunately, Cloverfield moves at such a blisteringly fast pace and crams so much destruction, chaos, and all around ruin into its scant 84 minutes that the shock that comes with seeing the Goth chick from Mean Girls in one of the main roles proves only momentary. By the time that the first big set piece wraps, Caplans Marlena is just another one of the movies assortment of unusually attractive 30-something-faces, fleeing down the streets of New York en masse.
