Mean girls mathlete9/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Kevin Gnapoor, also known as Kevin G., was one of the film’s biggest breakout characters - and one that continues to delight. The lead actor was rising star Lindsay Lohan (known then for Freaky Friday and Parent Trap), but the movie also created an entirely new crop of celebrities. The cast was stacked with Saturday Night Live alum - it was, after all, a production from SNL creator Lorne Michaels - including Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, and Ana Gasteyer. Based on Roseland Wiseman’s nonfiction guide to “the new realities of girl world” Queen Bees and Wannabes, Mean Girls became a surprise box office success, earning over $24 million on just its opening weekend against a $17 million budget. This scene, and tagline, is how audiences first meet Kevin Gnapoor, played by then-unknown Canadian actor Rajiv Surendra. It reads: “KEVIN GNAPOOR, MATH ENTHUSIAST / BAD-ASS M.C.” He wants Cady to join, specifically because having a girl will double the team’s funding, and leaves her with his card. He introduces himself as the captain of the North Shore mathletes, a team that competes in math contests against schools across the state. The wiry Kevin Gnapoor stands eye-to-eye with Cady, though his hair gives him extra height. Fifteen minutes into Tina Fey’s cult classic Mean Girls (2004), lead character Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is leaving her high school math class in hot pursuit of her tall and typical man crush when a classmate she’s likely never noticed stops her in her tracks. ![]()
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