A brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess anda criminal.
Often, the real life person is near-indistinguishable from his or her onscreen character.
He or she might even find their career subsequently scuppered by the role.
This is what the most famous movie nerds look like in real life.
It even led to him starring alongside comedy kingpin Will Ferrell in ice-skating farceBlades of Glory.
To this day, though, Heder is still most well-known for playing Napolean Dynamite.
And, considering its rabid fan-base, it’s doubtful it ever will.
“Iwasinsecure growing up.
I didn’t have dates or anything like that; I was not good around girls.
But I had other ways of defending myself other than being crude and picking my nose.
As she reiterated toGlamour,she’s not Josie Grossie anymore.
“I didn’t get to go to prom.
I remember when we were shooting the prom scenes thinking, ‘This is good enough.
I’ll take this’,” shetoldTodayin 2017.
The cool kids were NICE to Eugene?!
He went deep on nerd-dom withVICEback in 2012, proudly espousing its history as he sees it.
“We all live in three universes.
You have your own universe, the universe of me.
Next, we are all here and this is the physical universe.
Then there is everybody else’s universe.
The nerd is too stuck in their own universe,” he explained.
Deezen even proudly listed his own nerdy credentials, from wearing glasses to being useless with women.
Most notably, Mintz-Plasse’s mother had to remain on set during his sex scene because he was underage.
Maybe the truth is he justisthat kid.
Mintz-Plasse’s audition forSuperbadwas actually his first auditionever.
In reality, life didn’t go so smoothly for actor Rajiv Surendra.
As he detailed toMTV, the actor figuredMean Girlswas his big break and set about aiming even higher.
“I feel as though I spent a long time trying to pretend I was not like Hermione.
“I was the girl in school whose hand shot up to answer the questions.
I was really eager to learn in an uncool way.
In a super uncool way, actually.
And then the character of Hermione gave me permission to be who I was,” she said.
She wanted to be worthy of her, instead of the other way around.
Matarazzo was limited by her role in the hit movie.
As she toldThe Guardian, she continuously heard how ugly and plain she was the older she got.
where she called out Hollywood’s sexist treatment of actresses.
Matarazzo also called for more female representation in Hollywood, both behind and in front of the camera.
