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Dazed and Perplexed, the 1993 movie that launched the careers of stars esteem Matthew McConaughey, is turning 25 this month. The decade-defining movie is decided in 1976, and it follows a crew of children in Texas on their closing day of excessive faculty. Hijinks ensue, with hazing, a keg derive collectively, and weed-smoking aplenty. This is what the solid has been as much as within the 2-and-a-half decades since the cult traditional hit screens.
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THEN: Ben Affleck
In Dazed and Perplexed, Affleck played Fred O’Bannion, a senior who eagerly hazed the freshman college students.
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NOW: Ben Affleck
What hasn’t his guy performed? From a success Oscars for Good Will Searching and Argo to star turns in Long past Girl and Batman v Superman: Damage of day of Justice, Affleck has had a stellar profession. Then again, his personal lifestyles has taken a success, as the father-of-three separated from wife Jennifer Garner in 2015 and recently re-entered rehab.
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THEN: Michelle Burke
Burke’s Jodi Kramer tried to defend shrimp brother Mitch from the upperclassmen’s hazing, and became as soon as additionally a part of a surely fascinating dialog about Gilligan’s Island.
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NOW: Michelle Burke
Burke has seemed in on TV shows esteem Criminal Minds: Suspect Habits and The Division, and flicks esteem 2012’s LOL.
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THEN: Jason London
In Dazed and Perplexed, London played Randall “Pink” Floyd, the faculty’s star football participant who had to occupy if he wished to price an anti-drug pledge for the football crew.
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NOW: Jason London
London went on to star in different 1990s classics esteem Tales from the Crypt and To Wong Foo, Thanks for The entire lot! Julie Newmar, and he is gathered a working actor. He’s starred in TV shows esteem NCIS and Grey’s Anatomy. London has additionally tried his hand at producing with the movie The Putt Putt Syndrome.
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THEN: Wiley Wiggins
Dazed and Perplexed became as soon as Wiggins’ first movie role, and he starred as freshman Mitch Kramer, shrimp brother of Jodi Kramer. Mitch gets hazed by the seniors, but by the finish of the evening he’s frolicked with Pink and his buddy, smoked for the first time, and made out with sophomore Julie Simms.
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NOW: Wiley Wiggins
Wiggins has acted in about a movies since Dazed, and he currently runs his personal weblog. In step with the Unusual York Instances, he additionally works in tool, and his CV states that he’s anticipated to graduate from Austin Neighborhood College in spring 2019 with an Associate’s Level in Applied Science, Recreation Building. The Wrap says that Wiggins has worked as a on-line sport clothier.
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THEN: Shawn Andrews
Andrews’ Kevin Pickford became as soon as speculated to throw the finish of faculty keg derive collectively, but his plans were ruined when his oldsters chanced on out. Pickford became as soon as speculated to personal a more in-depth role. “He wasn’t surely getting alongside with everyone. I may per chance possibly converse the actors weren’t responding to him,” director Richard Linklater instructed Maxim.
Co-star Jason London additionally instructed Maxim,“Shawn just didn’t must interact with surely any individual excluding Milla Jovovich.”
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NOW: Shawn Andrews
Andrews starred in 2008’s Repair with Olivia Wilde, a role that won him the Supreme Male Actor prize on the Brooklyn Global Film Festival for the role that identical year.
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THEN: Milla Jovovich
Jovovich played Michelle Burroughs, the feminine friend of Kevin Pickford (played by Shawn Andrews). She became as soon as speculated to personal a more in-depth role within the movie, but director Richard Linklater instructed Mashable, “It became as soon as this tiny part that I believed we would develop, then again it did no longer surely gel, and I may per chance possibly no longer reveal what I promised her.”
Jovovich and Andrews’s on-conceal conceal romance translated to an off-conceal conceal marriage. They were 16 and 21, respectively, and Jovovich’s mother had the marriage annulled two months later.
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NOW: Milla Jovovich
Jovovich starred within the The Fifth Ingredient after Dazed, and he or she’s most acknowledged for her work within the Resident Injurious movie sequence. She starred within the genuine movie in 2002, and reprised her role as Alice, a former safety operative, in all five sequels.
She’s additionally been in both Zoolander movies, and he or she’ll subsequent appear in subsequent year’s reboot of the Hellboy sequence.
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THEN: Renée Zellweger
Zellweger had moderately part in Dazed as Nesi White, and as Linklater instructed Mashable, “Renée would no longer personal a single line, but she’s in each place.” She became as soon as nearly solid within the role of Daria Marks, which later went to Parker Posey.
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NOW: Renée Zellweger
Zellweger has racked up a ambitious collection of trophies for her performing. She won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Mask Actors Guild Awards. The actress is per chance simplest acknowledged for her work within the Bridget Jones sequence, and he or she came abet to the role in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Toddler after a six-year hiatus from performing.
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THEN: Parker Posey
Dazed became as soon as thought to be one of Posey’s first movies. She played cheerleading squad captain Darla Marks, who became as soon as all too desirous to haze the newbies. However while her persona became as soon as the queen of point out, Christin Hinojosa, who played freshman Sabrina Davis, instructed Maxim, “Ben [Affleck] and Parker were amongst the nicest other folks on the fame.”
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NOW: Parker Posey
Posey became as soon as dubbed “Queen of the Indies” by Time in 1997 after her work in movies esteem Birthday celebration Girl and Kicking and Screaming. She starred in blockbusters esteem 2006’s Superman Returns, and he or she currently plays June Harris in Netflix’s Misplaced in Dwelling.
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THEN: Adam Goldberg
In the movie, Goldberg plays Mike Newhouse, who decides to face up against faculty bully Clint Bruno. He called the role “the first role that of course intended the arena to me,” when he spoke with Interview Magazine in 2015.
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NOW: Adam Goldberg
Goldberg seemed in different 1990s hits esteem Bigger Studying and Saving Non-public Ryan and he most recently seemed within the first season of the TV demonstrate Fargo, and he’s additionally worked as a photographer, musician, and filmmaker.
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THEN: Rory Cochrane
Cochrane, pictured on the left, played stoner Ron Slater. Interestingly, his stoner traits extended to genuine lifestyles, as co-star Jason London instructed Maxim,”The closing scene we shot is the closing scene within the movie. We were on a pull trailer past the cameras, and I’ll be damned if Rory Cochrane didn’t pull out an accurate fatty and articulate, ‘Fuck it, man, it’s the closing scene of the movie!'”
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NOW: Rory Cochrane
Cochrane additionally starred within the ’90s traditional Empire Records, and after roles in TV shows esteem CSI: Miami and 24, and flicks esteem Public Enemies. He additionally reunited with Dazed co-star Ben Affleck for his role as Lee Schatz in Argo.
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THEN: Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey’s breakout role as David Wooderson gave us iconic strains equivalent to, “That’s what I esteem about excessive faculty ladies, man. I aid getting older; they give up the the same age,” and “All loyal, all loyal, all loyal!”
McConaughey landed the role after he had a random meeting with casting director Don Phillips at a bar, in conserving with Mental Floss, which ended in his audition. And the relief became as soon as historical past.
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NOW: Matthew McConaughey
After a stint of roles in rom-coms esteem The Marriage ceremony Planner and Straightforward easy ideas to Lose a Man in 10 Days, the Texan actor moved on to dramatic roles in Mud and Dallas Investors Club, which netted him a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award in 2014.
