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There are some actors that are so synonymous with an era that it\u2019s almost impossible to imagine them ever ageing, and if you conjure up in your mind a Hollywood<\/a> movie made between say, the years 1998 and 2002, and make it either a comedy or a slasher, then think of a face to go with it, the face will probably be that of Matthew Lillard. <\/p>\n In fact, you could probably take it further and say, \u201cthink of a kind of skater dude character and\/or a frat boy egging people on to make bad decisions,\u201d and again, it\u2019s Lillard\u2019s face<\/a> that you\u2019ll land on. From 1996\u2019s Scream through to the Scooby Doo movies in the early 2000s, he was seemingly everywhere, either running away from a masked knifeman or guzzling Scooby snacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n His list of turn-of-the-century appearances certainly back up the zeitgeist in which he operated; you\u2019ll find She\u2019s All That, Thirteen Ghosts and the cult hit SLC Punk! \u2013 the story of two geeks who decide to be punks and listlessly ponder the meaning of life. It\u2019s very much a time capsule of the end of the millennium and the unanswered questions people in their late teens had about what might be to come. (Hint, it was a trap).<\/p>\n