Whatever Happened to the Cast of ‘Varsity Blues’?

When it premiered on January 15, 1999, Varsity Blues hit a landscape primed for its success. The teen film genre experienced a renaissance in the late ’90s, and the high school football dramedy included some of the brightest lights of that era, including James Van Der Beek, one year into his Dawson’s Creek stardom, as her Jonathan “Mox” Moxon, and Paul Walker, whose villainous turn in teen rom-com She’s All That would be released just two weeks later, as Lance Harbor, Mox’s best friend. Varsity Blues was a monster hit with teen viewers, reaching #1 at the box office, earning $54.3 million on a $16 million budget, and jump-starting the careers of Ali Larter, Amy Smart and Scott Caan (Jesse Plemons also had his second-ever acting credit in a tiny role).