Jennifer Coolidge has revealed in a new interview that her role in American Pie was responsible for bedding some 200 people.
Coolidge’s remarks comes amid a flurry of developments around The White Lotus’ second season. Premiering in 1999, American Pie marked Coolidge’s breakthrough role, playing a sultry mother who courts the attention of her teenage son’s friends. I mean there would be, like, 200 people that I would have never slept with.”
Jennifer Coolidge has reflected on her personal life after playing Stifler's mother in the racy teen comedy American Pie.
It goes to show, you should always be in the best shape because you just don’t know.” “If Mike was never successful, and we just did White Lotus as a play in a little theatre where everyone paid 10 bucks to see it, it would still be one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. The actress briefly appeared in American Pie 2.
Hollywood actress Jennifer Coolidge dey trend afta her cover shoot interview wit tori pipo for Variety magazine, wia she tok about her private life.
"I dey so happy for American Pie and di MILF thing. "So many benefits dey for me as I do dat movie. I pick great friends. If Mike no dey successful, and we bin do ‘White Lotus’ as a play for little theatre wia everyone pay 10 bucks to see watch am, e for still be one of di greatest things wey ever happun to me. Afta di success of American Pie, she don act similar roles to Stifler's Mom for her movies. Di 60 year old wey become popular sake of di role she play for one sex comedy feem, American Pie, for 1999 tok wetin di role don change for her life.
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A part of her is always battling, as a lot of actors are, that idea of the response that people have to her.” Having worked with her across decades, Guest says that Coolidge is “a very regular person” with little in common with the characters she creates. It’s a gift she put to use on the first season of “The White Lotus,” in which she dominated scenes simply by casting out fearful or manic or unsteady vibes, even when not at the center of the frame. They didn’t have to say a word — in that silence of him looking up at her, everything that they had done together was put into that moment where no one had to say anything. Guest recalls what is perhaps Coolidge’s most famous scene in “Best in Show,” in which she haltingly rattles off what she loves about her catatonic husband while he sits, mute, beside her: “I could go on about the things she said, but they come from this unique place. “When I met her,” Guest says, “I knew there was something going on that was special. I mean behaves the way she behaves.”
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Jennifer Coolidge has played her fair share of memorable roles, but it seems one in particular has taken the horny biscuit.
The cameo immediately dubbed her as a MILF among a generation – a title Coolidge has accepted proudly. In the film – and subsequent sequels – Coolidge cameos as Jeanine Stifler and has a fling with her son’s classmate Paul Finch, while leaving all his friends speechless with her sexual allure. Jennifer Coolidge has played her fair share of memorable roles, but it seems one in particular has taken the horny biscuit.
Coolidge, 60, portrayed Jeanine, the mother of Stifler (Seann William Scott) who has a fling with her son's classmate Paul Finch, played by Eddie Kaye Thomas.
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"I got a lot of sexual action from 'American Pie.' There were so many benefits to doing that movie," Coolidge told Variety.
If Mike was never successful, and we just did White Lotus as a play in a little theater where everyone paid 10 bucks to see it, it would still be one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. "If I'm not getting great roles, I come to the conclusion that people think I'm incapable of that. There would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with!"
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‘There were so many benefits to doing that movie. Jennifer, 60, played the iconic MILF (Mother I’d Like To F**k) Jeanine Stifler – better known as Stifler’s Mom – in the American Pie series, and the sex appeal she exuded in the role ended up extending into real life. Stifler’s Mom might be one of Jennifer Coolidge’s most iconic roles, but her time in American Pie had an unexpected benefit for the actress – she ended up sleeping with 200 people because of it.
Actor Jennifer Coolidge, who played Stiflers mom in the 'American Pie franchise, recently revealed details of her sex life after portraying her character.
However, she credited one of her girlfriends for talking her out of it and making her accept the role. She said that she had done one right thing in her life, and that was choosing great friends. She said that she let go of everything in her life during the pandemic. Coolidge stated that the movie gave her a lot of benefits, sexually. Last year, when the role was offered to her, Coolidge almost turned it down because of being overweight. She stated that she had numerous sexual encounters with multiple partners after the movie.
"I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie," she told Variety. "There were so many benefits to doing that movie.
"There were so many benefits to doing that movie. I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with." "I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie," she told Variety.
Jennifer Coolidge joked that she 'got a lot of action' on the back of her infamous role.
I was reading tragic news stories on a daily basis, had a fatalistic approach and assumed the virus was going to win. "The fear is gone when you're so used to losing. The 60-year-old became a household name on the back of the movie franchise's success, even making the term 'MILF' (Mother I'd Like to F***) popular as it's featured heavily in the film.
Back in 1999, the cult-classic sex comedy American Pie was released in theaters — and quickly became a huge success. Kevin Winter / Getty Images ...
“A lot of my life was chasing unattainable men, and it got me nowhere.” Speaking with Variety this week, Jennifer divulged that she “got a lot of play” out of “being a MILF” in the American Pie flicks. “I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie,” she said.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE cheekily claimed she slept with 200 people following the success of cult comedy classic American Pie.
Speaking to Variety, she said: "There were so many benefits to doing that movie. American Pie star Jennifer Coolidge has confessed to sleeping with 200 people that she wouldn't have done had it not been for the success of the hit 1999 comedy. The actress has since been nominated for an Emmy award for her role in the HBO series and admitted she was "surprised". "Ten years of my life of auditioning, none of it added up to a job," she told the same publication. "The greatest thing was that no one knew if it was going to be anything!" After becoming an overnight sensation playing Stifler's mum, the actress joked she "got a lot of play at being a MILF" and "a lot of sexual action from American Pie" in 1999.
Jennifer Coolidge revealed in a new interview that she slept with 200 people thanks to role as a MILF in American Pie. Read more here.
Originally slated as a limited series, The White Lotus has been renewed for a second season slated to premiere in October 2022. Though Jennifer Coolidge is experiencing a career renaissance thanks to an Emmy-nominated role in HBO’s anthology show The White Lotus, her unforgettable turn as “Stifler’s mom” in the American Pie franchise has brought her more personal satisfaction. “There were so many benefits to doing that movie.
Jennifer Coolidge says her memorable role in raunchy teen comedy "American Pie" came with benefits -- and she's not talking about her residual checks.
"It's a miracle that happened. What a fluke, you know?" "I wanted to look a certain way when you're on film ... I was not ready for this cool opportunity.
Jennifer Coolidge is already a big star, but her first Emmy nomination, for "The White Lotus," is next-level. To her, that's both thrilling and scary.
The success of “The White Lotus,” and then her Emmy nomination, has juiced her career to a point that is, to her, still a bit baffling. Though,” she adds, “the woman who had been the original Mrs. McGillicuddy got her part back, so that was good.” “When I was in rehab,” she says, “we had to go around the room and talk about our goals. She rattles off the list of projects she has done since the first season of “The White Lotus,” which includes Ryan Murphy‘s “The Watcher.” “I have been going from one airport to another,” she says. When it came time to film “White Lotus,” she drew on another overseas adventure with White. “He was going on safari and at the last minute his boyfriend couldn’t come so he asked me because I am obsessed with animals. Her point is that you start with wild ambitions and then, if you really want to be in the business, you have to adjust. She seems very kind, admits to not understanding “technology” and, on the way to the bathroom, uses the word “tinkle,” which is adorable. She famously did not get her big “break” until, at age 31, she was cast as one of Jerry’s girlfriends in “Seinfeld.” So when he asked her to be in “White Lotus,” she was a bit confused. Also, she managed to snag a really good room in the nameless second-season hotel (rumor has it as the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace) because “I was the last one to arrive and this room had just opened up. Two: She is working with a trainer, running up and down the steps of the Hollywood Bowl. “It’s killing me and just as I get up to the final step, there is this family, scattering someone’s ashes and — I swear to God this is true — I inhaled a face-full of those ashes. The sadness and the guilt — you think you have so much time and then you don’t.”
The Emmy-nominated actress says playing Stifler's mom directly impacted her personal life: “I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie.”
“I think mine would be like, ‘If any of you girls say anything cunty to me, I’m gonna beat the shit out of you.’” “I got a lot of play at being a MILF, and I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie,” an arch Coolidge shared. Though she may be better known for starring as Paulette in Legally Blonde, or as a member of Christopher Guest’s repertory company, or for her recent Emmy-nominated turn in HBO’s The White Lotus, Coolidge says that playing the archetypal “MILF”—the object of Finch’s (Eddie Kaye Thomas) affection—may have had more of a direct impact on her personal life.
"The White Lotus" star reflected on the impact of her "American Pie" character during an interview for her Variety cover shoot published Wednesday.
She added: "People see you in a certain way and it’s impossible to undo it. "Some directors really don’t want to see what you have," Coolidge explained. "Do I have to answer that?