Alan Cumming Talks ‘Romy And Michele’ Sequel & Why It Has Taken So Long
deadline.comAlan Cumming is opening up about Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and the sequel that Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are soon to pitch to the studios.
In 1997, Cumming starred in the comedy film as Sandy Frink, the unpopular geek who has a crush on Kudrow’s Michele and turns into a successful businessman after inventing a special kind of rubber.
Sorvino recently revealed that a sequel to the Robin Schiff-created film is in the works. Amid the Television Critics Association winter press to promote The Traitors, Deadline asked Cumming for his thoughts on the long-awaited sequel. “Yes, it seems like it’s finally… they’re doing deals and there’s no script yet,” he told us. “There’s no script yet but it seems like it’s actually … an ongoing situation rather than not.” Cumming addressed the reason why there hadn’t been a sequel despite fan asking for one over the years. “My theory is that because they’re two women,” he said. “If they were two men this would’ve been our fifth sequel by now.
I think the misogyny in Hollywood is huge.” He continued, “I think it’s just taken changes in society and also these many decades for it to happen.
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