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Jennifer Coolidge said she would have slept with 200 fewer people if she had not landed her infamous role in the American Pie franchise two decades ago.After becoming a nearlyovernight sensation playingStifler's Mom, the 60-year-old actress admitted that she 'got a lot of play at being a MILF' and 'a lot of sexual action from American Pie' in 1999.'There were so many benefits to doing that movie. I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with,' the Legally Blonde star toldVariety.

Jennifer Coolidge "got a lot of play" after taking on the role of Jeanine Stifler, "Stifler's mom," in the 1999 movie "American Pie." Coolidge, 60, spoke to Variety and shared the "benefits" of her role as a "MILF" in the film. "I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from ‘American Pie,'" she told the outlet. "There were so many benefits to doing that movie.

Jennifer Coolidge is doing better than ever as the lauded lead actress of the critically acclaimed hit series The White Lotus, which will debut its second season in October.And while the cover subject of the new issue of Variety, the Legally Blonde star looked back on her years of struggle before she landed her own show.The 60-year-old beauty shared that after so many decades of rejection she became fearless because she felt she had nothing to lose.'Ten years of my life of auditioning,' she told the magazine, 'none of it added up to a job. The fear is gone when you're so used to losing.

told Variety that “American Pie” brought her more satisfaction than just fame.“I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from ‘American Pie,'” she said. “There were so many benefits to doing that movie.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticGet ready to check back into “The White Lotus.”HBO’s anthology series about life among the wealthy and dissatisfied at a chain of upscale resorts will premiere its second installment in October, Variety can exclusively reveal.The Mike White-created series is shifting the action to Sicily, where new hotel staffers and new guests will face off; Jennifer Coolidge, this week’s Variety cover star, is the only series regular to be returning, as she reprises her role as spiritually seeking socialite Tanya McQuoid. Above, check out Coolidge in Euro-glam mode in the exclusive first image released of the new season.In its initial, Hawaii-set season, which aired in the summer of 2021, “The White Lotus” was a sensation, immediately pulling in 1.9 million viewers across linear and digital platforms for its finale, a number that only grew from there.

Jennifer Coolidge’s agent came to her with an offer: A theater in London was putting on a production of the musical “Legally Blonde,” based on the 2001 film in which Coolidge played the lovably dizzy manicurist Paulette. (The seductive “bend-and-snap” move Paulette practices on film? In the show, it’s a whole number.) And the theater wanted her to audition.“I said to my agent, what do you mean, audition?” she recalls.

The long-awaited “Legally Blonde” threequel is taking inspiration from an unlikely source.

HBO Max has given fans a sneak peek into season two of its dark satire The White Lotus.In a brief teaser posted by the streamer, Jennifer Coolidge, 60, and Jon Gries, 65, return as Tanya McQuoid and Greg after leaving The White Lotus in Hawaii together.This next season takes place in Sicily, Italy, and the teaser shows the duo exploring the sights on Vespa together. That's amore!HBO Max has given fans a sneak peek into season two of its dark satire The White LotusNew additions to the cast - Aubrey Plaza, Will Sharpe, Theo James, and Meghann Fahy - are then seen clinking glasses as they arrive to the resort.'Welcome to The White Lotus in Sicily!' an employee tells the group as they share a drink by the waterfront.

is returning — as are some familiar faces!HBO Max dropped the teaser trailer promoting their upcoming slate of new shows, which featured the first footage of the forthcoming second season of the hit dark dramedy. Although brief, the teaser does give fans a quick look at the next installment of the story, set in Sicily.Jennifer Coolidge is set to reprise her character, Tanya McQuoid, which fans were already knew was the plan when the casting news was announced earlier this year.However, it appears that Jon Gries — who played Greg, a White Lotus guest that falls in love with Tanya in season 1 — will also be returning, as evidenced by a scene of Greg and Tanya riding on a motorcycle through the Sicilian countryside.The show was originally conceived of as a limited series that would follow the lives of the guests and staff members at a Hawaiian resort known as The White Lotus.However, after the show's massive commercial and critical success, it was picked up as an anthology series, in which each season would take place at a different White Lotus resort across the globe.Many new stars are set to join Coolidge and Gries for the new season, including F.

Carson Burton Get ready, Sicily, because “The White Lotus” Season 2 is coming. The first footage from the acclaimed resort-set comedy’s new season has been  released by HBO Max courtesy of a new preview of TV shows “coming soon” to the streamer. The footage provides a first look at the new lineup of characters at the center of Season 2, officially titled “The White Lotus: Sicily.”The short clip includes a picturesque shot of Jennifer Coolidge riding along the Italian coast on a moped.

Wilson Chapman editor“Ten Year Old Tom” has been renewed for a second season at HBO Max.The announcement was made during a panel at Rooster Teeth’s RTX Festival, a convention dedicated to podcasting, video games and animation.The animated series is created by Steve Dildarian, and is a spiritual successor to his HBO series “The Life and Times of Tim.” The show follows Tom, an average kid struggling to navigate childhood who is surrounded by well-meaning adults with questionable guidance. Season 1 consisted of 10 30-minute episodes, each of which consisted of two quarter-hour segments.Dildarian writes and directs the series in addition to voicing Tom.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has ordered a second season of adult animated series Ten Year Old Tom, from Steve Dildarian, animation veteran Nick Weidenfeld and Tomorrow Studios. The renewal is being announced today at Rooster Teeth’s RTX festival in Austin.

It’s not often an actor can work for 35 years and suddenly make the leap into serious, household-name fame. But that’s precisely what happened to Murray Bartlett. The Australian began acting back in 1987, and while he’s landed a plethora of projects in his career, he says, “I haven’t really had that many choices along the way.” Then came The White Lotus. And Bartlett’s portrayal of fussy, tortured hotelier Armond took him from working actor to the kind of famous that inspires Halloween costumes and selfies on the street.

Jennifer Coolidge recalled a vacation story with “White Lotus” writer-director Mike White, which she believes inspired her character Tanya’s hookup in season 1 of the HBO comedy-drama.

Tara McNamara Few people weren’t dreaming of travel in August 2020, arguably the most stir-crazy moment of the COVID-19 quarantine, with tensions boiling over after a divisive election and widespread protests, all while wildfires threatened the West Coast.Mike White, for one, funneled the escapist fantasy into the ugly reality of the beautiful people, translating the moment’s tensions and the zeitgeist into “The White Lotus,” a dark comedy about affluent Americans on holiday at a luxurious Hawaiian resort and the staff who cater to them. Moving as fast as the flames raging around Southern California at the time, White wrote the pilot for the six-episode HBO limited series near the end of the summer before heading to Hawaii to begin prepping production.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOne of the key character traits of snotty college duo Olivia (Sydney Sweeney) and Paula (Brittany O’Grady) on HBO’s “The White Lotus” is their choice of poolside reading material. They’re skimming through Nietzsche and Freud when not casting side eye and throwing withering commentary about the people around them.Later, they also pick up Frantz Fanon, Camille Paglia and Aimé Césaire. But Sweeney, speaking Saturday at the ATX TV Festival in Austin, revealed something more about that character: She believes it’s all an act.

HBO series The White Lotus.The actor, known for playing Jeanine Stifler in American Pie, beautician Paulette in Legally Blonde and gold digger Sherri Ann Cabot in 2000 film Best In Show, discussed how she felt “locked” into certain roles over the past decade.Speaking to Vanity Fair in conversation with American Pie co-star Natasha Lyonne, Coolidge said: “I did these jobs that I felt like locked me into a certain perception. I was in this weird bubble for a really long time.

Heartstopper star Joe Locke has revealed he wants American Pie‘s Jennifer Coolidge to play his grandmother in season two of the Netflix show.Based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novel of the same name, Heartstopper tells the story of school students Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) and Charlie Spring (Locke), who strike up a romantic relationship after being seated next to each other in class.A second season is yet to be officially announced by Netflix, but Locke is clear on who he wants to join the cast for the show’s eventual return.In a wide-ranging interview with Variety, the actor said that he wants Coolidge to play his grandmother, since Connor has Olivia Colman portraying his mother in season one.“Jennifer Coolidge should play my grandmother,” he said. “That would be so cool.

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Aubrey Plaza covers the latest issue of Cosmopolitan, and in the accompanying feature the former “Parks and Recreation” star teases her role in the upcoming second season of HBO comedy “The White Lotus”.

Mindy Kaling is offering a update. The multi-hyphenate is hard at work writing the script for the anticipated follow-up in Reese Witherspoon's iconic movie franchise, and revealed to ET's Matt Cohen why she's taking her time crafting the story. «I love this project. I am so excited about it.