Jennifer Coolidge says American Pie got her ‘action’

Jennifer Coolidge revealed the unexpected benefits of playing Jeanene Stifler, aka Stifler’s mother, in the 1999 comedy American Pie.

“I got a lot of play being a MILF, and I got a lot of sexual action from ‘American Pie,'” she said in an Aug. 3 interview. variety“There were so many advantages to making that movie, which is that there are like 200 people I’ve never slept with,” she added. As Scott’s character’s mother, she notoriously seduces her son’s classmate, Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas).

Coolidge is currently in the midst of a career renaissance.Her Distinguished Role as Her Heiress Tanya McCoyd “white lotus” Earned her first Emmy Award NomineeUnlike most of the cast from Season 1, she will reappear in the show’s second season, which premieres in October and takes place in Italy.she also appears with her Reese Witherspoon in the long-awaited “Legal Blonde 3”

For the 60-year-old actor, this recent success came as a welcome surprise. “All my friends are stunned that this nonsense has happened,” she said of her newfound momentum. I’m afraid if I overanalyze it, I’ll ruin it.”