Jennifer Coolidge’s portrayal of the lanky blonde mother in American Pie brought her unexpected benefits, despite the fact that she received two Emmys and a Golden Globe for her work as the disturbed heiress on White Lotus.
In the 1999 teen sex comedy American Pie, played by a 38-year-old Jennifer Coolidge, Steve Stifler’s mom, Coolidge sent shockwaves through the male audience.
As they prepare for the rite of passage into adulthood—losing their virginity—a group of sexually neglected adolescents make their way through the film.
Jennifer Coolidge reveals that she slept with 200 people after playing Stifler’s mom in ‘American Pie.’
“I got a lot of play at being a MILF” pic.twitter.com/N7druCO14f
— Pop Base (@PopBase) August 5, 2022
One of the boys, playing the role of the alluring Jeanine Stifler and mother to 18-year-old Steve, becomes enamored with the wild lady for three films and needs her help.
The film’s usage of the term “mothers I’d like to f***,” or MILF, helped to popularize the term.
After becoming famous as the MILF mom, Coolidge returned for three additional films in the American Pie series.
Coolidge became a universally venerated sex icon after American Pie.
“Suddenly, people I’ve never met before are asking me to be a part of their projects,” she explained to Variety.
Acclaimed performance
White Lotus, a smashing success on HBO, gave the comic a chance to elevate her career after years of playing naive blondes.
Her portrayal of the narcissistic Tanya McQuoid, one of the few characters to appear in both seasons of 2021 and 2022, earned her multiple accolades, including her first Golden Globe.
#TheWhiteLotus Season 2 and #Halloween on the same weekend?!? One of them is at 9pm tonight on @HBOMax…😍🎉🎃 xox pic.twitter.com/KTxDouXtdF
— Jennifer Coolidge (@JENCOOLIDGE) October 31, 2022
Her beloved character was tragically killed off at the end of the previous season.
I wish I could go along with everyone else. “I simply want to emphasize that I am not being very sporty about it, but unfortunately, there is nothing I can do,” she told Today.
What she meant was that you have to accept death when it happens. The reason being that it indicates they are not inquiring about the sizes of your costumes or anything like that. Here we go again! Something else is required of me. I suppose I need to arrange for something else to take place.
MILF process
Meanwhile, in 2022, while chatting with Variety, the actress who had recurring roles in 2 Broke Girls made a confession that went viral over the world.
See you tonight! Yippee! (Check out my manny 😉 #2brokegirls pic.twitter.com/4Fpnd8A6iv
— Jennifer Coolidge (@JENCOOLIDGE) December 12, 2016
“Being a MILF got me a lot of role playing, and American Pie gave me a lot of sexual action,” Coolidge revealed. Making that film had a lot of positive outcomes. I mean, there are probably two hundred individuals I would have never slept with if given the chance.
She continues, “Perhaps people saw me as Stifler’s mom or the Legally Blonde woman, and that’s why I got this special attention.”
The actor quickly followed up with yet another confession.
By the way, Coolidge did say that in jest when he was speaking with Entertainment Weekly. I spoke the dreadful gaffe of claiming, ‘Thank God for that movie, I got to sleep with 200 men’ or something along those lines, so clearly jokes aren’t welcome in our town. Okay, I wish I could claim that was accurate, but that was definitely exaggerated.
There was only “a little exaggeration.”
According to the Best in Show performer, American Pie had an impact on her dating life that she will never be able to fully describe. “I don’t think” if I hadn’t watched that film. To put it mildly, that decade would have been completely boring.
Coolidge elaborates by saying, “…it did sort of open up the world to a much broader group of handsome men, and younger men.”