Having most recently starred in films like The White Lotus and The Watcher, Jennifer Coolidge is still regarded as a legendary figure, but she has also utilized her skills to elevate her characters to the status of legendary figures. Say those words to any millennial, and they’ll probably know precisely who you’re talking about. “Stifler’s mom” is the epitome of that.
Jennifer Coolidge originally played the part in 1999, making her debut as the alluring elder character Jeanine Stifler, who utterly mesmerizes the companions of her adolescent son.
Jennifer Coolidge On Her Experience Of Playing A “MILF”
The performer, Jennifer Coolidge believes that if it weren’t for that specific role, her sexual experience may have been extremely different. “I got a lot of play being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie,” Coolidge said in a 2022 interview with Variety.
“There were a ton of advantages to doing that film. I would never have slept with maybe two hundred individuals. After the first film’s commercial success, Coolidge played Stifler’s mother four more times: in American Pie 2, American Wedding, and American Reunion. She bemoaned being typecast, though, in an interview with Variety, saying that no one in Hollywood wanted her to tackle serious roles after she played Paulette Bonafonté Parcelle and Jeanine Stifler in the Legally Blonde movies. “You just have to make decisions about yourself, which is the saddest thing about life,” the woman remarked. “I assume that people believe I’m not capable of it if I’m not landing amazing parts.