To an entire generation of guys, Jennifer Coolidge will forever be known as the age-inappropriate seductress from the American Pie movies, the mother of Seann William Scott’s bro-y douche who becomes a near-mythic object of desire for many of the teenage characters.
That movie helped to coin the term “MILF” (an acronym of “mom I’d like to f***”), a piece of slang which is still widely used two decades later, but as Coolidge herself revealed in a new interview with Variety, her role had a long-lasting legacy in her private life as well.
“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. I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would have never had slept with.”
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If she’s serious, good for her. If she’s not, then it’s an example of the comic timing and delivery that have held her in such good stead throughout her career.
Coolidge followed the American Pie movies with standout supporting roles in Legally Blonde and A Cinderella Story and then a regular scene-stealing gig on the sitcom 2 Broke Girls, where her larger-than-life character Sophie had a lot in common with Stifler’s mom—but she is perhaps best known for her performances in several of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary comedies as a part of his longstanding repertory of actors which also included Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy.
Most recently, she earned a Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination for her role in HBO’s critically lauded satirical dramedy The White Lotus. In her Variety profile, it is noted that Coolidge is currently tipped to win, as her character Tanya marked such a clear departure from the broader comedy fare for which she has become known.
“Maybe I got this special attention because people saw me as Stifler’s mom or theLegally Blonde woman,” Coolidge reflected. “So if they see something else…”
Philip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV.
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