Jennifer Coolidge has made a bold admission about how one role completely overhauled her sex life.
The Legally Blonde actor once famously joked about racking up a whopping 200 lovers after playing the role of Stifler's mom in the American Pie series, saying in a Variety interview: "I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie... There would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with!"
Hyperbole aside, it would seem that one of the 63-year-old's more recent roles earned her even more male attention than playing a character which arguably popularised the acronym MILF, a term which has been cemented in popular culture for evermore.
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So, what possibly could this role be?
We're of course talking about the iconic Tanya McQuoid from the anthology series The White Lotus, if you hadn't already guessed.
Addressing how starring as the very wealthy and eccentric character was met with a sizeable amount of romantic attention in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Coolidge revealed that guys were now more interested in 'complete weirdo' Tanya than Stifler's mom.
"Even though I play a complete weirdo in The White Lotus, cute guys come up to me. And this is far better than American Pie because people were really sad about Tanya falling off a boat," she said, via The Independent.
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"These men like you better because they feel that you went through something. That show really upped my game," she added.
Romantic attention isn't the only thing which Tanya McQuaid would earn Coolidge either, with The Watcher star earning two Emmy awards for 'Best Supporting Actress' before Tanya fell off a boat and met a rather unfortunate end in season two of The White Lotus.
There's certainly a lot of points which could be made about the fact that a 'hot mom' and an obscenely wealthy but emotionally fragile woman are the two character's which are attracting male attention... but hey, we're not here to rain on Coolidge's parade.
As for the 200 guys anecdote, it would seem that the actor didn't intend for the comments to be taken completely at face value, with Coolidge later setting the record straight during a chat with singer and actor Ariana Grande.
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"I did say that jokingly [in a previous interview]," Coolidge told Grande during a 2022 Entertainment Weekly interview.
She continued: "God, you really can’t make jokes in our town, because I did make the terrible mistake of saying, 'Thank God for that movie, I got to sleep with 200 men', or whatever.
"And look, I would love to say that was true, but I mean, that was sort of an exaggeration."
Topics: Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, TV and Film, The White Lotus
Brenna Cooper