Jennifer Coolidge Says Playing Stifler's Mom in 'American Pie' Helped Her Sleep With '200 People'

Jennifer Coolidge has revealed the unexpected benefits of playing Jeanine Stifler, also known as Stifler's mother, in the 1999 comedy "American Pie."

"I had a lot of fun being a MILF, and I had a lot of sex action with 'American Pie,'" she said in an Aug. 3 interview with Variety. "There were so many upsides to doing this movie. I mean, there would be about 200 people I would never have slept with," she added. As the mother of Seann William Scott's character, she infamously seduces her son's schoolmate Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and apparently her sexual prowess in film has translated into real life.

Coolidge is currently in the midst of a career renaissance. Her outstanding role as heiress Tanya McQuoid in "The White Lotus" earned her her first Emmy nomination. Unlike most of the Season 1 cast members, she will reappear in the show's second season, which premieres in October and is set in Italy. She will also star alongside Reese Witherspoon in the highly anticipated "Legally Blonde 3".

For the 60-year-old actor, all of this recent success comes as a welcome surprise. "My friends are all surprised that this random thing happened," she said of her newfound momentum. "My life has been going in a certain direction for a very long time. I'm afraid that if I analyze it too much, I'll mess it up."

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