Sam Amico
If there’s ever a Jennifer Coolidge biopic, Coolidge has a good idea of who she’d like to portray her in the starring role.
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“If I could choose someone to play me, I think I’d have Jennifer Lawrence,” she told Deadline. “I mean, I don’t know if she’d like it — she’d probably refuse it — but I really like her.”
Coolidge, 60, has become widely known for playing the sultry and eccentric Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus on HBO. But she has appeared in everything from Seinfeld to Frasier to Sex in the City. She also starred in 2 Broke Girls to the animated series American Dad. She even had a part in the Adam Sandler-led flick Click.
As for which of her characters she’s most like in real life, it appears that she doesn’t know the answer. Though she does seem to be leaning toward Jeanine Stifler, the mother in those zany American Pie films. If nothing else, she joked the role resulted in her getting a lot of “sexual action” she may not have otherwise received.
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“I would like to have channeled her in my real life because I think I could have had a much more successful love life,” Coolidge said. “(She) had it going on … really didn’t give a s**t. … What a great thing where you’re not really worried about what people think.”
And some people may think she’s just having fun by naming Lawrence to portray her if ever a movie is made about Coolidge’s life. But hey, it’s evident that Coolidge doesn’t really care.
Lawrence, 32, made a name for herself in The Hunger Games, but has also had key roles in the X-Men series, as well as Joy and Mother!
