Jennifer Coolidge's [1] "bend and snap" [2] scene from "Legally Blonde" [3] is pretty iconic, but the actor herself doesn't feel like the move makes sense in real life.
"The 'bend and snap' is a moment in moviemaking I would just totally disagree with," Coolidge said in a recent interview with Deadline [4]. "I've never had bending over work for me like it did in that movie. I think that the bend and snap is misleading."
She went on to explain how to make the move work in the real world. "I'd have to say when I did do the bend and snap, I was wearing my underwear, and I feel like in real life you have to leave it off," she said.
Coolidge is currently in the middle of a slew of successes. Not only is she reprising her role as lovable nail tech Paulette in "Legally Blonde 3" [5] — she's also returning to her role as Tanya McQuoid in the second season of "The White Lotus." [6] And while the "bend and snap" might not have worked for her in real life, starring in "American Pie" apparently did.
In a 3 Aug. interview with Variety [7], Coolidge said her role as Jeanine Stifler, also known as Stifler's mom, in the 1999 comedy got her laid by some "200 people." [8]
"I got a lot of play at being a MILF, and I got a lot of sexual action from 'American Pie,'" she told Variety. "There were so many benefits to doing that movie. I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with."
