Mira Sorvino has confirmed she's been in talks to re-team with Lisa Kudrow for a sequel to their cult 1997 movie Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
The Oscar-winner joined forces with the Friends star to play a pair of ditzy blondes attending a get-together with their childhood friends.
The film spawned a 2005 TV prequel, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, starring Katherine Heigl, but Sorvino hopes movie bosses will agree to bring the two original actresses back for a follow-up.
She tells http://www.moviehole.net/, "Yeah, we've talked about doing another reunion movie. I don't know (if it will happen). It would be 15 (years after the first movie), but we'll see if it ever happens.
"It's just so silly and fun and it really has resonance with various audiences. It's just a fun underdog buddy comedy of two very stupid people who have good hearts eventually, so I like that movie."
Actress Lisa Kudrow put her family tree expertise to good use during a recent appearance on comedienne Ellen DeGeneres' talk show - by researching the host's ties to Madonna.
DeGeneres recently discovered that she and the Material Girl are distant cousins but was too busy to delve into her ancestry - so Kudrow, the brains behind hit TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?," did the work for her.
Appearing on DeGeneres' daytime show on Tuesday, the former Friends star revealed, "You're 11th cousins (with Madonna). What you share is your 10th great grandfather, his name was Martin Aucoin, from France... He had two daughters, Jean... That's your side. And another daughter, Michelle, and that gave rise to Madonna's side, and they moved to Canada.
"Then your fifth great grandfather... he's the one who moved the family to Louisiana in the late 1700s."
A stunned DeGeneres said, "That's pretty far back, that's pretty amazing."
We have bad news to report: It doesn't look like there will ever be a Friends reunion. Lisa Kudrow said to Us magazine that the sitcom gang probably won't be heading back to sip coffee at the Central Perk, or to the famous apartment with the picture frame around the peephole. "Everyone's busy!" she said at an event in Santa Monica.
Even though the actors have all moved on from the show, it seems like the program's producers are the ones with the biggest objections to bringing everyone back together on the small screen. "I guess they don't think it's a good idea," Lisa said.
And even if the former cast was jumping up and down, demanding a reunion, Lisa sounds like she thinks it would be sort of pointless: "It would be fun, but I don't know. How? Why? Really?" she said.
It would be a nice payday for the stars, though. They were making up to $1 million an episode by the time the series stopped in 2004, after a decade run.
There's a mini Friends reunion on Courteney Cox's new show Cougar Town if you're really itching for some new Monica-Phoebe time. Lisa makes an upcoming guest appearance on the show, and it looks like that's as good as it's gonna get.
Courteney Cox Arquette is bringing one of her famous Friends to Cougar Town: Lisa Kudrow will make a guest appearance on the new ABC show, TV Guide reports.
"If it all works out, she'll play a dermatologist that my character can't stop going to even though the doctor is mean to me," Cox Arquette, 45, tells TV Guide. "She's the best in town at what she does and I become addicted."
So will any of her other former onscreen pals make an appearance on Cougar Town?
"I did ask Matthew [Perry] if he'd play my boyfriend on the show," she said. "He thought it was a little too much after Chandler and Monica." (On Friends, Perry and Arquette's characters got married.)
As for her real life BFF Jennifer Aniston, Cox Arquette says, "I'd love for her to be on the show, too. Obviously we can't cast her so close to Lisa’s appearance but if there’s a great part for her, I'd send it right away."
The two famously locked lips on Cox Arquette's previous show Dirt.
The cast of Friends is reuniting to bring the hit TV show to the big screen, according to actor James Michael Tyler.
The series came to an end in 2004 after 10 seasons, but the cast has been dogged by rumours of a possible big screen adaptation ever since.
David Schwimmer denied reports last year that the six core cast members - himself, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry - were planning on starring in a movie.
He said, "There's never been any talk of a Friends film, at least as far as I know."
But Tyler - who played coffee shop worker Gunther in the show - has confirmed the actors are in negotiations to star in a film adaption, set to hit theatres in summer 2011.
He tells Britain's News of the World newspaper, "Friends: The Movie is definitely on. I still keep in touch with a lot of the cast and they say that they are really keen. I am definitely on board to do the film.
"I really loved my time on the show and I am looking forward to meeting up with the old gang again. I just hope we can do justice to the show in a film."
The show's original creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, have reportedly been drafted in to write and produce the movie.
A source tells the publication, "Everyone knew the story had to be right and well written. Getting the creators on board was a massive step forward for the project. The show did lose a lot of its shine in the last few seasons, but with the actors all in the forties it would be a real interest to see how their characters have developed." »
Mira Sorvino has confirmed she's been in talks to re-team with Lisa Kudrow for a sequel to their cult 1997 movie Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
