Jennifer Coolidge.Photo: Cindy Ord/FilmMagic
“Oh my God, you look like the Fourth of July!Makes me want a hot dogrealbad.”
Begin saying that quote to anyJennifer Coolidgefan and they’ll likely jump in to finish the sentence. The line, from 2003’sLegally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, is one of the acclaimed actress' most GIF-able in her near 30-year career. In fact, it almost earned Coolidge a very on-brand hot dog endorsement deal.
“I was offered one and I turned it down,” the Uber Eats spokesperson, 60, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “It was a hot dog company that just did the meat hot dog, and I eat these amazing plant-based hot dogs. So I said to the company, ‘If you guys come out with plant-based hot dogs, I will definitely do a commercial for you.’ "
Coolidge explains that even 19 years later, thatLegally Blonde 2quote still follows her. “You know what’s funny? Whenever I eat a hot dog, there’s not one person who can keep their mouth shut,” she jokes. “They have to go, ‘Oh, that’s so on brand, Jennifer. You’re having a hot dog! Makes me want onereal bad!’ And I’m like — ‘Look, I’m not making any money off this. I’m just eating this hot dog because I’m hungry and I like this snack.’ "
Though she’s still waiting for that call, Coolidge did get another one, from Uber Eats. She joined Gwyneth Paltrow, Trevor Noah, andSuccessionstar Nicholas Braun in the company’shilarious new Super Bowl commercialreminding people that their service delivers much more than just food.
The spot was teased earlier this month, while a full version premiered online Tuesday ahead of its airing during Super Bowl LVI this Sunday.
“This is my first Super Bowl ad,” Coolidge tells PEOPLE of the commercial, which shows her chowing down on things like lipstick, makeup brushes, paper towel rolls, toilet paper, and more before realizing, “We can’t Eats any of this!”
“Who would have thought? When they told me they wanted to do this, I thought it was a crank phone call!” she joked. “But it’s been so great working with Uber Eats because they’ve really made this into a great business. It’s a concept I didn’t know anything about before I signed up to do this commercial. I thought they just did food, but there are so many things you can have delivered with Uber Eats. It’s just so cool that you can just get on an app and get everything brought to your house!”
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Since the pandemic, Coolidge says she’s been using Uber Eats more and more.
“My life has sort of changed, with these Zooms and everything,” she explains. “Once they show up to set these up, I can’t leave my house. There’s all this stuff that I always need but you’re in this stationary position where you have to host the people in your house so you can’t leave. So we’ve been using it like a storm here!”
“You can get anything; you can get the dog food, feminine products … you can actually send someone out for flowers and candles and they’ll show up before your people arrive,” Coolidge says. “If you came into my house right now and saw what I have: brushes, makeup, eye-shadow, lipstick, lipgloss, powder puffs, fragrances — I love all that girl stuff. Oh, and trash bags. Sometimes you think to yourself, ‘Am I going to have this person show up with just a tiny little makeup item?’ So you add things to your order like trash bags that you know you’ll need down the line. Open my closet and you’ll see, I really do have trash bags for days.”
One thing she doesn’t have? Paltrow’sinfamous “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, which the Oscar winner takes a bite out of in the Uber Eats ad.
“You know what I want to do? I want to have an ass candle,” Coolidge jokes. “I want to be the first that comes up with it.”
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Coolidge says she’ll be watching the Super Bowl this year, though she’s not rooting for a particular team.
“I like the camaraderie, I really do,” she says. “Even going over to someone’s house to watch the game, where there are girls and guys and you’re watching something all together. It’s pretty cool. I don’t eat a lot of stuff that some of my friends eat, but I show up with my popcorn.”
“In winter, we have sort of this empty moment after Christmas and New Year’s, and I feel like the Super Bowl is always there,” she continues. “We need the Super Bowl!”
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And as forLegally Blonde, Coolidge says she’s so grateful to the film franchise for everything it’s given her, even if that hot dog deal fell apart.
“Legally Blondeis the gift that keeps giving,” Coolidge says. “Thank God for those movies, because they really helped me in many areas you really wouldn’t think. I call itLegally Blondekarma; the generosity and support I’ve gotten in my career connected to that movie. And that hot dog quote is part of it — why just the other day, someone sent me a photo of this birthday card a friend had gotten. It’san illustration of me from that hot dog scenethat says, ‘Oh my God, it’s your birthday!’ It’s really cute. And then a few months earlier, someone hada T-shirt with the full hot dog quote on it!”
“I can’t take credit for these lines, I hope the writers make tons of money. But knowing they’re getting greeting cards out of it 20 years later? That’s pretty cool,” Coolidge continues. “Reese keeps promising we’re doingLegally Blonde 3. Imagine the cards that can come out ofthat!?”
source: people.com
