Lisa Kudrow tells fans she’s all in for a ‘Romy and Michele’ sequel

Escape your fur trim and lamé miniskirts as a result of “Romy and Michele’s” highschool could have a reunion within the works.

Throughout the purple carpet premiere of “Higher Nate Than Ever” in Hollywood on Tuesday, star Lisa Kudrow stopped to reminisce with ET correspondent Matt Cohen about “Romy and Michele’s Excessive College Reunion.”

“Inform Disney you desire a sequel!” Kudrow advised Cohen, who pressed the 58-year-old actress about the opportunity of revisiting the long-lasting characters. “Robin Schiff will determine it out. She’s acquired concepts brewing.”

The movie impressed a made-for-TV prequel “Romy and Michele: Within the Starting” for ABC Household in 2005, starring Katherine Heigl and Alexandra Breckenridge. However Kudrow could have her sights set on a sequel for herself and co-star Mira Sorvino, 54.

Lisa Kudrow crouching down in a scene from the film 'Romy And Michele's High School Reunion'
Lisa Kudrow starred as Michele Weinberger in “Romy and Michele’s Excessive College Reunion” in 1997.
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Mira Sorvino looking up from couch in a scene from the film 'Romy And Michele's High School Reunion'
Mira Sorvino co-starred as Romy White as the perfect pals made a highway journey from Los Angeles to Tucson, Arizona, for his or her 10-year highschool reunion.
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“Yeah, I might. I believe it might be actually enjoyable,” the “Mates” actress advised Cohen. “After which a bit like, ‘What are they like at our age?'”

The duo was seen collectively just lately final month as they offered the Display screen Actors Guild award for excellent efficiency by an ensemble in a comedy sequence — wearing brilliant pink and blue fits in an homage to the ’90s cult traditional.

And there’s by no means been a greater time for it, throughout an age by which girls are anticipated to “get [their] f–king ass up and work” and look fierce whereas doing it. Besties Romy and Michele had been the late-Nineteen Nineties epitomai of self-made girls who bucked settling all the way down to launch their very own trend line and boutique in Los Angeles.

Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino and Alan Cumming in "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion"
Trend was an important component of the movie about two boutique employees within the late-Nineteen Nineties as they revisit their 1987 graduating class.
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Kudrow’s feedback coincide with the 1997 flick’s twenty fifth anniversary subsequent month. The unique, produced by Schiff, follows because the LA greatest pals return to their highschool in Tuscon, Arizona, for the 10-year reunion of their graduating class. It additionally stars Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming, Elaine Hendrix and Camryn Manheim.

In her present position on Disney+, she performs Aunt Heidi, a former Broadway actress who helps her teenage nephew Nate observe in her dramatic footsteps.

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