USA: LISA KUDROW AND MIRA SORVINO STAR IN THE COMEDY "ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION"

Record ID: 386980

  • Title: USA: LISA KUDROW AND MIRA SORVINO STAR IN THE COMEDY "ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION"
  • Date: 25th April 1997
  • Summary: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) DIRECTOR DAVID MIRKIN (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) SAYING I WAS A BIG OUTSIDER AT SCHOOL SO THAT'S WHY I RELATED TO THESE GIRLS. I PROBABLY WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL THREE DAYS A WEEK. THAT WAS ABOUT ALL I COULD TAKE OF IT. SO I WAS ALWAYS KIND OF AN OUTSIDER LOOKING IN SEEING ALL THE CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES AND
  • Embargoed: 10th May 1997 13:00
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  • Location: BEVERLY HILLS AND SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVADNC35I7JC9Y94LN7V6W9W8EOA
  • Story Text: Mira Sorvino and "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow have teamed up in the new film "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion".

    The pair hosted a "come as you were in the 1980's" party to mark the release of the new film.

    Sorvino's significant other Quentin Tarantino, Jon Lovitz, Lori Petty, Carrie Fischer and Kudrow's "Friends" co-star Matthew Perry, were among the celebrities who attended the event -- but not in 80's garb.

    "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" chronicles the trials and tribulations of two girls in the weeks leading up to their ten year high school reunion.

    With the reunion fast approaching, best friends and party girls Romy (Sorvino) and Michele (Kudrow) review their lives since high school and are surprised to find themselves sorely lacking.

    The pair decide to reinvent themselves, concocting fantasies of wealth and success to impress their former classmates.

    Claiming to have invented the post-it sticky pad, Romy and Michele's scheme unfolds perfectly, until Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo) shows up and reveals their true identities: an unemployed former retail salesperson and a cashier at an automobile repair shop.

    The scenario is something both actors can relate to with Kudrow describing her junior high school year as "pretty brutal".

    Kudrow said by the time she entered high school, she had plenty of walls built up.

    "I couldn't be hurt anymore. I just wouldn't have it," she said. "And I actually felt like I outgrew them, you know, the cheerleaders and the jocks and everything. I was really just happy to focus on studying and getting good grades and going to an eastern college. That was my big goal." Sorvino remembers she had a difficult time in high school. The actor recalled when she was sixteen, a boy traumatized her for years by calling her ugly.

    "I was just reading a book, minding my own business," Sorvino explained, "and this guy yells out the window 'Mira Sorvino is ugly(' and I was about sixteen and it was such a horrible thunderbolt from above." Director David Mirkin said he was drawn to the script because he saw himself as an outsider at school.

    "I probably went to high school three days a week, that was about all I could take of it," he said.

    "That's why I could relate to this and then I went to my reunion and it's funny, no matter how much you achieve, when you go back, you're always reduced to the same feelings of insecurity 'cos you're seeing those same faces that made you insecure and it takes you right back to your past."
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