Jennifer Coolidge joins the Minecraft movie, thank God
By Dan Selcke
Jennifer Coolidge, who recently won a pair of Emmy awards for her work on the HBO show The White Lotus, is joining the cast of Minecraft, according to Deadline.
What else to say about this...? Minecraft is a live-action movie based on the hugely popular video game of the same name. I have no idea what that means. In Minecraft, you use blocks to build and do anything you want. How does that translate to a live-action movie with a beginning, middle and end? Where does Jennifer Coolidge fit into this? I don't know, but I know she's entertaining.
Coolidge has been having a renaissance of late. She's been acting for decades but really came to people's attention in 1999, when she played Stifler's mom in American Pie, popularizing the word "milf." She showed off her comic chops in Christopher Guest movies like Best in Show, stole both Legally Blonde movies as a daffy hairdresser, and turned up decades later as insecure millionaire Tonya on The White Lotus, where she provided reaction GIFs about how "these gays are trying to murder me":
Coolidge is one of those actors you cast mostly for their presence. You just have to point the camera at her and sit back content in the knowledge that she'll do something entertaining. Just watch her accepting an Emmy back in 2022:
It's great to see Coolidge enter the ranks of acting royalty this late in her career, but I still have no idea what she'll do in a Minecraft movie. Apparently Jack Black is playing Steve, the closest thing the series has to a main character, and he's just a pile of blocks in the shape of a person with no set personality to speak of. Is Black voicing Steve? Is Steve a real person in this version? Who does Jason Momoa play?
I guess we'll find out when the Minecraft movie comes out in theaters on April 4, 2025.
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