Alan Cumming says Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion would have had six sequels if men had played the lead role

Alan Cumming rocks Hollywood Romy and Michele’s class reunion got no follow up. The comedy starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino was released in 1997 and despite talks of filming a sequel, nothing ever materialized.

“I would like to do a sequel. I have to say, I think the fact that there wasn’t one is a very good example of Hollywood’s misogyny,” Cumming said. The AV Club in an interview.

The traitors to the United States The host has a theory about why the David Mirkin-directed comedy never got a sequel.

“You know, I think the things I’ve heard about it are like, ‘Oh, you know, they kind of get along, older women, blah blah blah.’ Terrible. It’s such a popular movie. If there were two men in this successful two-man film, we’d have six by now,” he added.

Kudrow and Sorvino starred in the comedy, written by Robin Schiff, about two friends returning to their 10-year high school reunion. As the two prepare to go to Tucson, Arizona in their business woman clothes, they make up a lie about inventing sticky notes to impress their former classmates. Cumming played nerd millionaire Sandy Frink, who always had a crush on Kudrow’s Michele.

In June 2022, Sorvino the fourth hour of Today indicating that there is “nothing official to say” about a sequel, “but I can unofficially say that we are closer than ever to making a difference.”

Cumming said he hasn’t heard of a successor, but said he will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

“I would be very much for it,” he said. “You know, I have such fond memories of that film. And it’s obviously a kind of cultural icon, and everyone of a certain generation is really special to them.

Although Romy and Michele’s class reunion didn’t have a sequel starring Kudrow and Sorvino, but had a prequel TV movie that doubled as a backdoor pilot. Titled Romy and Michele: In the beginningstarred Katherine Heigly and Alexandra Breckenridge in the 2005 ABC Family film about high school friends who move to LA to seek the rich and famous.