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"Clueless" Turns 25: E! News Rewind
Alicia Silverstone botching the relation of Cher Horowitz? As if.
And, yet, the histrion was filled with trepidation the archetypal clip she considered revisiting her iconic Clueless role. Launching her TikTok leafage successful 2021 with a reenacted scene from the beloved 1995 flick, "I felt precise shy astir it," the 44-year-old admitted to E! News successful an exclusive interview. "I cognize that's what everybody wants and it makes maine truly uncomfortable due to the fact that it's scary! Like, what if I don't bash it well? I was a small miss erstwhile I was doing that. And present I'm a woman. So it feels silly."
Yes, that sounds mode harsh. But those were the thoughts moving done her caput erstwhile she teamed up with Rakuten to movie a 2023 Super Bowl commercial that saw her instrumentality to statement class, arguing the merits of utilizing the buying level to people currency backmost connected purchases from your go-to brands.
Directed to play with a portion of gum, a motion to the archetypal "We can certainly enactment with the Haitians" scene, Silverstone admittedly "had this imaginativeness of myself, like, the ugliest aged woman with gum each implicit her face. In my head, determination was nary mode it would beryllium good."
Standing successful beforehand of Rakuten execs, costar Elisa Donovan (a.k.a. frenemy Amber) and a roomful of extras (including Christian Siriano, who reimagined Cher's looks for the spot), "I was going, 'This is terrible. It's not moving astatine all,' due to the fact that that's what was happening successful my mind," Silverstone detailed. "But, then, erstwhile I saw it, I went, 'Oh. It's adorable.'"
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She was a total Betty, if you will.
As a bonus for fans, the full acquisition was truthful large that it made her privation to measurement backmost into Cher's iconic Mary Janes much than conscionable sporadically. "Wouldn't that beryllium truthful fun?" she said erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of a Clueless sequel. "After doing this, I truly felt like, 'Oh no, I don't get to support going? Like it's conscionable done? These 2 days?' So either Rakuten and I are going to person to marque galore much commercials oregon thing is going to person to happen."
If thing else, it would springiness her the accidental to snag much of Cher's styles. Because arsenic overmuch arsenic we'd similar to ideate each past portion of the manner icon's clothing hanging successful her meticulously organized, state-of-the-art revolving closet, Silverstone admits she's actually, um, wholly clueless astir wherever immoderate of it is.
When tapped to play Cher backmost successful the 1990s, Silverstone would champion picture herself arsenic "ensemble-y challenged." She had her go-to audition azygous of jeans and a greenish t-shirt and past "my fellow astatine the time's grungy plaid garment that I deterioration successful the Aerosmith videos."
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So erstwhile filming wrapped, the then-18-year-old "took a batch of the apparel from the movie thinking that I would deterioration them," she explained. "But erstwhile I left, I realized, 'Oh, good this isn't me, that was Cher.' So I couldn't fig retired however to deterioration them successful existent beingness and I gave them each away, sadly. No 1 has immoderate thought wherever they've each gone."
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She's done a acold amended occupation of keeping way of her costars much than 3 decades aft they came unneurotic for a fun shoot successful the wintertime of 1994.
Text messaging wasn't truthful overmuch of a happening then, and adjacent these days, "I'm not connected a radical chat with everyone," Silverstone noted, "but if determination is one, I privation in." Even without, she's doing rather a spot of rollin' with the homies.
Teaming up with Donovan "was truly nice," Silverstone shared. "We were some looking astatine each different like, 'What are we doing? Are we truly here? What's happening close now?'" She besides hung out with Stacey Dash (i.e. the Dionne to her Cher) last November and keeps successful interaction with some onscreen dada Dan Hedaya and teacher Wallace Shawn.
And past there was the nighttime successful Chicago a fewer years backmost with Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison and Paul Rudd. "So overmuch fun," Silverstone recalled. "We each went dancing and we had a great, large time."
Speaking of Rudd, no, she doesn't get an overwhelming consciousness of ickiness from the dating-her-kinda-sorta-step-brother crippled point: "It wasn't similar she was raised with him for God's sake. Her dada astir apt had truthful galore antithetic wives."
Though, to beryllium fair, "I've fixed it zero thought," she allowed. "This close present is the astir thought I've enactment into that."
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So with everyone making it a constituent to cheque successful connected each other, arsenic Silverstone shared, it doesn't feel butt-crazy to imagine there mightiness beryllium aboriginal formed reunions.
"I don't know—stay tuned!" she teased. However, she noted we'll perfectly spot much of Cher acknowledgment to her Rakuten collaboration, which includes a fewer "cute small memes" they created for societal media. And if fans person ideas for scenes she tin recreate alongside her lad Bear (with ex-husband Christopher Jarecki), she's game.
"He's ace cute doing them," she raved, noting that having the 11-year-old formal up arsenic "the scariest benignant of lawyer"—Cher's dada Mel Horowitz—"killed me. He was truthful adorable with the large glasses and the jacket."
As for slipping into Cher's astir susceptible outfits for societal media, Silverstone inactive finds the process adjacent parts terrifying and exhilarating ("When I bash those TikToks, portion of maine is cringing and the different portion of maine is going, 'This is truthful fun!'"), but she loves the well-meaning virgin who can't thrust each spot arsenic overmuch arsenic we do.
"She has a bosom of golden and she truly does crook astir by the extremity and evolve," says The Kind Diet author. While she has a hard clip imagining precisely what Cher would beryllium doing with her beingness now, she believes that erstwhile the skipper of the Pismo Beach catastrophe alleviation chooses clothes, "she's super, ace conscious and making sustainable choices. So she tin instrumentality her joyousness and emotion of shopping, but beryllium conscious and thoughtful astir it. I truly emotion that idea."
Because arsenic a omniscient pistillate erstwhile said, "'Tis a far, acold amended happening doing worldly for different people."
