{"id":2181924,"date":"2025-11-30T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2181924"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:56:07","slug":"hilary-duff-says-jennifer-coolidge-was-mean-to-her-on-cinderella-story-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hilary-duff-says-jennifer-coolidge-was-mean-to-her-on-cinderella-story-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff says Jennifer Coolidge was \u2018mean\u2019 to her on &#8216;Cinderella Story\u2019 set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2F116450497.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jennifer Coolidge always commits to the bit. <\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BOjNMrpd99U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>, Hilary Duff recalled that the \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d actress, 64, was \u201cmean\u201d to her on the set of \u201cA Cinderella Story,\u201d in which Coolidge played Duff\u2019s evil stepmother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been so much fun to watch her career because she just goes there in such a big way that it was really impressive and slightly intimidating as like a teenager,\u201d said Duff, 38. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jennifer Coolidge and Hilary Duff in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jennifer Coolidge and Hilary Duff in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe was, like, mean to me, so it was a little scary \u2019cause I was only 15 and she was just, you know, mean to me cause she\u2019s my evil stepmother,\u201d the \u201cCome Clean\u201d singer continued.\u00a0\u201cAt the time, I think\u00a0I had to be like, \u2018You\u2019re filming a movie. You\u2019re filming a movie.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cA Cinderella Story\u201d stars Duff as Sam Montgomery, a San Fernando Valley high school student who is being raised by her cruel stepmom Fiona (Coolidge) after her parents\u2019 deaths. <\/p>\n<p>The cast also includes Chad Michael Murray as Austin, Regina King as Rhonda, Madeline Zima as Brianna, Andrea Avery as Gabriella and Dan Byrd as Carter.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jennifer Coolidge and Regina King in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Duff previously spoke about her relationship with Coolidge during a 2023 appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BravoWWHL\/status\/1618829145542107136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even begin to tell you how much I\u2019ve just been, like, obsessed with this past year for Jennifer Coolidge. It\u2019s been really cool to see,\u201d\u00a0Duff said, referring to Coolidge\u2019s \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d success.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hilary Duff in an Instagram photo. <span class=\"credit\">Hilary Duff\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jennifer Coolidge in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite moment was her rubbing salmon on her face while filming\u00a0A Cinderella Story\u00a0and talking about the omegas,\u201d Duff shared. \u201cMy son\u00a0actually started eating sushi when he was like 3 and had a similar moment, and I looked and I was like, \u2018You\u2019re just rubbing raw salmon on your face.\u2019 And it\u2019s, like, soft and he liked it, then it reminded me of her. She\u2019s just everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/29\/entertainment\/frankie-muniz-why-he-revealed-hilary-duff-drama-22-years-later\/\"> \u201cAgent Cody Banks\u201d actress<\/a> also called Coolidge \u201ca lovely human being\u201d who was finally having her \u201cmoment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it just reminds me that being in this industry, I feel so lucky that anything can happen at any stage,\u201d Duff added. \u201cIt\u2019s so dope.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jennifer Coolidge and Hilary Duff in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In August, Murray, 44, gushed over Duff in an interview with<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKBLlVnTl58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> People.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilary\u2019s awesome. If you\u2019ve ever met Hilary or if you\u2019ve ever seen her even walking down the street, she glows,\u201d the \u201cOne Tree Hill\u201d alum said. \u201cShe as an an aura that she can walk into a room and you just go right to her. She just has this magnetic presence, and she can light up a room.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Chad Michael Murray and Hilary Duff in \u201cA Cinderella Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why she\u2019s been so successful for so many years,\u201d Murray continued. \u201cShe was awesome and I just remember her and her team and everybody, like, her teacher, they were so cool, so nice. Everybody was the best. Her mom, the whole team, everybody I got along with over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Coolidge always commits to the bit. In a new interview with Variety, Hilary Duff recalled that the \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d actress, 64, was \u201cmean\u201d to her on the set of \u201cA Cinderella Story,\u201d in which Coolidge played Duff\u2019s evil stepmother. \u201cIt\u2019s been so much fun to watch her career because she just goes there in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[364346,21741,21993,22320,348505,21912],"class_list":["post-2181924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-classic-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hilary-duff","tag-jennifer-coolidge","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Hilary-Duff-says-Jennifer-Coolidge-was-\u2018mean-to-her-on.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181926,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181924\/revisions\/2181926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}