Mira Sorvino has some updates on the highly anticipated sequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.
“The plan is right now to shoot it late spring,” the actress, 57, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, September 26, while discussing her upcoming appearance on the game show Name That Tune. “The script is great. Robin Schiff, the original writer, wrote the sequel, and Lisa [Kudrow] and I have had a lot of input in it.”
Sorvino added that not only are she and Kudrow, 62, reprising their roles, but they are also serving as executive producers.
“It’s not like us just visiting and other people being [in] it,” she continued. “Romy and Michele again, and we’re seeing what they’re up to nowadays, and the whole gang is back.”
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In the 1997 cult classic, Sorvino starred as Romy, a former popular girl who works as a cashier after high school, while Kudrow played an unpopular classmate named Michele who is also down on her luck post-grad. After high school, the women end up being roommates. As their 10-year reunion approaches, they devise a plan to make their lives appear better than they actually are.
“In the original, they have this hurdle where they re-examine their lives all of a sudden, based on some external benchmark, and that starts happening to them in this too,” Sorvino teased. “But it’s sort of all, what would they be thinking about now at this point in their life.”
While Sorvino can’t share a lot about the sequel’s premise, she teased that the story is “really funny” and “moving”
“I think part of Romy and Michele is that it has, like, a lot of emotion underneath it, and that’s why people have always related to it,” she told Us. “It’s about being yourself and loving your best friends, no matter what other people think of you, and just being your authentic self, even though they’re idiots.”
Sorvino explained that while Romy and Michele had fun elements with its music, fashion and dancing, the “enduring” storyline helped it “become such a cult favorite.” She teased that fans can “of course” expect a big dance number just like the original had.
While fans have to wait a little longer for the Romy and Michele sequel, Sorvino will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago and appear in an upcoming episode of Name That Tune. On the game show, Sorvino will face off against friend Aisha Tyler as the Oscar winner is playing for the charity End Human Trafficking.
“It was really fun. It was a treat,” she recalled. “It was great to work with [host] Jane [Krakowski] and we actually shot it in Ireland, which was amazing. My husband and I got to take a little driving trip to the Cliffs of Moher.”
Sorvino shared that she grew up watching Name That Tune so getting the chance to compete for a good cause was a dream come true. Her episode airs on Monday, September 29, on Fox at 8 p.m. ET.
