Lisa Kudrow Addresses Rumors of a Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel

As it turned out, Romy and Michele’s high school reunion it almost didn’t happen.

During the January 7 episode The Drew Barrymore Showstar Lisa Kudrow, 61, revealed the origins of the beloved goofy characters when host (and fan) Drew Barrymore gushed about the 1997 cult classic.

Kudrow played the titular Michele in the film, opposite Romy Mire Sorvino. In their conversation, Barrymore, 49, asked Kudrow how the film came about.

“One of my favorite movies, I think about it a lot more than the movie,” Barrymore said during the segment. “It’s a world and I live in it every day and I certainly quote it every day of my life.”

“What?” Kudrow asked.

“Romy and Michele!” exclaimed Barrymore enthusiastically. “Is it true and I may be wrong about this, but, all right, you’ll be the person who knows. Wasn’t that a movie at first?”

Kudrow went on to explain that the characters of Romy and Michele originally came from “a drama about giving up capital in LA” written by Robin Schiff, who would later write the film.

“So they had to audition backers for the play to see if they could even mount the play,” Kudrow recalled. “And they went to everything [acting] teachers, ‘Who do you recommend for the audition?’, so you know, I went.”

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She continued, “It was my first audition ever, for ‘Airhead No. 2’, Michele. We were those side characters. We were on stage for a total of seven minutes, in and out, for the whole show.”

After Barrymore asked if the script was next, Kudrow surprised her by revealing that Schiff “wrote the pilot.”

“Is it going to be a TV show?” Barrymore asked.

“It was a pilot,” Kudrow said. “We were in the pilot, that actress Christie Mellor and I, Romy and Michele. And he was a pilot and he wasn’t very good.”

Barrymore then shared the story of how she started working on the project over the summer with At Romy and Michele’s another big star, Sorvino, who was also questioned about another project that diehard fans want to know about: Romy and Michele continuation.

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino at the 2022 SAG Awards Rich Fury/Getty

“I kept asking her, ‘So what’s going on with Romy and Michele and the second film and the sequel?’ ” Barrymore shared with Kudrow. “We’ve talked about it here on the news, every little thing or morsel we get. Let’s scream from the rooftops. There is nothing I can imagine wanting more. how’s it going?”

“She said it perfectly: We’re as close as we’ve ever been,” Kudrow said, referring to Sorvino’s recent chatter about the long-awaited sequel. “There’s a script that’s really good, [by] Robin Schiff.”

“Oh my God, I got goosebumps, I really did,” Barrymore said.

“So it’s going to happen, I mean, we’ll see,” Kudrow teased.

During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in November 2024, Sorvino, 57, also talked about the upcoming Romy and Michele sequel, teasing that the project is “so close to being greenlit” and revealing that a director has even been hired.

Lisa Kudrow tells Drew Barrymore about the origins of ‘Romy and Michele’.

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“They did his deal, they did Lisa [Kudrow] and my contracts as executive producers,” Sorvino told PEOPLE. “Robin has written multiple drafts of an incredibly funny script, that ticks all the boxes for all the fans.”

“And they’re just going back and forth, tweaking things here and there, and [there are] rumored to shoot in the second quarter of next year,” she added, confirming that she and Kudrow will also reprise their roles.

“But,” Sorvino continued, “it’s not an official green light, so I can’t say it’s an official green light.”

Directed by David Mirkin, Romy and Michele’s high school reunion follows two friends (Sorvino as Romy White and Kudrow as Michele Weinberger) who return to their high school in Tucson, Arizona for their 10-year reunion, hoping to impress their former bullies by posing as high achievers and making up lies that eventually float out of control.

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