Parker Posey is reminiscing on 25 years since her function within the 2000 movie Greatest in Present, an off-the-wall spoof on canine reveals by filmmaker Christopher Visitor.
In an look on the Today Show on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, Posey mentioned one in every of her recollections of constructing the movie got here courtesy of a canine co-star: the poodle who starred alongside Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Lynch.
“I keep in mind the poodle that Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Lynch had was fired,” Posey, 56, mentioned on At present. “Yeah, she was behaving badly.”
Posey continued, “And someplace I’ve some tape, as a result of I filmed the poodle auditions on the Sutton Place resort in Toronto, that stands out.”
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Within the movie, Lynch performed the poodle’s coach, whereas Coolidge performed the poodle’s proprietor, a spacey lady married to a rich man who in the end falls for Lynch’s character as an alternative.
Posey, in the meantime, performed the function of a younger city skilled who, alongside together with her equally neurotic husband, owns a Weimaraner.
Talking on At present, Posey added that a lot of her recollections from filming Greatest in Present revolve round “simply laughing at everybody else as they’re working,” noting that the mockumentary fashion of Visitor’s movies meant that lots of the most iconic strains have been improvised by the actors themselves.
“We’d huddle and watch the screens,” she continued. “, it’s improvised, so what you’re bringing occurs stay. And it takes like, just some minutes to shoot. So it was an entire pleasure to be part of these films.”
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Posey’s look on At present got here as she promoted her function on the third season of The White Lotus, the HBO anthology sequence created by Mike White. Posey performs Victoria Ratliff, who’s on trip together with her husband, Timothy, and their three children, on the present.
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Coolidge additionally appeared on The White Lotus, although on seasons 1 and a pair of, as Tanya McQuoid.
