Jennifer Coolidge, who appeared opposite Fred Willard in the revered mockumentary films Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, remembers the late actor as a “comic genius” with a rare gift for improvisation and extreme commitment to his craft. “He had such an innate sense of what funny was, and he was so in tune he could just blindside you,” Coolidge tells Rolling Stone in a statement of Willard, who died Friday of natural causes at age 86.
“When we were filming Best In Show and actors were responsible for improvising their characters dialogue,...
“When we were filming Best In Show and actors were responsible for improvising their characters dialogue,...
- 5/19/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
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