Jennifer Coolidge Talks About Her "Seinfeld" Role As Jerry's Masseuse Girlfriend

What is your favorite 'Seinfeld' episode? I have to go with the Merv Griffin episode where Kramer finds the set from the old TV show and builds a talk show in his apartment. My all-time favourite moment from the show is when animal expert Jim Fowler asks where the cameras are.

Jennifer Coolidge recently did an interview with GQ where she talked about her role on 'Seinfeld' in episode 9 of season 5, where she played Jerry's girlfriend, who is a massage therapist who seems to ignore his pleas for a massage. She also hates George Costanza. Co-stan-za!

"It was a weird day. I booked 'Seinfeld' the same day that I booked this very short-lived series called 'She TV', which was an all-women sketch show on ABC. I didn't really have any jobs before that. I only had lies on my resume. I'd gone to a school called American Academy of Dramatic Arts up in Pasadena, and I'd just named all these shows and all these different theaters at the school as if they played there. You have to do that if you have a blank resume, until you start getting jobs. Then you can slowly erase the lies. I'd love to get my hands on that resume now."

Coolidge continued, "I didn't think I was very good at the table read, but after we finished, Julia Louis-Dreyfus came up to me and said, "You were amazing!" I knew I sucked, but she was still really cool about it."

Coolidge finished about how her life changed after it aired. "After my episode aired, all these people, all these casting directors that would never let me through the doorwell, it kind of changed a lot for me. 'Seinfeld' and 'American Pie' really opened the doors. Years later, I was up for a pilot, and it was between me and another girl, and I think they were leaning toward the other girl. But then the producer told me a rerun of my 'Seinfeld' episode had aired that night, and everyone had seen it, and it had gotten me the job. Thank you, Jerry!"

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