Greater than 27 years have handed since Elisa Donovan first performed Amber, Cher’s nemesis in Clueless. Now, she’s bringing the character again… though, you might say that she by no means actually went away. Folks nonetheless usually come as much as Donovan and quote her well-known traces, corresponding to “No matter” and “My plastic surgeon would not need me doing any exercise the place balls fly at my nostril.”
“It is actually enjoyable,” Donovan tells Yahoo Leisure. “I at all times assume, like, ‘It is higher than being remembered for like some horror film the place I obtained slashed to items or one thing.”
Donovan, who performed Amber within the 1995 film and the TV collection, which ran for 3 seasons starting in 1996, slips again into character for a brand new industrial that can debut throughout the Tremendous Bowl. Her co-star is none apart from Alicia Silverstone, who performed Cher within the film, and their advert is for buying app Rakuten.
The complete advert will air throughout the massive sport, however a clip launched Monday exhibits the ladies recreating the well-known debate scene.
“I’ve to say it was, no doubt, surreal,” Donovan says of filming the advert. “I hadn’t seen Alicia in a number of years… The movie opened the L.A. Movie Competition [in 2014], and I believe that is the final time that we had seen each other in individual. And so, I imply, it was weird. I walked on the set, and Invoice Pope was the cinematographer and he was for the movie as properly, and I walked within the classroom, and he is like, ‘Geez, you do not ever appear to vary your wardrobe in any case these years.’ It was so humorous. It was such a pleasure to see him, too, and, I imply, it was weird. They recreated the set to a T! From what was written on the board to our stands that we had been talking in entrance of…And we simply laughed. There have been moments the place I regarded over at Alicia, and I simply felt like, ‘What is occurring? The place are we?'”
Donovan stated she’s requested to do an advert having to do Clueless “on a regular basis,” so she will be able to solely think about how typically it occurs for Silverstone. She stated sure to this one as a result of it is smart to her; the characters had been critical buyers.
“It is kind of this fully very best marriage, and I felt just like the timing was so proper,” Donovan says. “Persons are actually feeling this affinity for the ’90s, and it is coming again on this method.”
The gang-pleaser, which additionally co-stars Paul Rudd, Stacey Sprint, Donald Faison and the late Brittany Murphy, continues to be well-liked with audiences. Donovan has a few theories about why so many individuals join with it.
“One is that it is an extremely properly written script [from writer-director Amy Heckerling]. And it is very absolutely realized, the entire characters have full, actual, wealthy lives,” she says. “And there are some issues about it that basically transcended the style and the time. And that’s, you recognize, you’ve got Black and white characters of equal significance within the movie, of equal socioeconomic wealth and there was no point out of it, it was simply this kind of idyllic world.”
Heckerling will get a lot of the credit score, after all, however everybody concerned impressed.
“All people was working at their finest stage, from wardrobe to set ornament to cinematography to the writing, the directing. The whole lot labored,” Donovan says. “I believe that is actually the lengthy reply.”
Of her former castmates, Donovan is usually in contact with Faison, who performed Murray, the boyfriend of Cher’s finest good friend, Sprint’s Dionne. They nonetheless textual content and, earlier than Donovan moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, would see one another from time to time.
“He is one in every of my favourite individuals,” Donovan says of Faison. “He is such a superb man, and he is so hilarious. And I went to his marriage ceremony, and he is nice. However he is actually the one one which I be in contact with from the forged regularly.”
Surprisingly, the actress has solely seen the film that made such a distinction in her life a couple of instances.
“I used to be late to the premiere as a result of I used to be capturing [Beverly Hills, 90210], in order that they despatched the automotive and I obtained to the premiere, and the film had already began,” Donovan explains. “We did a take a look at screening of it with Alicia, Paul, Justin [Walker], Donald and myself, that was earlier than the movie got here out. After which I noticed it within the theater, after which I simply… there was an occasion that I had hosted at Skybar [in 2017], so I watched it.”
The one factor that makes Donovan cringe when she appears again: that point she tried the knee socks-with-high heels look in actual life.
“I bear in mind a good friend of mine who can also be an actress, [wearing it too], and her husband seeing the 2 of us,” Donovan says earlier than laughing. “And he is like, ‘You two are cartoon characters. You gotta reduce it out. You already know you may’t put on these socks.'”
Scarlett, Donovan’s 10-year-old daughter with husband Charlie Bigelow, hasn’t seen Clueless but, although a few of her pals have. When she was in preschool, the youngsters most popular her as Belinda Bannister within the Canine Who Saved films; their mother and father had been those who cherished the teenager comedy.
Lately, Donovan is engaged on a really completely different challenge, as she’s adapts her 2021 memoir, Wake Me When You Go away, into a movie. She’s directing the story of a time in her life some time again when all the pieces shifted, following her father’s prognosis with terminal most cancers, her breakup with a critical companion and the sudden cancellation of her present. The manufacturing group is in place, and so they’ve already forged a few of the roles.
“Folks appear to have a very sturdy, visceral response to the fabric,” Donovan says. “Making small films is a labor of affection, so we’re simply making an attempt to get the second half of the financing now.”
Donovan will not seem within the film, and she or he’s not but revealing who will play her.
