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Time to relax? As if!
While filming the iconic 1995 rom-com “Clueless,” Elisa Donovan and her fellow Bettys, Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy and Stacey Dash, were in total work mode.
“It’s interesting,” Donovan, 54, exclusively told The Post during iHeart Radio’s Jingle Ball on Dec. 5. “If you ask the boys, you’ll get a different answer than if you ask the girls. My answer is, we were all worried about the way we look. We were trying to get things right. Alicia is in every single scene.”
“Maybe twice, she and I were hanging out in her trailer, we were talking, and every other time she was never seen,” continued the actress. “I was reading James Baldwin in my trailer. ‘Giovanni’s Room’ to be specific. That is what I was doing in my trailer in my free time.”
But the men of the movie, including Paul Rudd, Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison, Justin Walker and Jeremy Sisto, were totally not buggin’.
“The boys are shooting hoops, playing basketball,” she recalled. “They were having a great time!”
The cult classic film, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary, follows popular high schooler Cher (Silverstone) and her friends at their LA high school.
“It has all the elements of what matters,” she gushed. “That period of life where everything is changing, relationships and dynamics, all of those things as a movie and it’s super fun.”
Donovan went on to star in the television series “Clueless” for three seasons from 1996 to 1999. Dash, 58, also reprised her role but Cher was played by Rachel Blanchard.
And decades later, the ladies of the ’90s are still shining bright.
In fact, Donovan connected Silverstone, 49, with her “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” co-star, Melissa Joan Hart, to collaborate on the new Netflix rom-com, “A Merry Little Ex-Mas.”
“Melissa texted me to say, ‘I have this movie and I think it would be great for Alicia. Can you connect me to her?’ And I said sure,” recalled the podcaster. “And I texted Alicia and she said sure!”
“It’s super cute,” Donovan added about the Christmas film, which also stars Oliver Hudson, Pierson Fode and Jameela Jamil.
The movie follows a small-town mom (Silverstone) and her soon-to-be ex husband (Hudson), who both find other love interests for the holidays.
“When I read the script, it made me cry, which is always a good sign!” Silverstone previously told The Post.
Next up, Donovan, could see herself, Hart, 49, and Silverstone going full throttle.
“That would be great,” she said of working alongside the two actresses. “Maybe a version of ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ but an updated one which incorporates 9 to 5 but ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ “
She quipped: “One of them would have to die their hair. Melissa has been a brunette before!”
In the meantime, the “A Night at the Roxbury” star is booked and busy with her latest venture.
“I am doing a podcast for iHeart Radio under T.J. [Holmes] and Amy’s [Robach] umbrella called ‘Killer Thriller,'” Donovan revealed. “I will essentially be covering all of the true crime series and movies that everyone is obsessed with, but through a new lens of talking to the actors who portray these people. The lens of adding humanity to it.”
The podcast will dive deep into the mindset of performers taking on these harrowing tragedies.
“You have to find the human points in anyone that you’re playing,” Donovan noted. “[It holds a] different type of responsibility. I feel like it’s an interesting challenge.”
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