Months after Jennifer Coolidge’s Tonya McQuoid was axed from White Louts in a manner typically reserved for the likes of Bugs Bunny and Tom from Tom and Jerry, it seems the star has already nabbed her next iconic role — a camp-as-hell supervillain straight out of a ‘90s Japanese superhero flick.


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On Wednesday, March 1, Coolidge took a break from her busy schedule of photoshopping her dogs into her award show photos and evading murderous gays — some of the many general duties that come along with being a certified national treasure — to appear on the cover of W Magazine’s Directors Issue Volume 2 in an extra as hell homage to the Tokusatsu genre.




Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — a.k.a. The Daniels behind the wiener-fingered masterpiece that is Everything Everywhere All at Once, Coolidge’s photos are best described as every gay ‘90s kids’ wet dream. You’ve got swords, axes, laser sticks and even bigger swords. You’ve got a pink power ranger hitting a jump split that could put the Disney Channel Movie kid to shame. You’ve even got Coolidge, fighting a man-lobster monster and yeeting a cell phone tower at a dead robot (same), a series of factors that led Coolidge to dub the shoot the "one of the best things I have ever been involved in.”



"But I swear to god, I felt like I was getting together with little kids. They were like these sort of child prodigies who are super, super smart and just super creative,” Coolidge explained in the accompanying interview.

"I've never been asked to do a shoot like this: I have weapons, take down small cities, pick up cars and throw them,” she continued, singlehandedly disappointing everyone who may have believed the actress was secretly moonlighting as Godzilla. “I don't know if I will ever be this surprised again.”



But beyond awakening her creativity, it seems the actress’ shoot may have awoken something else.


“What is it about lobster claws that I’m so attracted to?” Coolidge mused during the shoot. Mmmm…. Makes me want a lobster roll *real* bad.