Minecraft movie star Jennifer Coolidge says her on-screen romance with Nitwit the Villager was "like fire"

Jennifer Coolidge in A Minecraft Movie
(Image credit: Warner Brothers)

Jennifer Coolidge says she was a little bit skeptical about making out with a Minecraft villager before she got to set - then the passion started.

"Sometimes you show up to a movie and you read the script and they haven't cast your lover yet and then you show up and you're like 'I don't know if I really want to make out with him'," Coolidge told BBC Radio 1. "But when I saw what Nitwit looked like and what Bret McKenzie looked like and the combination of the two. I mean, it was just like fire."

A Minecraft Movie follows four regular world humans (Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, and Emma Myers) who are pulled into a strange cubic world where their only chance of survival falls depends on in-game character Steve (Jack Black). Jennifer Coolidge stars as Vice Principal Marlene, who accidentally hits Nitwit with her car after he ventures out into the real world. The two have a steamy romance, and it's only one of many wildly silly things to occur throughout the movie.

"It was a lot because Bret is - this is not very nice to say - more attractive than Nitwit," Coolidge previously told Digital Spy. "Bret McKenzie's a genius, it's hard to do a performance through a cardboard box and still have you laughing, but he was able to do it."

A Minecraft Movie is out now. For more on the movie, check out our A Minecraft Movie review, or read our guides on A Minecraft Movie ending explained.

Lauren Milici
Senior Writer, Tv & Film

Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent's Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.

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