More than 20 years after A Cinderella Story made its theatrical debut, Hilary Duff reveals she was scared by an “intimidating” co-star.

While speaking to Variety, Hilary Duff spoke about working with Jennifer Coolidge, who played her “evil stepmother,” Fiona, in the early 2000s teen rom-com.

“It’s been so fun to watch her career because she just goes there in such a big way that it was really impressive and slightly intimidating as like a teenager,” Duff said about Coolidge. “She was, like, mean to me, so it was a little scary ’cause I was only 15 and she was just, you know, mean to me ’cause she’s my evil stepmother.”

She then said, “At the time, I think I had to be like, ‘You’re filming a movie. You’re filming a movie.'”

A Cinderella Story follows Hilary Duff as Samantha Montgomery,

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