It’s been 25 years since the release of Coyote Ugly, and star Piper Perabo teased that a sequel isn’t fully out of the question.
Perabo, 48, hinted at a potential next installment of the film while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter at San Diego Comic-Con on Sunday, July 27.
After joking that the sequel should be called Coyote-er Ugly, she revealed, “There has been some discussion about that. Some things are being discussed.”
Perabo continued, “I can’t really say, but people that were doing it are talking about some stuff.”
When asked if conversations were “back on” regarding a second film, Perabo replied, “Among the necessary — and some people that were like, ‘Well, we don’t necessarily need,’ they’re like, ‘Oh, well I wanna be in it.’ So, there’s a lot of cooks in the kitchen right now, but things are moving around.”
Perabo also played coy when asked if there was already a script for Coyote Ugly 2.
“I can’t say anything about that, but I will say that people that were integral to making it are in communication about how to do something more,” she explained.
Coyote Ugly was released in 2000 and starred Perabo as aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford. She gets a job at Coyote Ugly, a saloon where bartenders dance on the bar, in an attempt to earn money to kickstart her songwriting career. Along the way, Violet meets love interest Kevin O’Donnell (Adam Garcia), who helps her overcome stage fright.
Violet’s father, Bill Sanford (John Goodman), takes issue with her working at Coyote Ugly and she later gets fired. After her dad is involved in a car accident, he encourages his daughter to continue pursuing her dream of songwriting despite initially being hesitant. Violet later performs at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City and ultimately earns a record deal.
Coyote Ugly has withstood the test of time, especially LeAnn Rimes’ hit “Can’t Fight the Moonlight,” which was performed by the singer in the film.
“It’s kind of crazy to step back and think, like, I was 17 dancing on a bar,” Rimes, 42, said of the experience in an October 2020 interview with Daily Pop.
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“Seventeen, you’re still awkward,” she continued. “Well, most of us are. I was. I mean, I remember them giving me chicken cutlets, like, to put in your bra, because they wanted your boobs, like, up to here. … That was my first, you know, real intro to, like, ‘Hi, you’re going to be sexualized from here on out.’”
Prior to Coyote Ugly, Rimes explained that most people knew her as “the little girl with the big voice.”
“Everybody was like, ‘You have to be so sweet and innocent,’” she reflected. “And there goes my sweet and innocent with the Coyote Ugly bar. It was appropriate.”
