Cast
Brittany Murphy in 2006After the death of Brittany Murphy, Silverstone stated that she "always felt connected to [Murphy] as [they] shared a very special experience in [their] lives together",[47] and said, "I loved working with Brittany. She was so talented, so warm, and so sweet."[47]
Heckerling later described Silverstone as having "that Marilyn Monroe thing" as a "pretty, sweet blonde who, in spite of being the American ideal, people still really like."[25]
The surviving cast reunited in October 2012 for an issue of Entertainment Weekly.[48][49]
Heckerling later reunited with both Silverstone and Wallace Shawn for the 2012 vampire comedy film Vamps.[25]
Popular culture and society
The film was well known for the characters' catchphrases and vocabulary. Cher's verbal style is also marked by ironic contrasts between current slang and historical references, such as when she compares Tai to "those Botticelli chicks".[50]
The film also had a strong influence on fashion trends.[51][52] Fashion as a form of self-expression played an important role in the narrative and character development of the film, television series, and novels, which are topics examined by academic Alice Leppert.[53]
Donatella Versace's fall 2018 collection was influenced by Clueless.[54]
Clueless was the main inspiration for Australian rapper Iggy Azalea's music video for her 2014 song "Fancy" featuring Charli XCX. Many visuals and costumes inspired by the film were used in the video,[55] which is filled with remakes of Clueless scenes. The outfits are also reinvented to channel the famous stylings of the film with a slightly modern edge.[56] "Fancy" was shot in the same Los Angeles high school where Clueless was filmed.[57] A June 2018 episode of Lip Sync Battle featured Silverstone miming to "Fancy", wearing Cher's yellow plaid skirt suit.[58]
A reference to Cher's seduction of Christian is included in the music video for Simone Battle's "He Likes Boys" (2011).[59][60]
In the second episode of the second season of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve, "Nice and Neat" (2019), the Russian assassin Villanelle calls her agency and uses the codename Cher Horowitz to secretly inform her boss she is in trouble and needs to be rescued after being kidnapped.[61]
A 2020 Discover Card commercial featured a clip from the film consisting of Cher Horowitz saying her famous phrase "Uh uh, no way".[62]
In 2023, Silverstone once again reprised the role of Cher Horowitz in a commercial for Rakuten which debuted during Super Bowl LVII.[63]
