Mira Sorvino feels like a "rock star" amid the continued success of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.

The 58-year-old actress is "amazed" by how many people still adore the 1997 comedy film - which sees two best friends, Romy White (Mira) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow), lie about having successful lives to impress their classmates at a 10-year high school reunion.

Appearing on a bonus episode of Sophia Bush's Work in Progress podcast, Mira described the movie as "evergreen" and then recalled: "[Screenwriter and producer] Robin Schiff and I did a screening of it a couple of years ago.

"It was in a theatre, and we walked on the stage, and we got like a five-minute standing ovation, Robin, the writer, and myself. And I was like, 'This is what it feels like to be a rock star' - like what is happening? Like, I am not Eddie Vedder.

"I'm continuously amazed at how much this movie has meant to people in their lives."

Mira then remembered being shocked after meeting one supporter at a fan convention.

She shared: "I was in a comic con, and somebody had me sign their arm as Romy, and then they came back half an hour later with it bleeding. They had it tattooed. I was like, 'Oh my gosh.'

The star said it is "pretty crazy" that "a lot of people have Romy and Michelle tattoos".

An iconic moment from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is when the inseparable pals, as well as Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming), performed a quirky dance to Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper.

And Mira said that "a lot of people do the dance at their wedding".

She added: "They have a third party, you know, the Alan Cumming or the Romy or the Michelle, and they all do the dance."

In 2024, Mira confirmed a sequel to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.

And she hopes the return of her alter ego will see Michele and her pal be just as "dumb and lovable" as they were in the original film.

Asked what the star wants from the sequel, Mira told US Weekly that year: "I just still want [Romy and Michele] to be as relatable, but also as dumb and lovable as they ever were.

"Like, I don't think they've learned that much in the time in between, but they still have that unstoppable spirit and that friendship and that idiocy that makes everybody kind of love them.

"And so, that essential nature of them and the heart that's at the centre of that, that heart has to stay there."