
Among millennials, Varsity Blues has a lasting footprint as an icon of the 1990s. It wasn’t exactly a box office smash when it arrived in theaters, and it’s not exactly a great film, but anyone growing up that era can’t read the words “I don’t want your life!” without mentally hearing James Van Der Beek’s Texas twang. Of course, also part of the movie’s legacy is Ali Larter’s famed whipped cream bikini, and Larter recently looked back on that scene with a quarter-century's worth of perspective.