“I was like, ‘Am I gonna pull this off?'”

Coolidge said on Thursday night’s episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live.

“And then we sort of just figured out.

Jennifer Coolidge attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

Jennifer Coolidge.Credit:Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage

Don’t ask for it then you’ll look like an amateur and theyll know.'”

Naturally, she leaned into the part.

“And I was like, ‘Am I gonna pull this off?’

Jennifer Coolidge on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Jennifer Coolidge on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’.Jimmy Kimmel Live/Youtube

Because you have to realize, I was 12!

And that’s a long way to go!”

Somehow, it worked and it also may have opened up a new career path for her.

“And I was so thrilled.”

Earlier in their interview, Coolidge told hostJimmy Kimmelthat she began drinking at a young age.

“Growing up in Massachusetts, you didn’t really have a choice,” she quipped.

“It’s the thing.”

“I was always so cold out in the snow drinking with my friends,” she confessed.

“I was just freezing.

I was always like, ‘Oh my God!'”

Watch Coolidge dish on her great beer caper in the clip above.