Jennifer Coolidge is going into depth about why she almost turned down her award-winning role in The White Lotus.
06.06.2023 - 17:32 / justjared.com
Jennifer Coolidge has some ideas about her future on The White Lotus.
The 61-year-old award-winning actress got candid about the hit HBO series during a conversation with The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, where she opened up about not only Tanya, but what she thinks season three might look like.
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Jennifer revealed that for season three, she’s hoping that there’s a story about taking out Jon Gries‘ Greg, who was Tanya’s husband.
“My hope for Jon is that he’s not finished with Greg,” she shared. “I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don’t know, end up in a meat-grinding machine.”
If you don’t know, Greg attempted to organize Tanya’s death. She ultimately died after falling overboard a yacht after going on a shooting spree with her assassins.
“Mike [White, showrunner] was looking for a big Italian opera ending, and it was big and dramatic, so he wanted me to die for many reasons,” Jennifer says. “But I also think Tanya’s a lot. Maybe people would get sick of her on another season. Maybe people would be like, ‘Oh, my God. Get rid of Tanya!’”
However, should Tanya come back for season three, Jennifer has a brilliant idea of how it could be done – by reincarnation.
“If Tanya could come back in any form, maybe she could come back as a seagull and poke Greg’s eyes out,” she joked.
So far, here’s all we actually know about season 3 of The White Lotus…
Jennifer Coolidge is going into depth about why she almost turned down her award-winning role in The White Lotus.
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Jennifer Coolidge almost missed out on playing Tanya McQuoid. During The Hollywood Reporter‘s drama actress roundtable, the 61-year-old actress reveals how her now-iconic role on “The White Lotus” nearly slipped through her grasp.
Jennifer Coolidge almost missed out on playing Tanya McQuoid. During 's drama actress roundtable, the 61-year-old actress reveals how her now-iconic role on nearly slipped through her grasp.«Mike and I were going to do another show, which had been turned down by a lot of people, and he mentioned he was going to write [his next] show about rich people on vacation, but I never heard anything more about it,» Coolidge tells Claire Danes, Emma D'Arcy, Dominique Fishback, Jennifer Garner and Melanie Lynskey of Mike White, the show's creator.Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, Coolidge explains.«We were like six months into COVID, and I'd been locked up in my house in New Orleans just pigging out on these vegan pizzas.
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The White Lotus season three has been greenlit by HBO and we have all the info you need to know about the cast as of right now.
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Jennifer Lawrence sat down for a new interview where she spoke out about a variety of topics.
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On their latest shows, Brett Goldstein and Theo James have created characters who unpeel deeper truths beyond their hunky appearances. Goldstein, who’s won two Emmys for portraying soccer player and coach Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso,” returned for the Apple TV+ comedy’s third season. (He’s also a co-creator and writer on “Shrinking,” about a therapist played by Jason Segel.) James joined the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” set in Italy and from creator Mike White, as a chiseled, privileged vacationer. THEO JAMES: How did you end up writing for “Ted Lasso”? BRETT GOLDSTEIN: I’d done a pilot for Bill Lawrence. The pilot didn’t get picked up, but we stayed in touch, and he knew I was a writer as well as an actor. When people ask me for advice, I’m always like, there’s no magic phone call. It doesn’t happen. But I did get a magic phone call here, from Bill, out of the blue, saying, “I think you’d be good for this football show.”
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The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge could “absolutely” get her own spin-off series, according to the show’s creator.Coolidge starred as Tanya McQuoid in the two seasons of the hit HBO show, the only character to carry over between both season one and two.Tanya met her death at the end of season two, but creator Mike White has said that there is the possibility of a prequel series focusing on the character.“I absolutely think that’s possible,” White told press at the Vivid Sydney Festival this weekend (June 10), as reported by Deadline.“We were just talking about that. It’s a funny idea,” he added, discussing the potential joy of “making Jennifer 20 years younger” to become a younger version of Tanya.“That would be fun too,” White added.
Jennifer Coolidge is sharing new details about her life.
said at a recent press conference during Sydney’s Vivid Festival. “We kind of have to come to Australia if we keep going.”“It would be so fun,” he continued.
Next stop for HBO’s “The White Lotus” series could be Australia, creator Mike White said
Jennifer Coolidge is revealing her past roommate. In an interview with British GQ, the 61-year-old actress shares that she platonically lived with Eddie Kaye Thomas, her “American Pie” love interest, for a year or two in the early aughts.
Jennifer Coolidge is revealing her past roommate. In an interview with , the 61-year-old actress shares that she platonically lived with Eddie Kaye Thomas, her love interest, for a year or two in the early aughts.«I wasn't the love of his life,» Coolidge explains with a laugh. «He had girlfriends.
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Jennifer Coolidge has said that she almost turned down TV show The White Lotus as she was feeling depressed. For her role as Tanya McQuoid in the HBO series, Coolidge, 61, won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a limited series, anthology series or television motion picture. Talking to British GQ about how she felt when she was told about plans for The White Lotus, Coolidge said: “I was, like, not in the mood.
wearing flip-flops on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Jennifer Lawrence is setting the record straight about the fashion statement that had the internet abuzz.«Ok, thank you for bringing this up. I would really like to straighten this out,» Lawrence told ET's Nischelle Turner while promoting her new film, alongside co-star, Andrew Barth Feldman.