When first approached to play a role tailor-made for her by The White Lotus creator Mike White, Jennifer Coolidge was in a dark place, self-soothing by eating pizza while riding out the pandemic holed up in her New Orleans home that she once described as “gloomy and cavernous”. Even a filming location at the Four Seasons Maui wasn’t enough to drown out her self-doubt.
“I tried to get out of it. I truly did,” she said in an interview with. “I was nervous about vain things, like not looking right and not being able to deliver somehow. I just didn’t want to fail … But it’s a great life lesson: when you want to try to get out of something, maybe it’s