Whereas followers have been disillusioned that Jennifer Coolidge gained’t be returning for The White Lotus season 3, nobody has been extra upset than the actress herself.
“Individuals are asking me if I’m in it. I can actually say, to this second, nobody has even talked about it to me,” Coolidge, 62, informed Right now on Wednesday, February 7. “I believe I’m useless. I believe I’m useless proper now and could also be useless perpetually.”
Throughout the stunning season 2 finale, which began streaming in October 2022, Coolidge’s character, Tanya, hit her head on the aspect of a ship as she fell into the ocean to her demise.
Whereas creator Mike White had beforehand performed coy about whether or not Tanya would make a return throughout season 3, Coolidge doesn’t assume it’s possible.
Mike White’s anthology sequence The White Lotus has formally been renewed for a 3rd season. “Reflecting on [the show’s] humble, run-and-gun origin as a contained pandemic manufacturing, it’s unimaginable to not be awestruck by how Mike orchestrated one of many buzziest and most critically acclaimed reveals,” Government Vice President of HBO Programming, Francesca Orsi, informed […]
“I’m jealous of everybody that’s going. I simply need to stress I’m not an excellent sport about it, however there’s nothing I can do,” Coolidge stated. “Once they kill you, you need to settle for it. As a result of it means they’re not calling to your costume sizes or something. It’s over! I’ve to get one other factor. I’ve to make one other factor occur, I suppose.”
She continued, “However am I unhappy? I simply need to say in all honesty, I’m very unhappy I’m not in it.”
Coolidge, who starred in each seasons 1 and a pair of of The White Lotus and gained an Emmy for her function, added that she “had a blast” throughout her time on the sequence. She teased that the highly-anticipated third season is “going to be good.”
“There’s going to be all kinds of fine stuff in it, most likely nice intercourse stuff,” Coolidge stated. “You know the way Mike White writes — it’s by no means, by no means a boring second. I believe he’s going to slay with this one.”
Whereas the present has remained tight-lipped with particulars, season 3 is ready to be filmed in three cities in Thailand, together with Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok, which Coolidge famous is a “good spot” for the sequence. The forged contains new faces performed by Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan and Patrick Schwarzenegger, in addition to season 1’s Natasha Rothwell.
“I promise everybody it will likely be riveting, no matter he writes,” Coolidge stated.
White has beforehand defined his resolution to deliver Coolidge’s character again for season 2 — solely to kill off her character.
“On the finish of final season, Tanya is sitting with Greg within the final episode and he’s speaking about his well being points. And she or he says, ‘I’ve had each form of therapy over time, loss of life is the final immersive expertise I haven’t tried,’” he stated in HBO Max’s Unpacking S2 E7 particular. “I used to be considering, it’d be so enjoyable to deliver Tanya again as a result of she’s such an incredible character, however possibly that’s the journey for her, a journey to loss of life.”
He continued, “Not that I actually wished to kill Tanya as a result of I like her as a personality and clearly love Jennifer, however I simply felt like, we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva — a bigger than life feminine archetype — it felt like we may devise our personal operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.”
