Jennifer Coolidge Cries About ‘Amazing Parents’ During 2023 SAG Awards Acceptance Speech
usmagazine.comHappy tears! Jennifer Coolidge got emotional during her acceptance speech at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild awards.The Best in Show actress, 61, earned the accolade for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Tanya on season 2 of The White Lotus.
While accepting the statue, Coolidge thanked the show’s creator, Mike White, and teared up sharing an anecdote about her parents.“Mike White, you can give money to friends … and people like money.
The best gift you can give to someone is change their perspective. And that’s what Mike White did for me,” the 2 Broke Girls alum said during the Sunday, February 26, ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesShe continued: “What I really want to say is, I had these amazing parents.
It was impossible for them to lie.” The Massachusetts native explained that one day, her father took her out of school after making up a fake excuse.“I got in the car with my dad … and he said, ‘I’m never going to tell a lie again, but we’re going somewhere really cool,’” Coolidge recalled, noting that her dad then took her to see a Charlie Chaplin performance. “It’s my love of film.
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