Jennifer Coolidge says ‘The White Lotus’ helped her break from “gold digger” typecast roles
nme.comHBO series The White Lotus.The actor, known for playing Jeanine Stifler in American Pie, beautician Paulette in Legally Blonde and gold digger Sherri Ann Cabot in 2000 film Best In Show, discussed how she felt “locked” into certain roles over the past decade.Speaking to Vanity Fair in conversation with American Pie co-star Natasha Lyonne, Coolidge said: “I did these jobs that I felt like locked me into a certain perception.
I was in this weird bubble for a really long time. And it just goes to show that you should really hold out and not just keep repeating yourself, but I was always desperate for the job.
A lot of the time I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever have an offer again.’“Truly, except for a few fun little movie jobs like Austenland, it wasn’t until Mike White really gave me a part [in The White Lotus] where I was really playing something very different.
Look, everything happens in its time, but there was this very long period of just repeating myself.”She added: “I’m saying there was a period where, except for an occasional Christopher Guest movie, the scripts arriving at my door were lots of gold digger parts.
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