SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the Season 2 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge has weighed in on Tanya McQuoid’s checkout from the hit HBO series.
Her response when creator Mike White first told her his plans for her heiress character? “What? What? Oh, come on, Mike. Really?” In conversation with Deadline on Monday, Coolidge shared that White first approached her about returning for Season 2 maybe “a month before he even pondered up” a concrete idea for the new installment’s story.
She wasn’t aware at the time that Tanya would die in the finale, which aired last night, though that revelation would come during a second call while she was in New York filming Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, The Watcher. “He said, ‘Sicily is incredible.
That’s where we’re going to film White Lotus 2. You’re going to lose your mind, Jennifer. It’s so beautiful here,'” she recalls. “And then he goes, ‘Oh yeah, one other thing.
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