Jennifer Coolidge almost missed out on playing Tanya McQuoid. During 's drama actress roundtable, the 61-year-old actress reveals how her now-iconic role on nearly slipped through her grasp.«Mike and I were going to do another show, which had been turned down by a lot of people, and he mentioned he was going to write [his next] show about rich people on vacation, but I never heard anything more about it,» Coolidge tells Claire Danes, Emma D'Arcy, Dominique Fishback, Jennifer Garner and Melanie Lynskey of Mike White, the show's creator.Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, Coolidge explains.«We were like six months into COVID, and I'd been locked up in my house in New Orleans just pigging out on these vegan pizzas.
A good friend and I were doing two at breakfast, two at lunch and two at dinner,» she says. «We were in COVID, no one knew I'd be getting a call going, 'Hey Jennifer, my show got greenlit, let's go do it.
And it’s all going to be on a beach in bathing suits!' So, I was just like, 'No, I'm not doing this,' but I didn’t tell Mike I wasn't doing it.
I just said, 'Oh, that's so nice, Mike. God, congratulations.'»Coolidge says she «thought we were all going to die» during the pandemic, so she adopted a «do whatever you want» mindset in terms of her diet and other aspects in her life.«But then it started to become a real thing,» Coolidge says of , «and I was hearing from business people.»She eventually heard from White too. "[I heard] that little ping in my bedroom in New Orleans at like 2 a.m.
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