Jennifer Coolidge Reveals Why She's an Awards Season Darling This Year
justjared.comJennifer Coolidge is having quite a year. The 61-year-old White Lotus actress started 2023 by winning a Critics Choice Award and a Golden Globe. “I think people liked that I was the underdog,” Jennifer said. Keep reading to find out more… “I played a lot of strange women, and people were amused by the comedies I’ve done.
Then Mike White put me in The White Lotus and it was a drama and comedy at the same time — I never really had that,” she told People. “Something happened this awards season,” Jennifer added. “I don’t know if they just played clips of me so many times on the Internet or Instagram, but it doesn’t matter what disguise I have on, I can be wearing a frog costume with a helmet and people know it’s me.
I was recently walking in the North End in Boston, and I couldn’t make it down the street. I think it’s so interesting. I guess it’s the Internet.
I don’t know — or maybe I have a weird walk.” Jennifer also received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year award. “It was unbelievable,” she said of the young talent that roasted her. “They wrote and choreographed this mind-blowing show, and it was brilliant.
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