Jennifer Coolidge Thanks ‘The White Lotus’ Creator Mike White, Others Who Kept Her “Going” During Career Lulls In Highly-Bleeped Golden Globes Speech
deadline.comWhen Jennifer Coolidge claimed her first Golden Globe at The Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, she made an impassioned speech she’d initially planned to deliver in September, but never got around to.
Coolidge has been in the midst of a dramatic, late-career breakthrough with the hugely popular supporting role of Tanya McQuoid in the HBO series The White Lotus.
Her first major awards recognition for it came at the 2022 Primetime Emmys, though as the actress noted during her speech tonight she was given the “hook” by the TV Academy before getting to say what she wanted to say the last time. “The hook came out at the last thing I got an award at, this giant hook,” Coolidge joked. “I thought it left when vaudeville ended, but this hook came out and took me off the stage at the Emmys and I didn’t get to say what I really wanted to say.” Part of what Coolidge wanted to express — that she was able to tonight — was a gratitude to those who have helped her throughout her decades entertainment, giving her the jobs that kept her career in motion. “I just want to say, some of the people that are in this room, there were like five people that kept me going for 20 years with these little jobs.
And Ryan Murphy, you were one of them,” Coolidge told the producer, who tonight accepted the Globes’ Carol Burnett Award. “I didn’t know anybody and [my career] was just sort of this thing that wasn’t going anywhere.
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