Jennifer Coolidge claims that “The White Lotus” helped her break out of her “gold digger” stereotype

Jennifer Coolidge has said she felt typecast with “gold digger” roles before starring in HBO  series “The White Lotus”

The performer, who is best known for her roles as Jeanine Stifler in American Pie, Paulette in Legally Blonde, and Sherri Ann Cabot in Best In Show, talked about how she felt “locked” into particular parts over the last 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. It was a certain kind of thing that I had already done. I guess that’s what happens to us a lot unless we steer it a different way.

“I wish I had been more involved in the control of my career. I just sat back, I was very passive.”

Coolidge was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus, for which she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

So far, she’s the only member of the first season’s cast who will return for season two. Michael Imperioli, Aubrey Plaza, Haley Lu Richardson, F. Murray Abraham, Adam DiMarco, Tom Hollander, Theo James, Meghann Fahy, Will Sharpe, and Leo Woodall are among the new cast members.

Filming for the second season began in February at Taormina’s San Domenico Palace, as well as other locations throughout Sicily.

“There is so much there, all the time, bubbling to the surface, and it would take an impatient viewer not to be seduced by it all,” NME noted in a five-star review of The White Lotus.

“Rarely is there a moment where one of the guests isn’t happy or angry, confused or offended, and White manages to balance it all without the whole thing feeling false or like the worst parts of a soap opera. This, as many failed TV shows prove, is a Herculean effort.”

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