Speaking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable, the Legally Blonde actress addressed her intellectual nation when director Mike White approached her for The White Lotus movie.
“We had been in COVID, and no one knew I’d be getting a call going, ‘Hey Jennifer, my exhibit bought greenlit, let’s go do it. And it is all going to be on a seashore in bathing suits!’” published Coolidge.
The actress shared, “We have been like six months into COVID, and I’d been locked up in my residence in New Orleans simply pigging out on these vegan pizzas.
“An excellent buddy and I had been doing two at breakfast, two at lunch, and two at dinner. So, I was once simply like, ‘No, I’m now not doing this,’ however, I did not inform Mike I wasn’t doing it. I simply said, ‘Oh, it’s so nice, Mike. God, congratulations,’” defined Coolidge.
The actress stated that the pandemic impacted her life.
“I notion we had been all going to die in the course of COVID,” admitted Coolidge.
The actress remarked, “Just do anything you want. Walk round naked, get arrested, whatever, it is all going to be over.”
“I assume this takes place to actresses a lot. You take a seat round and bitch the complete existence that you have in no way been given the position of your dreams, and then when it comes, you are like, ‘Yeah, I cannot do it. I ate a bunch of pizza.’ You can damage it,” disclosed Coolidge.
The actress believed actresses like Sydney Sweeney and Alexandra Daddario may want to put on these bathing suits.
“I do not comprehend why I rejected the role. It was once self-hate and no longer being prepared,” she added.
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