Spoilers for The White Lotus finale ahead.
Saying goodbye is never easy to do, but when the person you have to say goodbye to is The White Lotus’ lovably doofy Tanya, played by Jennifer Coolidge, it’s even harder.
In a shocking ending to the show’s second season last night, Tanya, the only guest to check in for both seasons, was revealed to be the body Daphne (Meghann Fahy) found bobbing in the ocean in the first episode She went out in the most Tanya way possible: Successfully gunning down a handful of gay men trying to murder her for her fortune on a yacht, only to botch the dismount to her escape dinghy, conking her head on the boat and drowning.
Coolidge spoke with Vanity Fair the day after the premiere and shared her reaction to learning Tanya’s fate, how she spent the premiere night, and whether she would have taken off those heels before trying to escape.
Vanity Fair: What a 24 hours for you, huh? Congratulations on the Golden Globe nomination and everything.
Jennifer Coolidge: Yeah, wow, unexpected!
Which part– the reaction to the show, or the nomination, or all of it?
All of it! It’s crazy and fun and I was so grateful. I’m forever wondering if this is all some weird dream. There’s a side of me that’s just like how is this, how could I be this blindsided, just because it just each day is sort of better than the next.
What have you been hearing from people about the finale?
Oh, well. People didn’t know. I thought people were faking it. I thought people were faking it with me when they’re like, you know, I’m really nervous about tomorrow. I’m like, yeah, right. You have to agree. But somehow, you know, when we were on that boat shooting that scene, no one told their wives or their husbands, or their brothers or sisters or their lovers. You know, no one told anybody about the ending I guess. They were able to keep it under wraps.
You were not on my bingo card! That was not the fatal head wound that I expected. I gotta take a bereavement day.
I know, I’m so surprised. Maybe people thought because I know Kase Wickman Mike [White] and maybe they thought he wasn’t gonna kill off his friend or something. Who knows? I don’t know. But people didn’t expect me.
Do you watch along with the world? What are you doing at 9 pm on Sundays?
I had a private date with Mike White. I hadn’t seen it and he came over to my house and we watched it together.
That’s what you were doing last night? That’s amazing.
Yeah, but then after we watched it, we went to another person’s house where the cast was watching it. [Note: Hear more about this in Meghann Fahy’s appearance on the Still Watching podcast.] And then we said hi to them. And then Mike and some of the actors, you know, half of us or something, we went up to this guy Steven’s house. Steven Levy is a manager. And he was having a screening party at his house and we surprised him. The screening, it had just ended in the little screening room in his house. And then the real cast walked in and surprised him. He was in a state of shock.
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