We spoke w/ Jennifer Coolidge & Jon Gries about 'The White Lotus,' Tanya's stability and Greg's demons.
From creator/writer/director Mike White, the second installment of the HBO series The White Lotus is set at a beautiful resort in Sicily, Italy, where hotel manager Valentina is ready to assist various guests achieve everything they want out of their trip, whether that’s with family, for business reasons, or of a more romantic nature.
How did you find out? Was he the one that made the phone call to tell you that it was actually happening? COOLIDGE: Yeah, I really did. Someone asked me once, if I would rather have been a new character and come in as a whole new person, and I have to say that Tanya, as a character, was really cool. She was so burdened with her incredible despair and depression with the loss of her mother, and she was grieving so much of the time, that I felt like you barely even got to know who she is. But who is she, beyond that? So, when Mike offered Tanya again, I would have been an idiot to say no.