It’s been a year since Jennifer Coolidge’s White Lotus character, Tanya, fatally bit it while fleeing a yacht of murdersome gays, and during Monday’s 2024 Emmy ceremony, the character was toasted one final time in Hollywood.
“I want to thank all the evil gays,” Coolidge said after collecting her second Emmy. She thanked White Lotus creator Mike White for casting her on the series and closed out her stage time—watched closely by the ceremony’s designated bouncer, host Anthony Anderson’s mom—by saying, “I had a little dream in my little town” that came true. “Don’t give up on your dreams.”
The actor beat out several White Lotus costars for the title: Meghann Fahy, Sabrina Impacciatore, Aubrey Plaza, and Simona Tabasco, as well as J. Smith-Cameron from Succession, Elizabeth Debicki from The Crown, and Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul.
In 2022, Coolidge won the Emmy for supporting actor in a limited series for her turn as Tanya in White Lotus’s Hawaiian-set first season. When the show returned for a second go, it moved into the drama category.
Though Tanya is dead, White has said that he’d consider reviving the character for a prequel set about 20 years before the events in recent seasons. Coolidge herself has even suggested a setting for the flashback season: Australia.
Had White Lotus been nominated any other year, the HBO series—which earned 23 total nods this year—would have swept the awards ceremony. But many of the White Lotus nominees were elbowed out of contention by the stars of Succession, who were taking their final Emmy lap this year.
Earlier this month, HBO confirmed that Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Tayme Thapthimthong, and Parker Posey will be joining returning cast member Natasha Rothwell for The White Lotus’s third season, which is set in Thailand and will begin filming next month.
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