Jennifer Coolidge Talks 'Trophy Wife' Typecasting in Previous Projects
Jennifer Coolidge opened up about how she was stuck in a typecasting rut before The White Lotus and her new film Riff Raff . “When I did Best in Show for the longest time, I was just offered these sort of trophy wife parts over and over,” the actress exclusively told Us Weekly . “There would be scripts at my front doorstep. And I’d pick ’em up and I’d be like, ‘Ah, I know exactly what these are gonna be.’” Coolidge’s intuition was right on the money as most of the offers coming her way had a similar theme. “And sure enough, a lot of ’em were just sort of the same woman and a rich guy, spoiled wife being offered continually as if that was all I could do,” she confessed. Jennifer Coolidge: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me! As Coolidge hoped to find variety in her projects, she found game-changing success with The White Lotus . Coolidge played Tanya McQuoid on Mike White’s critically acclaimed HBO anthology series, the only character to return for both seasons 1 and 2 o...