Jennifer Coolidge will check into The White Lotus again for its second season
Coolidge is the only actor from The White Lotus' first season to be confirmed to star in the next
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Mike White’s hit series White Lotus is returning for a second season, and though HBO has previously announced that the next installment would feature brand new characters, there’s one familiar face already confirmed to stir up more chaos for the show’s resort workers.
TV Line reports that Jennifer Coolidge will reprise her role as Tanya, the kooky and clueless rich lady who gave us some of The White Lotus’ most hilariously batshit moments.
We already know that this new season will also take place in a different White Lotus resort, away from Hawaii, and though TV Line doesn’t reveal exactly where it’ll be, the publication reports it’s “hearing somewhere in Europe.” Details of how Tanya figures into the second season’s plot haven’t been revealed yet, though.
So far, Coolidge is the only star from the first season to be confirmed for the next, but there are two other actors who are very interested in returning, too. Back in August, Jake Lacy, who played huge asshole Shane in the series, told The A.V. Club that he’s “100 percent” up for playing the obnoxious dipshit again. He also said he and Molly Shannon talked about wanting to keep playing the characters.
“I was texting with Molly last night before the finale because she hadn’t read ahead; she was like, ‘I just want to see it,’” he said. “And I was like, ‘Man, I hope that we get to come back, like, just in the back of a shot.’ Seeing us berating someone at the Sky Lounge or getting into it with the valet. Just something to be like, ‘Oh, God, those people are still out there. They’re still just doing their fucking thing. Like Jesus, enough is enough.’ Or I hope that I hope that they follow [Kitty]. I hope she has a major thing in the second season. I think that would be amazing.”
Having Coolidge return alongside some new difficult guests is fantastic enough; it would be great to see more of the fascinatingly horrifying characters from the first season—and maybe Lukas Gage’s butt again, too.
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Story-wise, I could see how the White Lotus resorts would comp “Huge Asshole Shane” a vacation package. In fact, I’m sure his mother demanded it at her son’s insistence. Having him show up again at a different resort seems logical. That could be a future season. However, so glad to see Tanya again.
Coolidge was fantastic… I thought Tanya’s story was complete and didn’t feel anything else needed to be said but I’m sure Mike White knows what he’s doing. I’d actually love to delve more into Shane’s mom’s world if another character was to recur. There’s so much more to uncover there.
It would be hilarious if we found out that Rachel left Shane like a week after they got back to the mainland, she was just looking to get a first class ride back & to get her stuff together.
Molly Shannon is great in general (thanks cap’t obvious) but I swear White Lotus might be her best work. She nailed every detail of that character to perfection.
I agree. She also knocks it out of the park in The Other Two, especially the second season that focuses mainly on her.
I might’ve gone into White Lotus after the hype was at it’s absolute apex or something, but I was quite disappointed and often bored by it. Coolidge’s character in particular I had heard such great things about and then she was just some ridiculous caricature. Which can also be said for most of them.
I am a bit disappointed in this as I find this character to be the least compelling out of all of them. If they’re only going to bring one character back, I would actually prefer it to be one of the staff.
This is good news, but I do hope they bring back a few more of the characters, especially if they didn’t interact really so we don’t have to carry through.