She stole the present with two hilarious onstage moments at this month’s Golden Globes, however Jennifer Coolidge has no real interest in turning that right into a full award present internet hosting gig any time quickly.
“You know what I love about being my age? I know my limitations,” the 61-year-old star tells news.com.au.
She might have a degree – she delivered a hilariously rambling five-minute monologue about her anxieties main as much as the Globes when she took the stage to current the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Coolidge would deliver plenty of laughs as an Oscars host – however she may additionally make for a 12-hour ceremony.
“I know that that job of hosting, you have to be so conditioned for that gig, and I don’t think I’m the one. I think people would hate me by the end of the night! It would be a risk, and I don’t know that they should take that risk,” she says.
Better to stay to performing, then – and Coolidge’s White Lotus-assisted profession renaissance (or “second chance,” as she humbly calls it) continues with Shotgun Wedding, a brand new Jennifer Lopez motion rom-com out as we speak on Prime Video.
Lopez and Josh Duhamel play couple Darcy and Tom, who’ve gathered their family members collectively for a beachside vacation spot wedding ceremony that goes horribly flawed when their resort is taken over by gun-wielding pirates.
Coolidge does what Coolidge does finest – stealing the present with a splendidly OTT flip as mom of the groom, Carol.
And sure, the maths ain’t math-ing: Duhamel is 50, Coolidge 61. It is greater than a bit of odd watching him repeatedly consult with her as “mom” on-screen.
“I made the decision that she didn’t know she was pregnant, and then she had it one day. Not a lot of girls are doing that at 11, but Carol was,” Coolidge quips.
It was made much more awkward by her decidedly un-maternal emotions in the direction of the person enjoying her on-screen son.
“When I did American Pie, I was very attracted to Seann William Scott, who played my son. Then I felt the same way about Josh Duhamel. It’s hard – they’re my son! But who cares, they’re really attractive,” she laughs.
There’s undoubtedly a throughline from The White Lotus to Shotgun Wedding: Both initiatives have seen their casts assemble in unique places (Hawaii and Sicily for White Lotus, the Dominican Republic for Shotgun Wedding) for shoots that appear – not less than to us non-actors – to be half business, half pleasure.
Is Coolidge solely accepting jobs that contain a free vacation these days?
“I don’t want to go where it’s freezing,” she admits of her latest profession decisions.
“I left Hawaii and went straight to the Dominican Republic, living in a house with (co-stars)Lenny Kravitz and D’Arcy Carden, having dinner every night in a mind-blowing villa. It was paradise, really … except for being in the pool all day.”
Ah sure, that. Coolidge and plenty of of her co-stars spend a lot of the movie’s runtime fully-clothed within the resort pool, held at gunpoint by these pirates. It made for a “waterlogged” filming expertise – “and it didn’t seem like a lot of people were taking bathroom breaks,” she says.
Coolidge was her regular charming self accepting her latest Golden Globe award for The White Lotus, however one second in her speech revealed simply how a lot her inventory has risen.
Speaking from the stage, she advised sequence creator Mike White that he’d modified her life in “a million ways. My neighbours are speaking to me now. I mean it! I was never invited to one party on my hill, and now everyone’s inviting me!”
I needed to unravel this: Who on earth would have Jennifer Coolidge as a neighbour and not invite her to events?
Coolidge was completely satisfied to provide a bit extra context to the onstage admission, confessing she’d develop into one thing of a shut-in earlier than her White Lotus profession increase.
“Look, I’ve had a lot of great things happen in my life, but what I wanted in life was a challenging acting role. Mike White gave me that,” she says of her two-season stint because the troubled, self-obsessed heiress Tanya McQuoid.
“So it’s not that I wasn’t invited to things, it was that I wasn’t putting out that I was happy and wanted to be invited to things. It’s a two-way street. It opened the door for people to say hello.
“I think I was a recluse, and White Lotus made me… something else.”
Shotgun Wedding is accessible now on Prime Video.
Source: www.news.com.au
