The White Lotus: Jennifer Coolidge Will Reprise Role as Tanya in Season 2
A familiar name will be written in The White Lotus‘ guest book next season.
Jennifer Coolidge, whose Season 2 return to the HBO dramedy was reported in October, will indeed be reprising her Season 1 role as socialite Tanya McQuoid, TVLine has confirmed.
Season 2 will be set in Sicily, at another White Lotus resort and featuring a whole new set of guests, apart from Tanya. (Michael Imperioli, Aubrey Plaza and F. Murray Abraham are among the actors joining the cast for Season 2.) When TVLine first reported that Coolidge would be returning for Season 2, it wasn’t clear at the time if she’d be playing Tanya or possibly a new character.
“I do think people will like [Season 2], based on the scenes that I’ve witnessed of other people,” Coolidge told TVLine in a recent interview. “I think people are really going to be riveted.”
Coolidge first played Tanya McQuoid — a loopy socialite who went to Hawaii to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased mother — in The White Lotus‘ freshman season, which debuted on HBO last July. Series creator Mike White hinted at the time that he could potentially bring back a few Season 1 favorites for the second season. “I don’t think you can credibly have [all the Season 1 guests] on the same vacation again,” he explained. “But maybe it could be a Marvel Universe type thing, where some of them would come back.”
News that Coolidge would be reprising her Season 1 role was first revealed back in March when a TV Academy spokesperson told our sister pub Variety that The White Lotus would be eligible to compete in the limited series race despite the “reappearance in a subsequent season of one character” — i.e., Tanya — “from a large ensemble.”
Are you happy to hear Tanya will be checking back into The White Lotus? (And is she still with that guy Greg, ya think?) Hit the comments below to share your thoughts.
I hope she’s there to scatter Greg’s ashes (wasn’t he dying?) like she was with her mother’s in season 1.
Yes, he was sick and my thoughts went there as well…
This makes sense. She’s wealthy and likely travels to their [White Lotus’] various locations.
Yes!!!! Definitely!!! And I hope some of the staff are back again too! Transferred to Sicily after their crazy time in Hawaii!
I absolutely LOVE JENNIFER COOLIDGE, I think she was a huge reason 2 Broke Girls went on for 6 seasons. Yes, I know she was reoccurring the first season but they didn’t let her go as soon as she walked through those doors and yelled Good Morning Everybody!
Happy for her and the show!
Love it!! She is the character that makes the most sense, and could easily pop up in every future season.
We want Murray Barlett back, but he’s
dead. :-(
Love that she’s back and very excited to see Theo James in this series. I am a fan after The Time Traveler’s Wife, the man can act!
yes, but will we get to see him butt nekkid all the time lol?
This show was such a treat. No word on when it will return yet?
So tell me again how it’s eligible for the limited series categories at the Emmy’s when it’s now considered as a continuation of the first season?
https://variety.com/2022/tv/awards/the-white-lotus-limited-emmys-1235294140/
“in this case, the reappearance in a subsequent ‘season’ of one character from a large ensemble does not prohibit eligibility based on Academy’s main criteria for limited series.”