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Jun 2022
37m 6s

Jennifer Coolidge

Los Angeles Times
About this episode

Jennifer Coolidge opens up about shifting from drama to comedy (and back again), overcoming cocaine addiction in her 20s and channeling the death of her mother to play the grieving Tanya McQuoid in ‘White Lotus.’

To read a full transcript of this interview, please visit the episode page at latimes.com

A previous version of this episode was published Dec. 7, 2021. 

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