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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Coolidge hotter than ever thanks for her award winning

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Speaker 2: turn as Tanya on the hit show White Lotus, but

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Speaker 2: Jennifer admitted during a recent actors roundtable for The Hollywood

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Speaker 2: Reporter she was this close to turning the job down altogether.

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Speaker 2: Jan explains it was six months into the twenty twenty lockdown,

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Speaker 2: after she and a friend had been indulging on daily

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Speaker 2: vegan pizzas and being lethargic when she got the call.

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Speaker 2: It was her friend White Lotus creator Mike White inviting

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Speaker 2: her to do the show, and Jennifer fell out of

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Speaker 2: shape mentally unprepared give them the state of the world. She

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Speaker 2: didn't know how to tell Mike yet, but decided she

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Speaker 2: was going to say no. She says. Then one night,

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Speaker 2: like two am, Mike texted me, are you afraid? He knew?

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Speaker 2: But I still wasn't going to do it. And I

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Speaker 2: think this happens to actresses a lot. You complain your

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Speaker 2: whole life that you've never been given the role of

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Speaker 2: your dreams, and then when it comes you're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can't do that. I had a bunch of pizza.

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Speaker 2: You can ruin it and thank god, my bestie just

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Speaker 2: caught on to my BS. She was like, you're an idiot.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to let you do this. Clearly, her

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Speaker 2: friend convinced her and Jen as the Emmys and Golden

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Speaker 2: Globes to prove it. Season two of White Lotus streaming

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Speaker 2: now on

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Speaker 1: Max that's direct from Hollywood