Jennifer Coolidge is going into depth about why she almost turned down her award-winning role in The White Lotus.

The 61-year-old actress, who previously stated that she was depressed during that time, was part of THR‘s Drama Actress Roundtable where she opened up about what was going on in her life when the offer first came in.

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Jennifer revealed to the others on the panel that the offer came in the middle of the pandemic.

“We were in COVID, no one knew I’d be getting a call going, ‘Hey Jennifer, my show got greenlit, let’s go do it. And it’s all going to be on a beach in bathing suits!’” she shared.

Jennifer explained that due to the pandemic and lockdown, she was also stress-eating to deal with what the world was going through.

“We were like six months into COVID, and I’d been locked up in my house in New Orleans just pigging out on these vegan pizzas. A good friend and I were doing two at breakfast, two at lunch, and two at dinner,” she went on. “So, I was just like, ‘No, I’m not doing this,’ but I didn’t tell Mike I wasn’t doing it. I just said, ‘Oh, that’s so nice, Mike. God, congratulations.’”

She added that shew as doing whatever she wanted because she “thought we were all going to die during COVID…Walk around naked, get arrested, whatever, it’s all going to be over.”

However, Jennifer did take the role as Tanya with encouragement from her BFF.

“She knew exactly what I was doing, and she was like, ‘You are an idiot. I’m not going to let you do this,’” she said. “I think this happens to actresses a lot. You sit around and bitch your whole life that you’ve never been given the role of your dreams, and then when it comes, you’re like, ‘Yeah, I can’t do it. I ate a bunch of pizza.’ You can ruin it.”

“Yeah, and look, they have Sydney Sweeney and Alexandra Daddario to wear those bathing suits, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Jennifer says. “I don’t know, it was self-hate and not being prepared.”

Jennifer has won a total of 8 awards for her role in The White Lotus so far.

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