Jennifer Coolidge thanks Mike White, creator of The White Lotus and others for keeping her “going” during her career hiatus in a very squeaky Golden Globes speech

As Jennifer Coolidge accepted her first Golden Globe at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, she delivered an impassioned speech she had originally planned for September.

Coolidge is in the midst of a dramatic late-career breakthrough with the wildly popular satire The White Lotus. The first major recognition for her work on the HBO series came at the Primetime Emmys in 2022. But as the actress revealed at the Globes, after being recognized for the same role, she got the “hook” from TV Academy last fall got before she could say what she had to say.

“The hook came on the last thing I got an award for, that giant hook,” Coolidge joked. “I thought it was gone when the variety ended, but that hook came out and got me off the podium.”

Part of what Coolidge wanted to convey — and she was able to do it tonight — was that she had it
“big dreams and hopes” for herself as a younger person, even though it seemed to “bubble” throughout her life. While she may once have thought she would become “Queen of Monaco,” she ultimately thought, “None of this is going to happen again.”

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Fortunately, she said, over the years there have been a handful of people who have gone out of their way to help her and give her work that has helped her career. “Ryan Murphy, you were one of them,” Coolidge told the producer, who was accepting the Globes’ Carol Burnett Award tonight. The actress also married Michael Patrick King (surname Sex and the city fame), as well as she Naturally blonde Employee Reese Witherspoon and the creative people behind it American cake franchise at Universal for the positive impact they had on their careers. “I milked it to the bone,” she said of the latest film franchise. “I mean I’m still going for six or seven or whatever they want.”

Coolidge then started thanking Mike White – the creator of The White Lotus who was her boyfriend long before she wrote the water dispenser phenomenon. “[Mike’s] he cares about the world, he cares about people, he cares about animals,” the actress said. “He really is one of the best people I’ve ever met.”

Coolidge also specifically thanked White for playing her The White Lotuswhich she says has given her new “hope” and a sense of “fresh start”.

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“This is the end, because you killed me [on The White Lotus]’ said the actress with a straight face. “But it doesn’t matter because even if this is the end, you’ve changed my life in a million different ways.” My neighbors talk to me, stuff like that.”

The White Lotus is a dark comedy that explores the interactions between staff and guests at a series of luxury hotels. One of the few characters to return to Sicily for the show’s second season was Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid — a ghostly and outrageously wealthy vacationer who this time thwarted an attempt to kill her, only to die. which White mostly called “derpy”. .

Coolidge was also nominated at the Globes for The White Lotus This time last year, it won in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Movie Made for TV category. She had the upper hand over the competition she belonged to white lotus Season 2 also starred Aubrey Plaza Fleishman is in troubleby Claire Danes, Under the banner of heavenby Daisy Edgar Jones and Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmersaid Niecy Nash-Betts.

Renewed for a third season in November, The White Lotus also won the Golden Globe for Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture tonight, with White accepting the award. During his big moment later in the show, White said he was still “so choked up” by Coolidge’s speech — and admittedly quite “drunk” “because there was no food” at his table.

See Coolidge’s acknowledgments above.