Sarah Michelle Gellar is lacking “The White Lotus” as a lot as the remainder of us, however she has a singular reminiscence with one in all its stars that the majority of us undoubtedly do not share. On Dec. 16, Gellar posted an epic throwback picture with Jennifer Coolidge — who performs the present’s iconic antihero Tanya McQuoid — together with a enjoyable reminiscence. “#flashbackfriday,” she wrote. “When you might be lacking having a brand new #whitelotus episode to sit up for, however you’ll all the time have the reminiscence of the time you went dancing all night time with the legend that’s @theofficialjencoolidge (full with smeared and sweaty make-up).”
Coolidge’s time in Italy on “The White Lotus” may be over, however on the age of 61, her profession solely appears to be gaining extra steam — she just lately starred in Netflix’s “The Watcher” as realtor Karen Calhoun, and he or she’ll seem alongside Jennifer Lopez in “Shotgun Wedding” in January. In an interview with Ariana Grande earlier in December, Coolidge credited her look within the musician’s “Thank U, Next” music video for her profession renaissance. “I imply, from there I bought ‘Promising Young Woman,’ and this complete factor,” she instructed Grande, who interviewed her for Entertainment Weekly. “You have been type of the instigator. I actually consider that. I believe if you happen to hadn’t put me in [‘Thank U, Next,’] and accomplished that imitation, I do not suppose I’d be right here the place I’m.”
Gellar can be reentering the onscreen world after a time away. She’s starring in “Wolf Pack,” a present from the creator of “Teen Wolf,” and likewise just lately appeared alongside Maya Hawke in “Do Revenge.” Back in September, she instructed POPSUGAR that she feels comfy returning to performing now that her youngsters are a bit older. “They get to an age the place they’re a lot extra impartial,” she mentioned. “Thanks to the invention of FaceTime and all of the issues, you may nonetheless be linked and another way — and it simply felt like that they have been of an age the place they may deal with it.”