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Jennifer Coolidge was Drawn to her 'Riff Raff' Character Because She is a 'Loser'
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3/24/2025
Jennifer Coolidge stars alongside Pete Davidson, Gabrielle Union and Bill Murray in the new movie 'Riff Raff.' She also discusses her role as Tanya in 'White Lotus' and how it helped her get to this point in her career.
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There's a side of Ruth that's just completely clueless and I can relate to that, so I felt
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like I could play it.
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Just clueless about how much she had to do with her life going, you know, the wrong way.
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I mean, people would call her a loser.
00:17
You know, she'd had a great sort of exciting life and like a bombshell back in the day
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and you know, everyone had crushes on her and stuff and then she just, you know, picked
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a guy that sort of had lost interest in her.
00:29
What are you doing?
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I get horny when I'm scared.
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I'm married.
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Who cares?
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It's just us in this shitty wildlife, you know?
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Get off of me.
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What?
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I'm not gonna.
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Come on.
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I'm not gonna, Ruth.
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What's that?
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Shame.
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You were gonna put something that hard to waste.
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I've had a pretty great life, so I don't want to say woe is me about anything because I've,
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you know, I had a pretty good life, but I made a lot of terrible decisions in my life
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and I messed up my life, you know, by my own actions and I don't know.
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I just like, I like that.
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I like to play people that are, have been screwed over in life and don't get everything
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they want to have, but still are forced to deal with what's left and I don't know, they're
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interesting and I kind of, I kind of knew a couple of people like that.
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I had a really good time on this film playing Ruth and stuff.
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I think doing Tanya in White Lotus was sort of cool just because it was very glamorous.
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I wasn't freezing my ass off in a, you know, a tiny house in the woods when we were doing
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White Lotus, but it was very glamorous.
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I have to say the Sicilian countryside, you know, it was very fancy.
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It was a very fancy experience, but at the same time, the actual payoff of like getting
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to play a character like Ruth, even though it wasn't glamorous, it was really interesting
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and I got to meet that, the cast of A Lifetime and I'm like getting to work with my heroes.
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I mean, I think that is the ultimate compliment.
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That would be enough almost really is just meeting these people.
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I don't, you know, it's the job is to just, you know, the extra benefit, but meeting these
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people, you know, people that you've have all kinds of thoughts about them and, you
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know, I don't know, just admiring someone, I mean, you know, when you're people, you
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really, that are really sort of true heroes and some of them are hilarious and then some
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of them are just scary good actors too.
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The Riff Raff cast had a lot of people that were, that are like, I think in anybody's
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book, like the top of the top.
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I mean, you know, they're just the creme de la creme.
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Yes, and you know, this is, I'm so glad you brought that up because, you know, Ditto is
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a genius and, but I don't know, would we have crossed paths?
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I mean, that was so great.
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If you get the great thing about, you know, the lucky thing, if you're an actress, you're
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on a good show or something that someone else happens to watch, you get another job out
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of the deal.
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And you know, to be honest, I couldn't have possibly predicted that that was going to
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be, even though I think Mike was a genius and all that, I just didn't have any idea
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that that job, it was such a surprise that that would be where so many people responded,
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you know?
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I like surprises, you know, where you think you decide whether someone, something's going
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to be successful or not, you know, you can really be off on it.
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And I don't know, I was, I was certainly surprised by all of that, by the, you know, the, you
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know, amount of people that responded to it.
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