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Jennifer Coolidgeis having the best year ever.
The White Lotusstar — who kicked off 2023 with aGolden Globe, aCritics Choice Award, aHasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of Year honor, aSuper Bowl commercial for e.l.f. Cosmeticsand lots of memorable memes — is now opening up to PEOPLE about her whirlwind few months.
And it seems everyone on the red carpet — and off — wants to snap a selfie with her.
“Something happened this awards season. I don’t know if they just played clips of me so many times on the Internet or Instagram, but it doesn’t matter what disguise I have on, I can be wearing a frog costume with a helmet and people know it’s me,” she says. “I was recently walking in the North End in Boston, and I couldn’t make it down the street. I think it’s so interesting. I guess it’s the Internet. I don’t know — or maybe I have a weird walk.”
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Earlier this month, the Boston native was in town to be presented with theHasty Pudding TheatricalsWoman of the Year award, anhonor which meant a great deal to heras her father and three uncles are all Harvard alum.
“It was unbelievable,” she tells PEOPLE. “They wrote and choreographed this mind-blowing show, and it was brilliant. They gave me a parade and we had dinners and I got to hang out with the kids and I got indoctrinated.”
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“These kids could all have jobs right now — they’re all such winners at such an early age. Everyone in that show has such a developed comedic timing at just 18, 19, 20. I didn’t have that at that age,” she recalls. “I was just blown away. I thought it was so moving to see these young people who are going to have huge careers.”
So what’s next for the star? “I just want to lie in my bed for a week with my dog,” she says. “I want to absolutely not move.”
That is unless Mike White calls to cast the ghost of Tanya McQuoid inThe White Lotusseason 3.
“That would get me out of bed, for sure,” she jokes.
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source: people.com
