Meghann Fahy accidentally kicked Jennifer Coolidge in the face while filming pivotal “White Lotus” scene
The actress shares her costar's very chill response.
Jennifer Coolidge had a very la dolce vita attitude about being kicked in the face by The White Lotus costar Meghann Fahy.
Fahy appeared on Monday's episode of Jimmy Fallon's late night show and discussed the parallels of a body washing ashore in her new series The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus, revealing that she accidentally clocked Coolidge one via her foot. It occurred while they were filming the season 2 scene where Fahy's Daphne discovers the dead body of Tanya (Coolidge) floating in the ocean.
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"She did a lot of actually floating down in water," Fahy said of Coolidge. "And when we were shooting it, I did actually kick her in the face at one point. I felt so bad. They wanted to get a shot under the water of my foot making contact with her body, but I couldn't see where her body was. So she was just like, floating, waiting for my foot to like enter her general space."
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Coolidge's response? "She came up out of the water and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm so sorry,'" Fahy recalled. "And she was like, 'Hey, man. You got to just go for it. Don't worry about me.'"
Quipped Fallon, "That is a professional."
The Sicily-set season 2 followed the exploits of married couple Ethan (Will Sharpe) and Harper (Aubrey Plaza) as they vacationed with the wealthy Daphne and Cameron (Theo James). Also on holiday is Tanya and husband Greg (Jon Gries), and three generations of Di Grasso men played by Adam DiMarco, F. Murray Abraham, and Michael Imperioli.
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Coolidge's heiress Tanya meets her demise after a shootout with some murderous gays, led by conman Quentin (Tom Hollander), aboard their yacht. When series creator Mike White informed Coolidge she would be killed off, "I said to him jokingly throughout the filming, I'm like, 'You don't have to, you know? Tanya doesn't have to die,'" Coolidge told Entertainment Weekly post-finale.
But in all seriousness, "I don't really know Mike's writing process, but it's like all these pieces to a puzzle and so when he comes up with something like Tanya has to die, I mean, she really did," Coolidge added. "This was an episode about women and all that they have to put up with and all their survival techniques. . . there's a lot of betrayal going on in this show. There was a lot of women in this show having to survive a lot of different aspects of being a woman."
Watch Fahy's chat with Fallon above.
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