It's astir intolerable to fathom now, but the relation of Tanya McQuoid astir went to idiosyncratic different than Jennifer Coolidge. 

Jennifer, the lone histrion to span the spread betwixt seasons 1 and 2 of The White Lotus, said she initially turned down the bid due to the fact that she had overloaded connected carbs. "It was COVID, [I was] locked up with this precise bully miss that I knew successful New Orleans," Jennifer told People Sept. 1. "It was conscionable precise lonely times...and truthful she and I got obsessed with these vegan pizzas and we were eating a batch of them each day."

When creator Mike White offered her the part, she declined due to the fact that she didn't deliberation she was successful "fighting shape."

Luckily, Jennifer's pizza-loving pal talked immoderate consciousness into her.

"'You are retired of your mind,'" Jennifer recalled her person saying. "'I don't adjacent deliberation you cognize what this is. This is self-sabotage. I've been your person each these years, this is unthinkable accidental for you. Are you truly going to f--k this up? Are you truly going to f--k this up, Jennifer? This is the worst happening you could bash to yourself. Just go, conscionable f--king spell bash it. Are you ever going to beryllium successful shape?'"

The rest, arsenic they say, is history—and Jennifer won an Emmy for her instantly-iconic show successful play one.

First of all, did you cognize that White Lotus creator Mike White—who besides wrote 2003's School of Rock and co-created HBO's Enlightened—competed connected Survivor: David vs. Goliath?

Mike, who has also appeared connected 2 seasons of The Amazing Race, finished successful 2nd spot connected the reality-competition bid successful 2018.

So, erstwhile helium needed to formed a mates of actresses with plentifulness of acquisition sitting connected a formation for the play 2 premiere, helium looked nary further than Survivor co-stars Angelina Keeley and Kara Kay. In the scene, the brace beryllium seaside arsenic Daphne (Meghann Fahy) greets them earlier hopping into the water—and uncovering a dormant body.

When Angelina and Kara received their scripts, they were shocked to find retired that they were really going to beryllium a portion of the story. 

"I was like, Maybe we're successful the background, waving, drinking immoderate cocktails," Kara told Vulture Oct. 30. "Then we got a draught of the publication and realized, ohio we person lines, we're going to accidental something. We're going to beryllium acting."

Mike White besides reached into his past to formed the relation of Dominic Di Grasso's (Michael Imperioli) estranged woman Abby, recruiting Enlightened prima Laura Dern. If you missed her, though, you're forgiven—because we lone perceive Abby's voice.

In a brief, heated speech with Dominic, Abby shouts an emphatic "f--k you" earlier hanging up. 

Must beryllium bully to have an Oscar winner connected velocity dial.

Much similar play one, the full formed really stayed successful the aforesaid edifice wherever they filmed during play two—which led to immoderate spooky happenings.

"The monastery was haunted," Aubrey told E! News Oct. 30. "The edifice was haunted. It was the ghosts. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, oregon whatever."

However, Aubrey's claims mightiness person conscionable been a beforehand for the pranks that she pulled connected the remainder of the formed passim filming.

"I did a prank connected 1 of the formed mates erstwhile once helium didn't know," she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live Aug. 18. "I went into his country and I near this benignant of witchy awesome made retired of sticks connected the floor."

The shenanigans, arsenic it turned out, had consequences.

"I was flagged successful the edifice and successful the town," she added. "I'm not allowed to spell backmost to Sicily."

For a peculiarly outrageous country successful play one—in which Steve Zahn, who played Mark, flashes his penis to woman Nicole, played by Connie Britton—there was arsenic overmuch collaboration off-screen arsenic determination was betwixt Steve and Connie.

"I retrieve erstwhile I got the publication asking Mike if I was going to person to bash afloat frontal. And he's like, ‘No, it's going to beryllium a prosthetic,'" Steve told TheWrap. "I did person to o.k. the prosthetic that they used. He showed it to maine first. And I was like, ‘Yeah, that'll do.'"

When it came clip to movie the scandalous moment, however, Steve wasn't adjacent involved. "No, that was my assemblage double," helium said. "I asked if I was going to person to deterioration it and [Mike] goes, ‘Well, it's 2 hours successful the constitution seat and we don't spot your look truthful we don't request you to.'"

The magic of Hollywood!

In summation to the instrumentality of Tanya McQuoid, the 2nd play of The White Lotus besides featured the instrumentality of prosthetic penises. 

During a country from the season's archetypal episode, Theo James, who plays cocky financier Cameron, showed disconnected his monolithic extremity portion changing into a swimsuit successful afloat presumption of Harper (Aubrey Plaza), his champion friend's wife.

As it turns out, Theo besides got immoderate help.

"You spell into these things and you person a speech with the manager and the producers and they go, ‘OK, for this, we're going to usage a prosthetic. We're going to usage something,'" the histrion said connected The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Dec. 2. "And you say, 'OK, that sounds good.'"

Theo insisted that helium didn't privation the prosthetic to beryllium "too distracting," but arsenic viewers cognize now, it was hard to speech astir thing other aft the occurrence aired.

"We get to acceptable and [the make-up designer] has got similar a hammer oregon something," Theo joked. "I mean, it's bigger than that. It's similar she stole it disconnected a donkey successful the field. I mean, the happening is ginormous."

All things considered, not the worst occupation to have.

Eagle-eyed cinephiles noticed a precise circumstantial notation during a play 2 country successful which Harper, played by Aubrey Plaza, walks the streets of Noto arsenic a radical of Italian men situation her and statesman to suffocate her with their wide-eyed flirtations.

The country is simply a nonstop notation to the 1960 movie L'Avventura, wherever the aforesaid happening happens to Claudia, played by Monica Vitti.

You tin cheque retired the side-by-side examination here.

On the taxable of being stalked, Aubrey had to woody with a real-life mentation successful the signifier of her co-star Haley Lu Richardson—who plays Tanya's adjunct Portia—years earlier they some checked into The White Lotus together.

"I cognize she has a batch of crazed fans, but I'm astir apt 1 of the apical three," Haley said connected Jimmy Kimmel Live Dec. 5. "I legitimately stalked her. I didn't conscionable stalk her connected societal media—like, I showed up to places I was not invited, knowing she was there. I got adjacent to her cousins and her friends truthful that I would beryllium invited into her life. And it worked!"

Uh, OK.

Haley went connected to uncover that she really managed to get invited to Aubrey's day enactment 1 year—which didn't precisely spell precise well.

"She saw maine from crossed the bar, and she conscionable went 'You,' and walked away," Haley recalled. "It was the champion happening that's ever happened to me."

But honestly, what other could you perchance privation from an enactment with Aubrey Plaza?