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Shotgun Wedding Makes Your Jennifer Coolidge White Lotus Memes Way Better
Hot off of her fabulous turn as Tanya in HBO's The White Lotus season 2, Jennifer Coolidge stars in the comedy Shotgun Wedding, with one particular scene making certain White Lotus memes all the more hysterical. In the movie, Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as Darcy and Tom, two lovebirds tying the knot at a destination wedding in the Philippines, with Coolidge playing Tom's eccentric mother, Carol. When pirates interrupt the ceremony and take the wedding party hostage, Darcy and Tom must find a way to save the day. Carol proves herself surprisingly useful.
Whether it's in all the Christopher Guest mockumentaries (like Best in Show), the Legally Blonde movies (she'll return in Legally Blonde 3's cast), or as the lovably messy Tanya in The White Lotus, Coolidge always stands out — even in a large ensemble cast. Her iconic performance in The White Lotus has generated dozens of memes, with the most viral ones referencing the wild ending of season 2 that no one saw coming. Now, with a similar character and a similar situation in Shotgun Wedding, Coolidge memes have taken on a whole new layer of hilarity.
Shotgun Wedding Adds To White Lotus' Jennifer Coolidge Gun Memes
Thanks to the spectacular poolside scene, Shotgun Wedding adds to The White Lotus memes where Coolidge's character Tanya is running around with a gun. When Tom and the other guests convince the pirates to let the ceremony continue, they try to devise a way to use the wedding to cover up an escape plan. The guests sing to create a distraction while Tom and Darcy rush the pirates, and Carol grabs one of their weapons and lets bullets fly. Given The White Lotus season 2 ending on Quentin's boat, Twitter was all over Coolidge running around with a gun again.
In The White Lotus' sequence of events, after discovering she's been kidnaped and intended to be killed for her money, Tanya has to come up with an escape plan of her own. As Carol in Shotgun Wedding, Coolidge similarly grabs one of her captors' guns and goes on a rampage, completely shocking audiences with the event's level of violence and brutality. Seeing Carol with a machine gun mowing down pirates so soon after watching Tanya blow away kidnapers on a boat in The White Lotus has made for some hilariously meta memes that make Coolidge not only a trending star but part of a niche.
Jennifer Coolidge's Current Success Is So Well Deserved
Coolidge has always been a unique talent who adds a special quality to any project she's a part of, and the critical acclaim that she's been receiving for her recent performances is well-deserved and long overdue. Other starring roles in the true crime series The Watcher and Shotgun Wedding have reminded audiences that Coolidge has always been a reliably entertaining actress who can easily fit into multiple genres. While she's a shoo-in for comedy, The White Lotus was specifically written for her by series creator and longtime friend Mike White, as he knew she could convey a certain depth of emotion, if given the chance.
Thanks to her consistently great performances and the memes they've inspired, Coolidge has gone viral in a way that marks a real moment in the cultural zeitgeist and her career. In her acceptance speech for winning the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology series for The White Lotus, she explained that her career had been sustained by people giving her "little jobs." After her appearance in Shotgun Wedding, it's safe to say that she can look forward to bigger things now.
