Tanya McQuoid may be gone, but she’s not forgotten.
FellowWhite LotusstarAubrey Plazawas also nominated in the category, as wereClaire Danes(Fleishman Is in Trouble),Daisy Edgar-Jones(Under the Banner of Heaven) andNiecy Nash(Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story).
Upon accepting her award, Coolidge — who wore a custom, off-the-shoulderDolce & Gabbanagown at the event — got emotional while delivering her speech as she thankedRyan Murphywho she said was among five people who kept her going in the industry for 20 years with these “little jobs.”
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Those gigs she said “would just be enough until the next one, the next one,” before noting “Michael Patrick King you kept me going for a long time.”
“Then there would be Reese [Witherspoon], you got meLegally Blondethen the Weiss brothers kept me going with like fiveAmerican Pies, some of these things would go you know five different episodes or sequels ofAmerican Pie. I milked that to gold. I mean I’ll still go for six or seven, whatever they want,” she said.
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After thanking her agents, she proceeded to express her gratitude forWhite LotuscreatorMike Whiteand praised him for his work, which eventually brought him to tears.
“I just want to say Mike White you gave me hope, even though this is the end because you did kill me off but it doesn’t matter because you really changed my life in a million different ways — my neighbors aren’t being mean to me, things like that — and none of those people, I was never invited to one party on my hill and now everyone’s inviting me!” she said.
“It’s to you Mike White, this is something all of you,” Coolidge shared before continuing to gush over the director and writer. “If you don’t know Mike White, this is something you should know: he’s worried about the world, he’s worried about people, you’re worried about animals. He really is one of the greatest people I’ve ever met, he gives me so much excitement to be, you make people want to live longer and I didn’t.”
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Concluding her victory remarks, she added, “So I just want to say Mike White BLEEP I love you and I just want to say this has been a fun night. Thank you. Thank you.”
Her speech also received huge applause and a standing ovation from the audience in attendance at the event held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The 60-year-old actress — who also won her first primetime Emmy this past September for her role as Tanya — almost passed on the job entirely because she didn’t feel like she was in “fighting shape” aftergaining weight during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.
Luckily, a good friend of Coolidge’s talked her into taking the role anyway.
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“That girlfriend just gave me this [pep talk and said], ‘You are out of your mind. Just go, just f—ing go do it. Are you ever going to be in shape?'” Coolidge recalled their conversation.
“For once in my life, I listened. Usually, I have my own thing in my head but I listened,” she said.
After winning the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or movie, Coolidge called her victory “a once-in-a-lifetime thing” and danced her way off stage as “Hit the Road Jack” played in the background.
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