Watch: Jennifer Coolidge Talks Killing Bad Gays on 'White Lotus'

Jennifer Coolidge opened up about how fun it was for her character Tanya to gun down a band of conspiratorial gay killers on the season finale of "White Lotus" – a situation that sparked the ubiquitous meme, "These gays, they're trying to murder me!"

The Boston-born actor also had a grisly suggestion for what she'd like to see happen to Tanya's treacherous husband, Greg, should that character appear in another season of the popular comedy: "I hope there's some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don't know, end up in a meat-grinding machine."

In conversation with fellow actor Jeremy Allen White for Variety, Coolidge told the star of "The Bear" – whose character, Carmichael, is an unhappy chef at a Chicago eatery – about having waitressed for a living prior to her acting career taking off, and how hot she found "hostile, tough" chefs to be. "There were a lot of chefs in my life," Coolidge admitted.

Now her own career is cooking as never before, and gay men are uttering the iconic line that Tanya spoke in the "White Lotus" episode that featured her character's death. Coolidge related that "there was a whole group of gay men in New Orleans that went out on Mardi Gras as Tanya. Some of them were on scooters, and they all had 'These gays, they're trying to murder me.'"

"It's happened in other cities – even in Boston when I did Hasty Pudding," Coolidge added. "So it really did somehow strike a chord."

As to her beloved "White Lotus" character, Tanya was "stagnant," Coolidge said, noting that "There wasn't anything really that active about her to prepare her until her ending."

That shocking death came about when Tanya found herself maneuvered into a death trap arranged by her gold-digging husband. Aboard a private yacht on the Ionian Sea, surrounded by Greg's accomplices, and with no way out, Tanya resorted to extremes: She pulled a gun from her purse and blasted away wildly, somehow managing to kill the entire cabal of would-be assassins.

"I really did like killing them all," Coolidge told White. The fact that she was not skilled handling a gun "really helped" with the scene's sense of panic, she added.

"We had to reshoot that a bunch of times," Coolidge recalled. "'Where's the gun? The inside of the bag is black. I can't find it.' But it all felt real. When you're on a boat and you're in the middle of the ocean and there is nowhere to go, what if your castmates hate you? They could just push you. Anyone can get rid of you on a boat."

Added the in-demand actor, who has also recently starred in Netflix's "The Watcher" and in the comedy "We have a Ghost," "It's the scariest thing to be on a boat. I'm never getting on a boat again."

Tanya's demise came as an unexpected coda to her heroic stand, when she tumbled from the yacht, hit her head, and drowned. But for the actor, her graceless exit wasn't exactly a surprise. "Mike did tell me that I was going to have a horrible ending," Coolidge recounted, referring to "White Lotus" creator, writer, and director Mike White. "But he said it more like, 'I'm sorry, Jennifer, but you're going to have to die.'"

It was just as well, Coolidge mulled. "Mike was looking for a big Italian opera ending, and it was big and dramatic, so he wanted me to die for many reasons. But I also think Tanya's a lot. Maybe people would get sick of her on another season. Maybe people would be like, 'Oh, my God. Get rid of Tanya!'"

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