Sarah Michelle Gellar is missing “The White Lotus” as much as the rest of us, but she has a unique memory with one of its stars that most of us definitely don’t share. On Dec. 16, Gellar posted an epic throwback photo with Jennifer Coolidge — who plays the show’s iconic antihero Tanya McQuoid — along with a fun memory. “#flashbackfriday,” she wrote. “When you are missing having a new #whitelotus episode to look forward to, but you will always have the memory of the time you went dancing all night with the legend that is @theofficialjencoolidge (complete with smeared and sweaty makeup).”
Coolidge’s time in Italy on “The White Lotus” might be over, but at the age of 61, her career only seems to be gaining more steam — she recently starred in Netflix’s “The Watcher” as realtor Karen Calhoun, and she’ll appear alongside Jennifer Lopez in “Shotgun Wedding” in January. In an interview with Ariana Grande earlier in December, Coolidge credited her appearance in the musician’s “Thank U, Next” music video for her career renaissance. “I mean, from there I got ‘Promising Young Woman,’ and this whole thing,” she told Grande, who interviewed her for Entertainment Weekly. “You were sort of the instigator. I really believe that. I think if you hadn’t put me in [‘Thank U, Next,’] and done that imitation, I don’t think I would be here where I am.”
Gellar is also reentering the onscreen world after a time away. She’s starring in “Wolf Pack,” a show from the creator of “Teen Wolf,” and also recently appeared alongside Maya Hawke in “Do Revenge.” Back in September, she told POPSUGAR that she feels comfortable returning to acting now that her kids are a bit older. “They get to an age where they’re so much more independent,” she said. “Thanks to the invention of FaceTime and all the things, you can still be connected and in a different way — and it just felt like that they were of an age where they could handle it.”