The supervisor of the true 'White Lotus' lodge in Sicily says Jennifer Coolidge is precisely like her character from the present

• Lorenzo Maraviglia is the supervisor of the true “White Lotus” lodge in Taormina, Sicily.
• Maraviglia instructed Insider he struck up friendships with the solid and crew throughout filming.
• He mentioned Jennifer Coolidge is precisely the identical as her character, Tanya, in actual life.

There are numerous components of “The White Lotus” which are fictional: the affairs, homicide plots, and the drama that the characters expertise throughout their luxurious trip in Sicily. 

However one factor that continues to be true to life is Jennifer Coolidge’s character, Tanya McQuoid, in line with Lorenzo Maraviglia, the supervisor of San Domenico Palace, a 4 Seasons Lodge, in Taormina the place the second season was filmed.

Coolidge and her costars lived and filmed on the five-star, luxurious resort for a number of months in 2022. A few weeks after my go to to the lodge in April 2023, I met with Maraviglia over Zoom to speak about his expertise working there whereas the collection was being filmed. He mentioned he struck up a friendship with lots of the solid and crew, together with Coolidge.

“Jennifer Coolidge, the star of the present, is in actual life the precise character you see on TV,” Maraviglia mentioned, referencing the obliviousness of Tanya’s character that aided a collection of unlucky occasions on the finish of the second season.

All through the season, Tanya typically believed the perfect in individuals and didn’t see when she was being betrayed by her new group of mates and her husband, Greg. 

Talking to Selection in December, Coolidge mentioned that the present’s creator, Mike White, was impressed by her “obliviousness” in actual life and ended up making it “a Tanya factor.”

“Mike White thinks it’s extremely humorous that I can deal with huge issues, however slightly factor might be my demise. Like, my technical inabilities with my cellphone or one thing will maintain me from carrying out one thing huge,” Coolidge mentioned.

“These small issues throw me off. It was so according to who I’m — I even heard Mike say that to any person,” she added. 

Maraviglia went on to say that he was impressed with Coolidge’s kindness, as she typically stayed late after capturing to speak with the lodge workers. 

“I’ve to say, the one factor I liked essentially the most about her is that she’s extraordinarily human. She would deal with a waiter the identical means she would deal with the producer,” he mentioned. 

From Sicily to Hollywood

Maraviglia mentioned he additionally turned good mates with the present’s creator, Mike White, and that he was invited to the Hollywood premiere of “The White Lotus” season two in October.

“It was unimaginable to be invited, to signify the lodge. It was a blue carpet, not a purple carpet, but it surely was unimaginable,” he mentioned.

I wasn’t stunned within the slightest that Maraviglia was requested to signify the lodge. Having seen it up shut and on display screen, it is clear San Domenico Palace needs to be seen as a personality of its personal, I instructed him. 

“No marvel you felt like that, as a result of all the things you see on the present is similar as actual life,” Maraviglia mentioned, including that small particulars, just like the fictional lodge workers’s uniform, have been supplied by the lodge. He mentioned that among the actual lodge workers have been allowed to be extras in some scenes. 

Maraviglia mentioned his invitation to the premiere “reveals how grateful they have been for the vacation spot and the lodge.”

“And it reveals how sturdy that hyperlink was,” he added.

Representatives for HBO didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.