While Jennifer Coolidge knows how to knock a comedic performance out of the park, it’s the humanity of her characters that continues shine through. Discussing her new movie Riff Raff, now ...

In “Riff Raff,” Vincent (Ed Harris) is a retired criminal, spending Christmas at his vacation home in Maine with his second wife Sandy (Gabrielle Union) and stepson DJ (Miles J. Harvey).

“I was giddy,” Coolidge says of that moment in “Riff Raff,” a new crime comedy that also stars Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, and Pete Davidson. “So I was really doing everything I could.

Yes, Jennifer Coolidge has a pair of Emmys for her work on the first two seasons of “The White Lotus.” But an Emmy or two won’t help you when you’re face to face with Bill Murray and a gun. “I was ...