“She thinks big,” says Sabrina Impacciatore of her delightfully catty character in The Paper, in which the Italian actress plays Esmeralda Grand, managing editor of the Toledo Truth Teller and TTT Online. Conceived as a Halloween dress-up icon, Esmerelda exists almost entirely to thwart the idealistic new editor and his dreams of keeping journalism alive. Impacciatore, however, is a gifted, full-throttle comedienne who makes sure Esmerelda is much more than a villain. Small wonder Mike White wanted her for Season 2 of The White Lotus; indeed, it’s hard to imagine the anarchy unleashed whenever she and co-star Jennifer Coolidge are in the same
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