Jennifer Coolidge's advice to cure self-doubt: Watch 'terrible' stuff

• Jennifer Coolidge and "The White Lotus" Creator Mike White spoke at the Vivid Sydney festival.
• The actress gave her advice for curing self-doubt: "Go to really bad stuff."

Jennifer Coolidge shared her advice to cure self-doubt: Watch other people who are bad at the thing you want to do.

She and "The White Lotus" Creator Mike White spoke at the Vivid Sydney festival on June 10.

"Well I'm going to get a lot of hell for saying this — I just want to put it out there — I know I am. This is going to be something that I might regret saying," she said, according to a TikTok video of the event. "I think one of the best things to cure self-doubt is just to go to really bad stuff."

Laughter erupted from the audience, which Variety reported was a sold-out crowd of 9,000 people.

"I'm talking about plays you hear about that are terrible — go to them," Coolidge continued. "There's shows on television that are terrible — watch them."

She said she got the idea by going to a "terrible production of 'Oliver.'"

"I was in college and I just hated myself and I was so full of self-doubt," Coolidge said.

She then mimicked the actors saying "Oliver" in a high-pitched voice with an indiscernible accent and said "everyone" was bad in the show.

"I felt like the seas had parted. I felt like I had a chance in this world," Coolidge said, as the crowd clapped and cheered.

"Not the good stuff — the good stuff is just intimidating," she recommended against watching. "And you're like, 'How could I ever fucking do that?'"

Coolidge has been acting in TV and movies since the 1990s and won a Golden Globe for playing Tanya in "The White Lotus."

In her acceptance speech, she reflected on how she strung together smaller jobs over the years and said White gave her hope with the role and "a new beginning."