Jennifer Coolidge and Jon Gries on Returning for 'The White Lotus' Season 2

Season 2 of The White Lotus has arrived on HBO and HBO Max, with episodes airing every Sunday evening at 9 p.m.

The second installment of the comedy-drama has a new collection of characters and a different setting, with guests making their reservations at the White Lotus hotel in Sicily.

However, there are two familiar faces from Season 1 who have returned for the new episodes of the anthology series—and fans of The White Lotus cannot wait to see what happens next.

Jennifer Coolidge is reprising her role as the wealthy but troubled Tanya McQuoid, which won her a Emmy for best supporting actress earlier this year.

In Season 1, Tanya was mourning the death of her mother and struggling with grief in Hawaii. This time round, audiences will see Tanya in a different light, but with the same chaotic energy.

Coolidge told Newsweek: "Someone like Tanya, she is hiding behind her grief and, in the first White Lotus, that was someone who had such a heavy load to carry for a very long time, regarding her mother's death.

"Sometimes you think, when you take that away, things are going great. 'I met this guy I really like, the grief … I've spread my mother's ashes, and I'm able to work through that.' Sometimes you realize that is just the tip of the iceberg to a whole new thing. I mean, people are unpredictable, and relationships are so unpredictable and the odds of a relationship working out are sometimes very slim."

Jon Gries is also back for Season 2 as Tanya's love interest, Greg. His return will be more surprising to audiences because, at the end of Season 1, Greg was seemingly dying from a mysterious illness.

Greg's return even came as a surprise to the actor who plays him. Gries told Newsweek: "I remember I had a conversation with Mike [White, the show's creator] during the first season, when we were filming, and he was like, 'You know, Tanya and Greg might have to come back for Season 2.' I said, 'How can Greg come back for Season 2?' I was playing literally that he was dying, because Mike wasn't telling me anything."

Gries suggested that his character was "gonna be dead," but White told him: "You can't tell me he's gonna be dead. You didn't write this. I wrote this."

Some months later, Gries added, "just before Christmas, he sent me a text. I was just sitting, eating in a restaurant, and it was like, 'Hey, I'm writing this. And are you available?' And I was like, 'Are you kidding? Of course, I'm available.'"

He joked: "It's an amazing feeling to come back and work with my lovely wife."

Coolidge revealed that she had to keep Greg's return a secret and pretend she was the only character coming back for Season 2.

She joked: "It looks like I was doing an injustice to Jon [Gries] because people said, 'We hear that you're the only character coming back' and I would have to be like, 'Yes, yes.' I just had to tell a lie but, of course, my husband is back and now we're into a whole new thing."

In Season 1, the seemingly unremarkable Greg and the fabulously spoiled Tanya fell head-over-heels in love at the White Lotus resort in Hawaii and when audiences see them in Season 2, they are married.

The couple go on a romantic trip to Sicily, but cracks are beginning to show in their relationship.

In Season 2, it is also revealed that Greg miraculously survived after Tanya paid for his treatment. As a result, he has a new lease of life, which does not always bode well for their marriage.

Coolidge said: "I think his near-death experience maybe humbled him for half a second, but now he's feeling good. He's a lot of work. That's the thing, when you sign up for someone, sometimes you have no idea what you're getting into, some people are just…"

She teased: "You think that they are only in love with you … but sometimes people are complicated and, you know, they can be many things."

Gries said: "It all depends on the expectations because everybody loves people. They love them in different ways."

The White Lotus airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.