One among TV’s glitziest and awe-inspiring thriller dramas is as soon as once more upon us, with followers eagerly awaiting HBO’s Season 3 premiere of The White Lotus, which critics had differing ideas about. Whereas we doubtless received’t see a lot of unanswered Season 2 questions getting ironed out, nor any decision for Portia’s storyline, we’ll fortunately reconnect with Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda and study what she’s been as much as.
No clue if the masseuse will study Season 2’s huge loss of life, however Rothwell herself opened up about studying of Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya being the second chapter’s key sufferer. And it could shock nobody to study that the actress was certainly gobsmacked to see her greatest Season 1 display accomplice get killed off, and that she needed to study it together with everybody else on this planet. Showing on In the present day, Rothwell confirmed she was an avid watcher, and stated:
I used to be in all probability essentially the most rabid fan of Season 2. (I) keep in mind the second Jennifer died. I screamed and, like, threw my cellphone throughout the room, grabbed my cellphone, texted Jennifer. I’m like, ‘Holy … what?’
You gotta love that the actress’ first response was to throw her cellphone, the very system she instantly wanted to make use of to react to what she’d simply seen on her TV. And naturally her go-to transfer was to ship a message to her former co-star alluding to her shock and disbelief. Hopefully not by way of a smashed display, in fact.
When Jennifer Coolidge responded, she addressed the truth that despite the fact that Rothwell was an enormous a part of Season 1 and was doubtless aware about most of what creator Mike White had in thoughts for the characters, her absence in Season 2 meant she was simply as out of the loop as the common viewer. As she put it:
After which, yeah, she was similar to, ‘I couldn’t let you know.’
Contemplating she was personally requested by White to reprise her beloved Season 1 function within the newest episodes, Natasha Rothwell is clearly in on the secrets and techniques awaiting audiences as Season 3 rolls alongside. With Tanya not within the image, a brand new corpse is predicted to pop up someplace on the Thailand resort, and Rothwell’s co-star Leslie Bibb teased that it will not play out the identical method followers may esxpect. In keeping with Bibb:
Even the way in which it begins will not be like the way in which a regular White Lotus begins. Sure, right here’s a loss of life, however it’s one thing … it ain’t only a physique bag.
Fingers crossed this newest thriller physique has some form of direct ties to the previous two seasons, ideally in ways in which join Jon Gries’ Greg to Tanya’s loss of life. We undoubtedly want closure there, particularly after Jennifer Coolidge seemingly revealed Greg’s devious actions tied again to Season 1, which doubtlessly made him this sequence’ greatest connective tissue.
The White Lotus Season 3 arrives on HBO on Sunday, February 16, at 9:00 p.m. ET, and shall be streaming with a Max subscription.