Visitors of The White Lotus in Thailand are already starting to verify in.
Season 3 of the beloved anthology sequence, created by Mike White, debuted its first teaser on Monday. This time, “The White Lotus” travels to Thailand for an installment that options 13 forged members, together with Season 1 returning star Natasha Rothwell.
Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, and Jason Isaacs are among the many buzzy forged members who might be twisted up in homicide, thriller, and deceit. “The White Lotus” will debut in 2025.
Thailand is a good setting for “The White Lotus” — with even higher financial savings. Japanese producer Georgina Pope mentioned on the Tokyo Movie Competition that White was wooed by a $4.4 million tax rebate to movie in Thailand, not Japan.
“The White Lotus” creator White beforehand teased to Leisure Weekly that the season might be a “supersized ‘White Lotus.’ It’s going to be longer, larger, crazier. I don’t know what folks will suppose, however I’m tremendous excited, so at the very least for my very own barometer, that’s a very good factor.”
The third installment will deal with “dying and Japanese faith and spirituality,” as White beforehand shared throughout a post-finale Season 2 featurette. “The primary season form of highlighted cash, after which the second season is intercourse,” White mentioned. “I feel the third season can be perhaps a satirical and humorous have a look at dying and Japanese faith and spirituality. It feels prefer it could possibly be a wealthy tapestry to do one other spherical at White Lotus.”
Season 3 forged member Coon advised Vainness Truthful that the installment is much more “about dying” than the blood-tinged blowout that was Season 2.
“I feel he’s enjoying with some actually attention-grabbing dynamics,” Coon mentioned of White’s imaginative and prescient for the third season. “I feel it’s one thing he would proceed to do in the event that they let him, as a result of I feel he want to get larger and extra worldwide and put collectively weirder teams of individuals — that’s what he’s enthusiastic about,” she mentioned. “And I feel that’s essential on this world, to see folks banging up towards one another on this manner. After all, he’s satirizing wealthy white folks, and he’s doing it very properly. He’s actually chatting with individuals who should be spoken to in a extremely attention-grabbing manner. He had a season about cash; he had a season about intercourse. And that is his season about dying.”
And Coon is only one key a part of the intricate ensemble forged. “The White Lotus” casting director Meredith Tucker advised IndieWire in August 2023 that she and White “make lists” of dream casting.
“However it’s not like he’s like, ‘Okay, let’s make a proposal to this particular person, this particular person, this particular person,’” Tucker mentioned. “Even with the name-ier folks he does like to speak it by means of, and he very a lot likes everybody to learn. Clearly some persons are not going to learn, however some individuals who usually wouldn’t learn are prepared to learn as a result of they need to be a part of it, and it is extremely essential to him. He likes to not simply see the actors, he additionally likes to listen to the dialogue. It helps him as a author as properly, in order that’s been an essential a part of the method and can proceed to be. I don’t suppose the M.O. goes to alter in any respect. Because the seasons progress, it’s nonetheless going to be the identical — folks studying, perhaps a pair folks getting straight gives. I at all times like to offer new folks alternatives, individuals who aren’t as well-known.”
“The White Lotus” Season 3 premieres February 16 on Max. Take a look at the teaser beneath.