It’s totally uncommon that an actor will get to return to the world of Mike White’s The White Lotus, so Natasha Rothwell made essentially the most of it when she reprized her position as Belinda within the upcoming third season. Rothwell might be simply the second actor to make a sophomore look within the hit anthology sequence. Jennifer Coolidge returned as Tanya McQuoid in Season 2, and was dramatically killed off within the finale. Rothwell sat out the second season, which noticed the brand new solid members fly to Italy. However Season 3 is taking them even additional overseas to Thailand, though Rothwell nonetheless cannot reveal why.
“I’d be on set, even when it wasn’t my day capturing, simply to look at the magic unfold,” Natasha Rothwell instructed Leisure Weekly throughout a current interview. Rothwell is joined in Season 3 by sequence newcomers Jason Isaacs, Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Michelle Monaghan, and Aimee Lou Wooden, to call a number of. Full plot particulars have but to be revealed for Season 3, however Rothwell guarantees it should function all of the stunning twists and turns followers have come to like from the hit HBO sequence. She teased:
“And I’d be gagged — as if I hadn’t already learn all of the scripts! I would be like, ‘Oh, sh*t.’ I actually do suppose that this season is magic. That is the one phrase.”
Whereas the brand new characters are nonetheless a thriller, Rothwell’s Belinda is a longtime face within the White Lotus lodge chain. The primary trailer for Season 3 teased why the character moved from Hawaii (the placement of Season 1) to Thailand.
“She’s nonetheless working on the White Lotus, and she or he’s in Thailand doing type of an trade program to be taught extra concerning the wellness applications that the Thailand White Lotus presents,” Rothwell revealed. “She’s going to be a visitor for the primary time, although she’s taking lessons and it is a work journey. She’s staying on the lodge, which is one thing that she hasn’t accomplished earlier than, and so we get to see her actually dip her toe within the different facet of lifetime of the upstairs/downstairs of White Lotus.”
Natasha Rothwell Has to Stay Very Secretive About ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3
It is a good factor Rothwell is an actress, as a result of incomes a starring position in The White Lotus means protecting closely-guarded secrets and techniques from her family and friends. “The stress has been insufferable, truthfully,” she mentioned of protecting the plot secretive from her family members. “My hairdresser, the cab driver, folks have been shaking me down for info, and I am similar to, ‘I’ve signed my life away. I am unable to let you know something.'”
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The Emmy-nominated actress spoke to MovieWeb main as much as the discharge of her new movie Lake George and mentioned The White Lotus’ significance.
Season 3 of The White Lotus will premiere on HBO on February 16, 2025. Whereas plot particulars have been stored beneath wraps till the present’s premiere, the theme of the brand new season has already been revealed. Whereas Season 1 handled success, and Season 2 targeted on intercourse and love, Season 3 of The White Lotus is all about “dying,” in response to Coon.