EXCLUSIVE: Mike White’s The White Lotus shouldn’t be losing any time ramping up for Season 3. On Nov. 9, the very day the SAG-AFTRA strike ended at 12:01 AM, the Emmy-winning HBO anthology sequence began casting for its upcoming third installment by releasing an inventory of the brand new characters. Filming is tentatively slated to start in early February in Thailand, sources stated.
Once once more, The White Lotus will characteristic a sprawling, multi-generational solid. Thirteen roles are at present casting, 9 of them sequence regulars — ranging in ages between 18-80s — with a patriarch, a company government, an actress, a few moms, a misfit and a yogi among the many bunch, I hear.
Last week, The White Lotus creator Mike White offered a standing replace on Season 3, which is predicted to debut in 2025, sharing his hope to start out filming “at the beginning of the year.”
“I’m seriously finishing scripts,” White stated on the time of the brand new installment whose writing was interrupted by the work stoppage.
“It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus,” White stated of Season 3. “It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, so at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing.”
It is unclear whether or not which means the variety of episodes would enhance once more after going up from 6 in Season 1 to 7 in Season 2.
Natasha Rothwell and Jennifer Coolidge in Season 1 of ‘The White Lotus’
Season 1”s Natasha Rothwell is the one solid member confirmed thus far for the third installment; she’s going to reprise her position as Belinda within the Thailand-set season, which is able to comply with these which are vacationing at a Wellness Spa.
Season 1’s Connie Britton advised Deadline final yr that she has had conversations with White about presumably returning for Season 3.
Originally focused for 2024, Season 3 is “likely moving into 2025” as a result of strikes, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max, stated earlier this month.
Getting the brand new seasons of The White Lotus, The Last Of Us and Euphoria — all delayed by the work stoppage – up and working has been a serious precedence for HBO.
Following the Season 2 finale of The White Lotus final December, White stated that Season 3 will likely be exploring “death in Eastern religion and spirituality.”
Said HBO’s head of drama Francesca Orsi in May, “It’s an exploration about spirituality versus the ego. And it’s set against the Eastern religion.”