Blackpink member Lisa has joined the forged of “The White Lotus” Season 3, Variety has realized solely.
She will likely be credited beneath her given title, Lalisa Manobal, within the third season of the hit HBO sequence. As with all castings for the third season, her position is being stored beneath wraps. “The White Lotus” is ready to start manufacturing in and round Koh Samui, Phuket, and Bangkok, Thailand, in February. Exact plot particulars are being stored beneath wraps other than the actual fact it can comply with a brand new group of visitors at a White Lotus resort property.
The expansive ensemble forged already contains: Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Tayme Thapthimthong, Christian Friedel, Julian Kostov, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Francesca Corney, Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Natasha Rothwell, Walton Goggins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Aimee Lou Wood, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola.
Manobal’s position in “The White Lotus” will mark her performing debut. She is now the second member of Blackpink to seem in an HBO sequence. Jennie (credited as Jennie Ruby Jane) made her personal performing debut within the drama “The Idol,” which premiered in June 2023.
Blackpink — consisting of members Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — is without doubt one of the hottest musical teams on this planet. They launched in August 2016 with the one album “Square One” beneath YG Entertainment. Their single “Boombayah” reached primary on the Billboard World Digital Songs chart, setting the file because the most-viewed debut music video by a Korean act. They turned the highest-charting feminine Ok-Pop group on Billboard Hot 100 with “Ddu-Du Ddu Du,” peaking at quantity 55, and have been the primary Ok-Pop woman group to enter and high the Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart. The group later collaborated with artists like Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, Cardi B, and Selena Gomez.
Manobal, who just lately established her personal administration firm named Lloud Co., has damaged a number of particular person information herself. With the discharge of her solo album “Lalisa” in 2021, she was the primary feminine artist to promote 736,999 copies within the first week in South Korea. Both her singles from the album — “Lalisa” and “Money” — charted within the high ten of the Billboard Global 200, the latter turning into the longest-charting tune by a feminine Ok-Pop soloist on the US Billboard 100 and UK Singles Chart. She broke three Guinness World Records in 2023 because the Most Instagram followers for a Ok-Pop artist and the primary solo Ok-Pop winner on the for each the MTV Video Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Manobal is repped by Lloud Co.
Mike White created “The White Lotus” and serves as govt producer and director. David Bernad and Mark Kamine additionally govt produce. HBO has partnered with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to help the filming and promotion of the third installment.
“The White Lotus” proved to be a right away hit for HBO when it debuted in 2021. The first season, set in Hawaii, obtained 20 Emmy nominations and ten wins, together with finest restricted or anthology sequence. The second installment, which premiered in December 2022 and was set in Sicily, earned 23 Emmy nominations, together with finest drama sequence, finally successful 5 awards.
Laura Sirikul contributed to this story.