Mike White, the creator of The White Lotus, teases that the upcoming season 3 can be a lot darker than the others.
The White Lotus season 3 will debut on HBO in simply two weeks, and creator Mike White has teased that the brand new season can be “much, much darker” than the others.
“I do feel like the other seasons were a rehearsal for this one,” White informed TIME. “There’s stuff that I’ve never directed before.” The new season is ready at an unique Thai resort and follows the exploits of varied friends and workers over the course of every week. “They’re all in some kind of hurt,” White mentioned of the brand new friends. “Like, they’re all useless, however they don’t realize it…as a result of it’s coping with these existential tropes of going through into the nothingness of self [and] Buddhist themes which have life and loss of life and moral features, [the season] simply acquired extra heavy.“
White initially needed to shoot the third season in Japan, however HBO wasn’t certain and urged him to contemplate Thailand as an alternative. White wasn’t certain, however after being hospitalized with extreme bronchitis whereas scouting areas, he got here up with the story. “They put me on a nebulizer. I didn’t sleep for like two nights, and by the next morning I was like, ‘I think I have the plot,’” he mentioned. “The season is just about what occurred that evening…. I felt like I had the ending. And so I used to be like, ‘I guess we’re capturing in Thailand.’“
Just like the primary two seasons, the third season options an all-star forged which incorporates Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Aimee Lou Wood. Additional forged contains Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Scott Glenn, Dom Hetrakul, Julian Kostov, Charlotte Le Bon, Morgana O’Reilly, and Shalini Peiris. As far as returning forged members, the one one again this time round is Natasha Rothwell, who performed spa supervisor Belinda Lindsey within the first season.
The third season of The White Lotus will encompass eight episodes, making it the most important season up to now. “It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus,” mentioned White final yr. “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. There’s no place I’d rather work than HBO and there’s no people I’d rather partner with than Casey Bloys, Francesca Orsi, Nora Skinner and their incredible team. I feel so lucky to get this opportunity again and am excited to reunite with my amazingly talented collaborators on The White Lotus.”
The White Lotus season 3 will debut on February sixteenth.