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Since her breakout position in Season 3 of HBO\u2019s hit dramedy White Lotus<\/em>, performing<\/a> provides have been pouring in for Charlotte Le Bon.<\/p>\n

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But for now, the Montreal native is simply not .<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking films is my main focus more than acting, to be honest,\u201d Le Bon stated throughout a sit-down interview in Toronto Thursday.<\/p>\n

Le Bon not too long ago returned from the Cannes Film Festival, the place she held conferences in the hunt for a financing accomplice for her sophomore function \u2014 a still-untitled Montreal-shot drama exploring themes of loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s autobiographique,\u201d says the bilingual actor, reluctant to disclose an excessive amount of.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very, very personal movie and I think the goal is to try to make a very light-hearted movie on grief. It\u2019s a challenge, but that\u2019s what I\u2019m aiming for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Montreal-based Le Bon was on the town for Bell Media\u2019s 2025-26 programming showcase, the place Etalk hosts interviewed her throughout a splashy occasion for media consumers concerning the final season of The White Lotus<\/em>, which streams on Crave.<\/p>\n

In Mike White\u2019s eat-the-rich anthology sequence she performs Chloe, a socially savvy French-Canadian expat dwelling in Thailand together with her a lot older boyfriend, and the sequence\u2019 foremost antagonist, Greg, who now goes by \u201cGary.\u201d She\u2019s seemingly unaware of Greg\u2019s historical past: in Season 2, he pulled off a plot to homicide his spouse Tanya, performed by Jennifer Coolidge, as a way to inherit her wealth.<\/p>\n

Le Bon says she was able to take a hiatus from performing when she was supplied the White Lotus<\/em> position. Though she\u2019d constructed a profitable profession \u2014 with roles reverse Joseph Gordon-Levitt within the 2015 biographical drama The Walk<\/em> and Christian Bale within the 2016 struggle epic The Promise<\/em> \u2014 her ardour had shifted to working behind the digital camera. Her 2023 horror-romance Falcon Lake<\/em>, which she directed and co-wrote, premiered at Cannes to robust important acclaim.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was thinking about taking a break from acting because I was like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know if I still like it.\u2019 I was just asking myself some questions about it\u2026 I sometimes played characters that were not really inspiring for me for some reason,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd then White Lotus<\/em> arrived and I was like, \u2018There\u2019s no way I can not do this. It\u2019s just an amazing opportunity\u2019\u2026 Between the moment where I sent the self-tape and the moment I was in the plane flying to Thailand, there were probably like 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Le Bon says the expertise of being a part of such a pop-culture juggernaut was onerous to wrap her head round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of overwhelming when you\u2019re taking part in such an important thing in culture. Even when it started to come out, when I started to see memes on it on social media, it was really exciting,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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