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EXCLUSIVE: Mike White’s The White Lotus is just not 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 collection started casting for its upcoming third installment by releasing a listing of latest characters. Filming is tentatively slated to start in early February in Thailand, sources stated.
As soon as once more, The White Lotus will function a sprawling, multi-generational solid. 13 roles are presently casting, 9 of them collection regulars — ranging in ages between 18-80s — with a patriarch, a company govt, an actress, a few moms, a misfit and a yogi among the many bunch, I hear.
Final week, The White Lotus creator Mike White supplied a standing replace on Season 3, which is predicted to debut in 2025, sharing his hope to begin filming “initially of the yr.”
“I am critically ending scripts,” White stated on the time of the brand new installment whose writing was interrupted by the work stoppage.
“It should be a supersized White Lotus,” White stated of Season 3. “It should be longer, greater, crazier. I do not know what folks will suppose, however I’m tremendous excited, so a minimum of for my very own barometer, that is factor.”
It’s unclear whether or not because of this the variety of episodes would improve 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 to date for the third installment; she is going to reprise her function as Belinda within the Thailand-set season, which can observe those that are vacationing at a Wellness Spa.
Season 1’s Connie Britton instructed Deadline final yr that she has had conversations with White about presumably returning for Season 3.
Initially focused for 2024, Season 3 is “doubtless shifting into 2025” because of the strikes, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max, stated earlier this month.
Getting the brand new seasons of The White Lotus, The Final 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 “loss of life in Jap faith and spirituality.”
Stated HBO’s head of drama Francesca Orsi in Might, “It is an exploration about spirituality versus the ego. And it is set in opposition to the Jap faith.”
