In November 2022, HBO announced a third season for the series White lotuswhich will bring a new part of the anthology series created by Mike White to the screens.
The first installment, which premiered in July 2021 and is set in Hawaii, was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards and won 10 leading awards, including Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology. The second season, set in Sicily, premiered on October 30, 2022 and won five Emmy Awards, including a repeat for Jennifer Coolidge.
When will White lotus Season 3 premiere?
Originally scheduled to premiere in 2024, HBO president Casey Bloys said season three will likely arrive in 2025, with the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes halting production delayed until mid-2023. White lotuswhich will be filmed in Thailand after setting the events in Hawaii for the first season and Sicily for the second season, and is now scheduled to begin filming in and around Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok in February 2024.
Who’s in the cast?
The cast is set for season three with season one’s standout Natasha Rothwell returning along with newcomers Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul, Time Thapthithong, Christian Friedel, Morgana O’Reilly, Leek Patravadi, Shalini Pieris, Walton Goggins, Amy Lou Wood, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Katherine Hawke, Sam Nivola, Francesca Corney, Nicolas DuVernay and Arnas Vidaravicius.
Miloš Pekovic, who was cast in the new season in what is believed to be a small recurring role of a Russian named Valentin, a flirtatious yogi and life-improvement guru at the White Lotus Hotel, exited the role on February 2. This came a month after the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry criticized HBO over the selection of the Serbian-Russian actor, whom the ministry said supports Russia in the war against Ukraine.
Other than Rothwell, the only other cast member to have appeared in more than one season so far is Jennifer Coolidge, who has won back-to-back Emmy Awards for Supporting Actress for her role as Tanya McQuaid. The character did not survive the waters of the Mediterranean at the end of the second season.
What do we know about the plot of season three?
Other than the events centered at another resort at White Lotus Resort… not much. But we do know that the multi-generational group involved in this season includes a patriarch, a corporate executive, an actress, a couple of moms including a country club wife, a misfit, and a yogi.
White promised it would be “big White lotus,” Says Electronic warfare“, “It’s going to be longer, bigger and crazier. I don’t know what people are going to think, but I’m very excited, so at least by my scale, that’s a good thing… I’m very excited about the content of the season.
By “longer”, this could mean more episodes. The first season consists of six episodes, while the second season consists of seven episodes.
For his part, HBO’s Bloys said his reaction to the new scripts was similar to Rothwell’s. “I think Natasha Rothwell was saying in an interview that every script she read, she was gasping out loud. “I would agree with that,” he said after the Emmys in January, adding that he plans to visit Thailand in the spring. “Mike is a really unique, unique voice.” “And I’m excited for people to see what he has in store.”
At the Sundance Film Festival in January, Megan Fahey, who played Daphne Sullivan in Season 2, said that White had an idea for a future episode involving the Sullivan family (Cameron Sullivan Fahey and Theo James) and the newly married Buttons in Season 1, played by Alexandra Daddario and Jake Lassie.
“He (Mike White) once said he’d like to do an episode with Theo, me and the couple from Season 1 — Alex and Jake; ‘The four of us on a boat,'” Fahey told Deadline. Just one episode of that, which would be kind of psychotic. But I’m down.”
How to watch the series
Like the first two seasons White lotus It airs on HBO and streams on Max, which offers plans that include ads ($9.99 per month or $99.99 per year), ad-free ($15.99 per month or $149.99 per year) and Ultimate Ad-Free ($19.99 per month or $199.99 per year). Expect the same platforms for season three.