The White Lotus may have the third season scheduled for release in 2025, since Mike White still does not have the new episodes in production, but it is time to get down to business and start hiring actors. We could have a first guest. And, according to American journalist Jeff Sneider, Carrie Coon is negotiating her incorporation into the hotel franchise.
The details of the role she would play are unknown but, if her signing is confirmed, it would involve the presence of the actress in two active HBO series. Currently, the platform’s subscribers know her as Bertha Russell from The Gilded Age, a wealthy woman who uses the new fortune accumulated by her husband to climb the high society of New York, very conservative when it comes to including a family of humble origins in their circles.
The Golden Age is renewed for a third season. But, taking into account that it was renewed in December and that Julian Fellowes a priori still has to write the new scripts, HBO has time to plan the filming so that they do not overlap. The commitment would also be sporadic: The White Lotus is an anthology series that barely repeats cast members from one season to the next.
Jennifer Coolidge was the only actress from the first season who was in the second and, for the third, Natasha Rothwell is expected to return as Belinda Lindsey, the masseuse at the White Lotus hotel in Maui who was precisely harmed by her relationship with the client played by Coolidge.
Regarding the subject, Mike White has already explained where the shots will go. If the first season spoke about privilege in a direct way, based on the dynamics between guests and guests, and the second had fun with “sexual politics” based on a sophisticated sitcom, the third will address death based on Eastern spirituality.
At first, the creator planned to set the story in Japan, going so far as to look for locations, but he finally opted for Thailand because it was a cheaper place to film and it fell within the budget allocated by HBO to The White Lotus.
