Which was exhibited by last week’s section, which contained Ratliff Brothers (Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola) gets a little too intimate with each other, Mike White has never been afraid of Go there with the “The white lotus. “But speaking in A new interview with Harper’s Bazaarone of the current stars in the show, Carrie CoonShared that some of her character’s backstory was cut as a result of the current political climate in America and around the world.
“It was a bit more context for her home life. You originally got that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans and going past them/them,” Coon said. “You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggles to use the pronouns, struggle with the language, which was all interesting.”
Coon explained that it was a “short scene” but it gave context to her conflict with Friend Kate (Leslie Bibb) who revealed herself to be a Trump followers section 3 of this season. Although the season was written before the election, when Trump won, White realized that it would be too large objects to handle in just one reference moment.
“Considering how the Trump administration has been weapons the cultural war against transgender people even more since then,” Coon said, “when the time came to reduce the section, Mike felt that the scene was so small and the topic was so large that it was not the right way to get involved in that conversation.”
This may seem like a cop-out and a way to avoid getting stuck in the current attack on the trans community, but Coon does not believe that the choice has anything to do with White’s willingness to get involved in important dialogues.
“His father wrote a very influential book about what it was like to come out as a gay man himself in the Evangelical Church as an adult, which many young men have read and was a very meaningful text for them in their own trips,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “So Mike is not away from challenging cultural conversationsAnd I really appreciate it about his work. “
“The White Lotus” will be broadcast Sunday nights at 21 o’clock at HBO and streams at max at the same time.
