Do you know how to control the calendar every day leading up to a requested vacation? It’s us with ”The White Lotus, ”which returns to HBO February 16th. Mike White’s Tense Limited Series moves to Thailand this season, with a (mostly) brand new role of characters seeking comfort from their daily life and at least an unexpected death.
The ensemble includes a nuclear family, group of old friends, an unlikely couple and Season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) – Among many more. Below is the role of who is who, in their own words, suggests that the dynamics and turns are coming.
The girl group
Kate (Leslie Bibb), Laurie (Carrie Coon), and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) has known each other since childhood and is grateful for a weekend alone together after too long – but Jaclyn is now a famous actress who lives a life that her friends can never understand, and finance the journey for all three of them.
“Everything goes the white lotus Way, ”Monaghan told IndieWire. “It deviates quickly.”
Bibb said that even if Jaclyn pays for the trip, she thinks it was Kate’s idea as a way to regain her youth: “” Hello, maybe we make Cancun, 40 -number style! “
“Kate is a bit of a perfectionist and desperately after this trip, desperate to be seen by these two women,” she said. “She gets a lot of self -esteem from her eyes. I feel that she constantly looks to have some status – even though she has it at home, I think the status she wants is with these women. It is very important for her for this friendship circle to do so through this journey. “
Coon was quick to cut to the heart of Laurie, “a New York -based business lawyer who did not receive a promotion, who fails as a mother, and whose marriage falls apart, and she does not tell her friends about any of it. And an alcoholic. “
What can go wrong?
Ratliff family
Ratliffs is a family of five from North Carolina, in Thailand while Middle Sibling Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) Interviews A local wellness guru for its dissertation. The trip forces Father Timothy (Jason Isaacs) and son Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) away from their beloved finance jobs, but the rest of their family welcomes the break.
“I think I gathered with a lot of money, very old money,” said Parker Posey, who plays Modern Victoria. “She has been spoiled, protected. She is also an outsider. I think she is eccentric and has any problems. I don’t think she is balanced.”
It extends to her three children, who have their own individual tensions and secrets.
“Piper is very smart, a deep thinker, and has this, really beautiful quiet strength that I really admire about her,” Hook said. “She’s an applicant and it feels good.”
Sam Nivola, who plays youngest siblings Sam, described the 18-year-old as “a really scared, lonely, insecure children, who are just looking for support and love and care from anyone who will give it to him, and in any way they Want to give it to him. “
It includes both his brother and sister, with different results …
Rick and Chelsea
Would it be a white Lotus holiday without a crushing couple? Rick (Walton Goggins) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) are in a serious relationship, the type where arguments do not seem to disappear them but they still have secrets.
“Rick, in my own words, he is a lot like Jimmy Fallon,” Goggins said. “He has a great personality, always jokes around, a bit like Danny McBride – no, he is a worried man. He is a person who has driven from his past for a very long time. He is angry and he is bitter around the world around him and the life he lived. He is on the other side of an experience that I think we all have at some point in our live : ‘How did I get here?’ And who is responsible for where I am? ‘
“Chelsea don’t really know why she’s on White Lotus,” Wood told IndieWire. “She finds out as the show continues. And she is not really a typical white lotus guest – she is a bit of a malpractice. She is just there on the ride and it is just a kind of mystery for her, which is quite nice because it is also a mystery to the audience. “
The White Lotus family
Finally, there is MOOK, described by Blackpinks Lalisa Manobal as “A Cute Girl” who has a “sweet relationship” with Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong). Both work on White Lotus and are mostly removed from guest drama – at least for now.
“He is a very friendly, lovable, happy happy guy,” Thapthimthong said, along with the fact that Gaitok’s “main purpose” this season is to educate Mook’s attention.
But if there is a person who has the audience’s focus from the beginning, it is Belinda, on a mission to expand their wellness knowledge and move their career forward – without a rich benefactor.
“She was injured so bad season 1, so I think she was just trying to process that grief,” Rothwell told IndieWire. “When you dare to tell someone your dreams that are really vulnerable, as it is ass-out vulnerable, and she did it with a complete stranger and got her hopes dashed. How do you dream again after that? How do you trust again after that? So I think she went on a little healing trip. ”
“The White Lotus” premieres on Sunday 16 February at 21 HBO.
