The New Season of «The White Lotus» just welcomed new faces, and Maria Shriver is one proud mama because of it.
Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola and Aimee Lou Wood is winning the Emmy-winning drama punishment for its three weeks, TODAY.com confirms Jan. 17.
Sharing an announcement on Instagram, the former TODAY emplada congratulated her son, Schwarzenegger, for being cast in one of her “favorite shows of all time.”
“Patrick, Patrick, Patrick! I’m so proud of you!” Shriver begins her post, naming Schwarzenegger’s recent achievements like getting engaged and recently becoming the face of Emporio Armani. «Wow!!! All that hard work and determination is really paying off.”
After encouraging him to promote our brands and work, Shriver continued, “I can’t wait to visit you on set (am I allowed to visit you on set?) and can’t wait to get all the spoilers from you ( you will tell me, right? I am your mother after all!) Wow, wow, wow! See you at the White Lotus!”
Shriver then added the hashtag, “#proudmomalert.”
Earlier this month, HBO announced that Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb and Carrie Coon were also part of the Season Three cast, as well as Natasha Rothwell, who played spa manager Belinda Lindsey in Season.
Season Two of the hit series had viewers gasping, theorizing, dissecting fashion and dreaming of Sicily, all while trying to solve which character winds up dead.
Creator Mike White told Entertainment Weekly in November, nearly a year after the Season Two finale of “The White Lotus” aired, that viewers can expect Season Three to be even “crazier.”
«It’s going to be a supersized ‘White Lotus,'» White said. «It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing. … I’m super excited about the containment of the house.”
Rothwell backed up the hype, revealing during an interview with Vanity Fair in December, that she «gasped» while reading the scripts.
«I gasped out loud a minimum of five times, and this was just me reading them,» Rothwell said. «The scripts are testaments to Mike’s skill and ability to tell the most smart and entertaining stories. I mean, everything that he does is like a lesson to me an actor and performer. And as a writer myself, I take folks on a journey. Everyone needs to buckle up, because it’s going to get real!”
«The White Lotus» will first award in July 2021 and has multiple Emmys, including one for outstanding limited series.
Here’s everything we know about «The White Lotus» Season Three.
Who will be in the cast of Season Three of ‘The White Lotus’?
The show’s third season will feature both Hollywood vets and newcomers.
This month, the legendary actors have been named members of the Season Three cast: Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Tayme Thapthimthong, Carrie Coon, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine and Aimee Lou Wood.
Deadline reported in Jan. 22 that Francesca Corney, Nicholas Duvernay and Arnas Fedaravičius had also joined the cast.
TODAY.com confirmed in April 2023 that Natasha Rothwell will also return.
Fans of the investigation that its cast changes every season — with the exception of Jennifer Coolidge, who played wealthy and somewhat stunted Tanya McQuoid, and Jon Gries, who played Tanya’s husband, Greg Hunt, in Season One and
After Tanya’s stunning demise, it seemed unlikely Coolidge would return, although she said during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series that she wished creator White isn’t given with Greg’s character arc.
«My hope for (co-star) Jon (Gries) is that he is not finished with Greg,» Coolidge said. «I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don’t know, end up in a meat-grinding machine.”
In her speech after winning the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama series for her performance as Tanya, Coolidge said White called her character “definitely dead.”
In the final reference of the show, Coolidge also thanked “all the evil gays” for her Emmy win.
Rothwell’s return as Belinda continues the anthology series’ subtle pattern of bringing back one familiar face amid all-new cast each season.
White had told Entertainment Weekly he was open to cast members returning for Season Three — and beyond.
«It would be easy to just be a full-on anthology, but I think it’s more fun to have little threads through the show,» said White. «If the show goes on for a couple of beds, he wants fun to have all-star season.»
Where will Season Three take place?
Certain things about «The White Lotus» will not be expected for use — enter the format. All the holidays take place in different luxury resorts of Lotus Located located the world, and begins with the discovery of dead body.
When Meghann Fahy’s character, Daphne, mentioned in the Season Two finale that she wanted to vacation in the Maldives, fans speculated that the show would be set in the island nation next.
The first season was in Hawaii; the second, Sicily. And the third will be filmed in Thailand, as announced Jan. 5.
The show’s first two seasons were shot at Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Italy. Production on Season Three will begin in February in and around Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok «and will follow a new group of guests at another White Lotus property,» HBO said.
The Thailand news eats after White teased a continental change for the third season.
«The first year of skin highlighted money, and the second week is sex,» White said in interview s HBO, which aired well after the Season Two finale. «I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”
White also hinted at pivoting to a country in Asia during a network carpet interview with Deadline in October 2022.
«It’s just back to our network episode, in addition to considering that the following race», White said. «But if we did, I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent. We did Europe. Maybe Asia … would be fun.”
When will Season Three premiere?
The new season likely won’t be premiering until 2025.
HBO and Max chairman/CEO Casey Bloys told reporters at press event in Nov. 2 that the writers and actors strikes impacted production schedules, including “The White Lotus.”
«‘White Lotus’ Season Three has probably been in play for 2024, it’s 2025,» Bloys said, according to Variety.
With a year until the next season, viewers can always rewatch Seasons One and Two on Max.
The plot is not able to do — but this part will stay
There is not much information that moves to its third season, until White’s teaser about “satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality.”
White told Entertainment Weekly in September 2022 that he might return to his original idea he’d pitched for Season Two, which had to do with politics and power.
«I might still do it down the road maybe, if they give us a third season,» White said.
After visiting Sicily, White decided to make a plot to fit the «vibe» of the country.
«Then the mythology of Sicily, in the eyes of Americans, is the archetypal sexual politics and role play that is associated with, as in, opera and the mafia and romantic Italy. I felt like it should be more focused on men and women and relationships and adultery and has an operatic feel to it, so I pivoted,” White said.
