White Lotus 4
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Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Wasn’t Laura Dern the voice of Michael Imperioli’s character’s wife (over the phone) in Season 2? |
Anonymous
| CNN says it’s definitely Laura Dern taking the role in season 4. |
Anonymous
Yes!!!! |
Anonymous
Yes! Good catch. |
Anonymous
I agree. I was thrilled when she finally faded away. I wont watch with her on. |
Anonymous
| Laura Dern is a fantastic choice! |
Anonymous
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I see that Laura Dean is definitely joining the cast but not that she's for sure taking the role HBC left.
Sam Rockwell was a late add to the Season 3 cast (added after they'd started filming in Thailand, they asked Leslie Bibb if she thought he'd do it since they are married, and her already being there was probably an incentive for him to go). So not unheard of for White to create a role and cast it after filming has started. |
Anonymous
Wrong. I love her. Her autobiography was hilarious; I read it in high school. |
Anonymous
Not even if she's a villain? |
Anonymous
The people who simply won't watch with her on it don't get the show in the first place. If you don't have the friction of characters you dislike, or people you thought you liked doing stuff you absolutely can't approve of, the show is far less interesting. I like the idea of some polarizing actors on the show to play around with this. To a lesser degree, I think this was part of the idea behind Aubrey Plaza's casting in season 2, because she can be polarizing with audiences (some people love her indie vibes and sardonic voice, other people find this pretentious and put on), and then the storyline played with how much the audience identified with her or rejected her using the plot. There is also basically a White Lotus genre character at this point -- the entitled rich bro. Jake Lacey, Theo James, Patrick Schwarzenegger -- good looking, but in an almost too square jawed and corporate way, playing to type but then with nuance as the characters reveal they are sometimes less loathesome than the people who knee-jerk hate them. As a longtime knee-jerk hater of frat boys and finance bros, that is one of my favorite parts of the show because it challenges my assumptions in such an interesting way. In Season 1 I obviously wanted to side with the hotel manager over Jake Lacey, but I am forced to admit that Jake Lacey's character was actually correct in that entire conflict. Theo James was pretty loathesome but it's slowly revealed that he's just more up front about his depravity and his wife and the couple positioned as his foil are perhaps just as bad but with the pretense of being better. And Patrick Schwarzenegger had perhaps the worst personality of the three bros and yet he was the one I ultimately found most sympathetic based on what happens to him over the course of his season. I love that Mike White took a character trope and messed around with my knee jerk reaction to him this much. So anyone who is like "I find Sandra Bernhardt grating, I won't watch" doesn't really get the show. That's the whole point! That's why she was cast, because so many people will have the instant reaction of "ugh" and then Mike White will play around with that reaction in a surprising way. |
Anonymous
| Laura dern and Mike white worked together on a show about like corporate pharma. It was on hbo like 10 years ago and it was fantastic!!!! |
Anonymous
Horrible choice. HBC would have been epic. Laura Dern is overrated on every level there is. Talentless Nepo baby. |
Anonymous
Enlightened. It wasn't really about corporate pharma (though featured a pharma company). It was more about Dern's character, who had been a really sel-centered jerk but then goes to rehab in Hawaii and becomes "enlightened" and what that means when she comes back to her life. She's still self centered and deeply imperfect, but trying to do something more elevated with her life. Her efforts are generally bad and useless (and funny). It's basically just a character study. Agree it's really good. |
Anonymous
Meh going to watch anyway |