Alexandra Daddario Shares "The White Lotus" Season 2 Expectations

Alexandra Daddario is impervious that you should ne'er halt believing yourself.

The actress has starred successful hit movies similar Baywatch and Percy Jackson, arsenic good arsenic the Emmy-nominated bid The White Lotus, truthful it's astonishing to larn that she was fired aft conscionable a twelvemonth starring connected the soap opera All My Children.

But Alexandra said that being fto spell from her relation arsenic Laurie Lewis inspired her to support learning. "I wasn't a precise bully actress," she told Women's Health Sept. 7. "I could memorize my lines, but uncovering my camera, uncovering my light, adjacent learning however to locomotion naturally—it took a batch of practice. I knew thing was wrong, but I knew I could hole it. I knew that I loved what I did and that I could beryllium better."

Alexandra said she went connected to enroll successful acting courses, studying the Meisner technique, which is "a batch astir repetition." She continued, "Ultimately, the intent is to make thing that's existent nether imaginary circumstances."

And then Mike White asked her to prima successful his HBO series The White Lotus, which became a deed during the coronavirus pandemic. "I ne'er expect these things to happen," she told the magazine of the show's success. "They perpetually astonishment me. I conscionable bash what I love."

In reality, it's not all that astonishing that Alexandra has done truthful well—even if she was fired aft 1 twelvemonth on All My Children. In fact, galore stars who appeared connected the amusement person gone connected to person palmy careers. Case successful point: Amanda Seyfried, Kathy Bates, Chadwick Boseman, Melissa Fumero and much had little runs connected the show.

Not to mention, different notable alums Josh Duhamel, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Michael B. Jordan and Sarah Michelle Gellar.