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In an exclusive chat with E! News, The White Lotus stars Tom Hollander and Leo Woodall explained wherefore joining the amusement midseason was truthful overmuch fun—and wherefore they loved their country partners.
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Two caller guests person checked into The White Lotus.
Tom Hollander and Leo Woodall arrived connected the country successful Sicily successful the Nov. 13 occurrence of the deed HBO series—Hollander arsenic English expat Quentin, Woodall arsenic his nephew Jack—and the duo didn't discarded immoderate clip making an impact.
"It was truly exciting, truly fun," Woodall exclusively told E! News. "The country successful which it happens is simply a amusive mode to bash it. Just to locomotion retired to the pool, get your kit off, covered successful tattoos and commencement talking astir your delicate nipples."
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For Hollander, champion known for his roles in Bohemian Rhapsody and Pride & Prejudice, it presented an enticing originative opportunity, telling E!, "It was absorbing to work due to the fact that you could spot we're a antithetic constituent coming implicit the elevation and the communicative is going determination other completely."
The 55-year-old histrion credited White Lotus creator Mike White for subverting expectations successful play two—and utilizing his quality arsenic a means to bash so.
"I conscionable retrieve reasoning however bold this is," Hollander said. "He's not sticking to his formula. He's being truly courageous and reckless with it. He said, ‘I'm doing thing other now.' I was thrilled to get connected the ride."
In fact, Hollander compared his acquisition moving with Jennifer Coolidge, who who reprises her Emmy-winning relation arsenic Tanya McQuoid and who helium shares astir of his surface clip with, arsenic literally like being connected an amusement parkland attraction.
"It was similar winning a competition," helium said. "It was similar going connected immoderate Disney thrust wherever you abruptly find yourself successful Pirates of the Caribbean. As a instrumentality of play one, it was precise breathtaking to beryllium lasting adjacent to the existent quality and talking to her arsenic the existent character. I watched play 1 agelong earlier determination was adjacent a proposition of play two, fto unsocial that I'd beryllium successful it. That was thrilling."
Woodall, whose quality shares a infinitesimal with Haley Lu Richardson's Portia during the episode, was rendered astir speechless astir his country partner.
"She is truthful overmuch fun," helium said. "She's 1 of a kind, that woman. She's similar a unicorn. It's benignant of hard to picture her, successful a way. I don't adjacent person words for it. But we had a blast."
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As for whether oregon not Hollander would beryllium unfastened to reprising his relation successful a hypothetical play three (a la Coolidge), helium said helium hasn't heard immoderate rumblings conscionable yet, adding, "You'd person to beryllium retired of your caput not to beryllium interested."
The enigma deepens.
The White Lotus airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO and is disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.
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