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Patrick Schwarzenegger Teases ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale (Exclusive)
It’s astir clip to cheque retired of the White Lotus, but not everyone volition marque it retired alive.
As for the decease teased successful the premiere, that’s conscionable 1 question connected galore viewers’ minds heading into the finale. And acknowledgment to immoderate sly enactment by amusement creator Mike White and his chap producers, the existent reply won’t beryllium revealed until the HBO series’ play 3 finale airs connected April 6.
“We person fake endings to the scripts,” enforcement shaper David Bernad told People in an interrogation published April 4. “So we wrote up… we person six antithetic endings and we benignant of distributed fake endings to radical conscionable successful lawsuit idiosyncratic leaked anything, and past we could accidental there's antithetic fake endings.”
Beyond the deceptive ploy, lone circumstantial formed and unit were allowed to beryllium contiguous during definite large finale moments.
“When we changeable the ending scene, it's a locked down set,” Bernad explained. “So nary 1 truly has entree to what we were shooting and determination would beryllium nary non-White Lotus participants ever seeing what we're doing.”
And portion the show—which includes Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Blackpink’s LISA and Natasha Rothwell among its star-studded play 3 cast—is known for its buzzy finales, the ending wasn’t the lone spot of accusation the White Lotus team worked hard to support nether wraps. In fact, Jon Gries—who plays Gary a.k.a. Greg, the shifty widower of Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid and the lone histrion successful each 3 seasons—made a astonishment instrumentality successful the Thailand-set play and was “really committed to keeping the secret.”
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“When we were traveling and entered Thailand, he, 1 time, rode with the instrumentality successful a bus, alternatively of flying the 45 minutes oregon immoderate it was,” Bernad continued. “I deliberation helium drove like, 12 hours from Phuket to Bangkok.”
As for however fans volition consciousness astir play three’s upcoming finale? Charlotte Le Bon, who plays Chloe successful the show, precocious suggested to The Hollywood Reporter, “People are going to hatred Mike White,” though helium has a much optimistic view.
“My anticipation is that it’ll consciousness similar a cathartic bittersweet oregon a satisfying bittersweet and not a ‘What the f--k?’ sad,” White told the outlet for its screen communicative connected the bid published April 2. “People are going to person a cardinal antithetic opinions. You conscionable anticipation you instrumentality the landing.”
Read connected to spot who other is successful play 3 of The White Lotus and larn wherever you’ve seen them before.
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Lalisa Manobal
How you similar that? The vocalist known mononymously arsenic Lisa went from being a rockstar connected satellite stages arsenic portion of K-pop radical Blackpink—alongside Jisoo, Jennie and Rosé—to donning the White Lotus unit azygous for her large debut arsenic Mook.
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Jason Isaacs
Looks similar Lucius Malfoy missed the bid to Hogwarts and alternatively landed astatine The White Lotus. That's right: He whitethorn look antithetic without the luscious blond hair, but the Harry Potter prima is returning to the surface arsenic different uppity begetter figure, playing Timothy Ratliff, described arsenic a "wealthy businessman vacationing with his woman and 3 children."
Isaacs has besides made much caller appearances connected TV shows similar Robot Chicken, The Great and Sex Education (alongside his White Lotus costar Aimee Lou Wood.)
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Parker Posey
Don't shriek erstwhile you spot it, but Posey—who plays Timothy's woman Victoria Ratliff—may look acquainted from her movies Superman Returns, Blade: Trinity, Scream 3 and Dazed and Confused. She's besides had little stints connected specified TV shows arsenic Parks and Recreation, New Girl, Portlandia and Search Party.
But the existent rom-com fans volition cognize her from the 1998 classical You've Got Mail, successful which she played Joe Fox's (Tom Hanks) woman Patricia Eden.
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Patrick Schwarzenegger
While you whitethorn cognize him champion from household photos arsenic the lad of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, he has already made a sanction for himself acting successful Gen V, The Terminal List and The Staircase before playing Saxon Ratliff successful play three.
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Sarah Catherine Hook
Prior to taking connected the portion of the Ratliffs' girl Piper, Hook got her feet bedewed successful the fearfulness and phantasy genres, portraying Debbie Glatzel successful The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Juliette Fairmont successful First Kill and Elena Milak successful Monsterland.
You whitethorn besides cognize her from the 2024 Cruel Intentions remake arsenic Caroline Merteuil oregon from the Ryan Murphy cinematic universe, successful which she played Catherine Allday Davis successful Impeachment: American Crime Story astir the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Sam Nivola
Nivola—who is dating Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann's girl Iris Apatow—rounds retired the Ratliff household arsenic young Lochlan. But earlier hitting the shores of Thailand, helium was successful different amusement astir a affluent household astatine the beach: The Perfect Couple, playing Will Winbury, the lad of Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber's Greer and Tag Winbury. He adjacent costarred connected the Netflix play with White Lotus alum Meghann Fahy, who appeared arsenic Daphne Sullivan connected play 2 of the HBO amusement earlier playing Merritt Monaco connected The Perfect Couple.
Nivola has besides acted successful White Noise with Adam Driver, Maestro with Bradley Cooper and With/In with Anne Hathaway.
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Natasha Rothwell
Of course, White Lotus fans volition admit Rothwell from play one, successful which she played spa guru Belinda successful Maui. Not lone is she reprising the portion for play three, but the histrion has besides graced the surface successful Insecure, Wonka, A Year and Change and Love, Simon. Plus, she lent her drama chops to Saturday Night Live as a writer from 2014 to 2015.
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Leslie Bibb
The Iron Man alum is assembling to play Kate successful The White Lotus aft portraying Christine Everhart successful the Marvel franchise. More recently, she starred successful Palm Royale arsenic Dinah Donahue and Jupiter’s Legacy arsenic Grace Kennedy-Sampson.
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Carrie Coon
The Gilded Age star—who whitethorn besides look acquainted from The Sinner, Fargo and The Leftovers—steps into the relation of Laurie, who joins pals Kate and Jaclyn for a girls' travel successful Thailand this season.
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Michelle Monaghan
While Monaghan plays TV prima Jaclyn connected The White Lotus, she’s besides a TV prima IRL, having been connected True Detective, Bad Monkey, Messiah and The Path. On the large screen, she's starred arsenic Julia successful Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Angie Genaro successful Gone Baby Gone.
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Walton Goggins
You'll consciousness justified successful knowing that it's not each successful your head—Goggins truly does look familiar. In summation to starring successful 2 Quentin Tarantino movies (playing Billy Crash successful Django Unchained and Sheriff Chris Mannix successful The Hateful Eight), helium is besides known for being Boyd Crowder successful Justified from 2010 to 2015.
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Aimee Lou Wood
The English histrion joins the formed successful play 3 arsenic free-spirited Chelsea, who has an age-gap romance with Goggins' quality Rick Hatchett. Yet, she is champion known for her relation arsenic Aimee Gibbs connected Netflix’s Sex Education and also appeared successful Seize Them! and Daddy Issues.
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Lek Patravadi
Her acting credits whitethorn hint backmost 50 years—starting with Grounded God successful 1975—but she astir precocious portrayed Prani Chiraanan connected In Family We Trust successful 2018.
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Tayme Thapthimthong
The vocalist and erstwhile subject antheral has acting credits that see Mechanic: Resurrection, Skin Trade and Paradox, arsenic good arsenic playing Pao connected the TV bid Farang.
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Christian Friedel
If 13 minutes wasn't capable clip to fig retired wherever you admit the German actor, let america to refresh your memory. He played Rudolf Höss successful The Zone of Interest, Reinhold Gräf successful Babylon Berlin and Georg Elser successful 13 Minutes.
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