A slip of the tongue? Johnny Knoxville doubtlessly revealed the following location for the third season of The White Lotus due to his friendship with the present’s creator Mike White.
“Mike White is a really shut good friend of mine,” the Jackass star, 51, shared in an interview with Vulture printed on Thursday, February 16. “He and I had been in Tokyo collectively. I feel that’s the place the following … oh, I’m not giving something away. I would name him once more as quickly as that is over.”
The anthology sequence follows the friends and workers at a fictional resort chain named the White Lotus. Every season is ready in a unique location with a brand new solid. The primary season was shot in Hawaii whereas the second season was filmed in Italy.
In November 2022, TVLine confirmed that the HBO present was renewed for a 3rd season. Forward of the renewal announcement, White, 52, was already brainstorming concepts for the following filming location.
“I feel it’d be enjoyable to perhaps go to a complete completely different continent. You already know, we did Europe, and perhaps Asia, one thing loopy like that, that might be enjoyable,” the Survivor alum informed Deadline in October 2022. Two months later, White elaborated extra on the potential location in the course of the HBO Max Unpacking S2 E7 particular.
“The primary season type of highlighted cash, after which the second season is intercourse,” he teased in December 2022. “I feel the third season can be perhaps a satirical and humorous take a look at demise and Jap faith and spirituality. It feels prefer it might be a wealthy tapestry to do one other spherical at White Lotus.”
The dramedy gained crucial acclaim with its first season — which premiered in July 2021 — and had a star-studded solid. It featured Connie Britton, Sydney Sweeney, Murray Bartlett, Jennifer Coolidge and extra. The Legally Blonde actress went on to win an Emmy in 2022 for her position as Tanya McQuoid within the first season. Coolidge, 61, was the one unique solid member to reprise her position for the second season, incomes her a Critics Selection Award and Golden Globe in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
“As a result of the seasons are so thematically completely different, the areas are completely different, the solid is usually completely different, it felt like it could make sense to have any individual be the connective tissue between the 2 seasons. And if we went to Italy with out Jennifer, she can be so mad,” White informed Selection in November 2022 of why he selected to maintain Coolidge on. “Clearly individuals beloved her, and she or he’s my good friend. So, it simply made sense that it could be Jennifer.”
Nevertheless — spoiler alert — Coolidge’s character met her demise in Italy and was killed off within the season finale.
“I used to be pondering, it’d be so enjoyable to convey Tanya again as a result of she’s such an amazing character, however perhaps that’s the journey for her, a journey to demise,” White recalled in December 2022 about his choice to homicide the beloved character. “Not that I actually wished to kill Tanya as a result of I really like her as a personality and clearly love Jennifer, however I simply felt like, we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva — a bigger than life feminine archetype — it felt like we may devise our personal operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.”
Whereas the season 3 location has been seemingly determined, followers are not sure who will return for the following season because the solid has but to be introduced. Coolidge, for her half, is uncertain of a possible resurrection.
“He’s an incredible good friend, however I feel he made his choice,” the A Cinderella Story star stated to E! Information in January. “He wished a giant, dramatic, Italian, you recognize, operatic ending for White Lotus 2, and he wished to sacrifice Tanya.”
