Elizabeth Banks desires to play a homicide sufferer on HBO‘s The White Lotus.
The actress-producer spoke about her dream position on Stay With Kelly and Mark Friday whereas selling the brand new animated film Migration she stars in, which was written by The White Lotus author, director and govt producer Mike White 4 years in the past, earlier than he launched into the hit HBO homicide thriller collection.
“I wish to be murdered so badly on The White Lotus,” she mentioned. “Kill me. Please, kill me. I don’t know the way it occurs however…,” Banks mentioned earlier than getting interrupted by Ripa who implored her that she needed to do it, prompting Banks to say, “Inform him!,” referring to Whereas.
Ripa obliged, turning to the digicam to say, “Mike White, please put your good friend Elizabeth Banks in White Lotus season 3 or 4. We’ll take both one.” (You’ll be able to watch the trade beneath. For the file, the collection has been renewed by means of Season 3.)
As Deadline reported final month, The White Lotus began casting for its upcoming third installment instantly after the tip of the SAG-AFTRA strike on Nov. 9.
There was a whole lot of exercise since, with the producers sending gives to a number of well-known stars and studying a whole lot of actors. To date, no new forged members have been locked in and set to hitch Season 1’s Natasha Rothwell. She is reprising her position as Belinda within the Thailand-set third season, which can observe these which are vacationing at a resort there.
As Deadline reported, 13 roles are casting, 9 of them collection regulars — ranging in ages between 18-80s — with a patriarch, a company govt, an actress, a few moms, a misfit and a yogi within the multi-generational group.
It’s unknown which of the Season 3 characters will flip up lifeless however the actors who performed the foremost victims within the first two seasons, Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge, each earned main awards recognition for his or her performances.
Filming is tentatively slated to start in early February in Thailand.
“It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus,” White mentioned about Season 3 final month. “It’s going to be longer, greater, crazier. I don’t know what folks will assume, however I’m tremendous excited, so at the least for my very own barometer, that’s a great factor.”
It’s unclear whether or not which means that the variety of episodes would improve once more after going up from 6 in Season 1 to 7 in Season 2.
Initially focused for 2024, Season 3 is “doubtless transferring into 2025” because of the strikes, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max, mentioned final month.
Following the Season 2 finale of The White Lotus final December, White mentioned that Season 3 will discover “loss of life in Jap faith and spirituality.”
Mentioned HBO’s head of drama Francesca Orsi in Might, “It’s an exploration about spirituality versus the ego. And it’s set in opposition to the Jap faith.”
