Haley Lu Richardson shares who she’d cast for The White Lotus’ third season
The White Lotus star Haley Lu Richardson tells The A.V. Club who she'd like to see check in to one of the infamous hotels
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The second season of The White Lotus has come to an end in an appropriately dramatic (and hilarious) fashion. We’ve said goodbye (and, in some cases, “rest in peace”) to some fan-favorite characters, including Haley Lu Richardson’s Portia. But as she enters the annals of White Lotus alumni, Richardson has a suggestion for who should check into the hotel after her.
“Nicholas Cage!” she suggests in her recent interview with The A.V. Club’s Gabrielle Sanchez. “He could do some wild shit.”
Not much is yet known about the third season of the Emmy-award-winning anthology series, but creator Mike White teased some of his ideas after the season finale aired. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” he explained. “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”
As for the season that just concluded, Richardson tells The A.V. Club that she knew who was going to die all along, but it wasn’t her focus—instead, she was reading each script with “so much empathy for Portia,” as is, arguably, her job to do. “We got all seven episodes up front, and then we filmed the whole show completely out of order, so it was literally like a, I don’t know, 800-page movie or something that we did for five months all over the place,” she shares. “Which was really hard, I’ve never done anything like before. It was hard to like, keep my shit together. As Haley and Portia.”
Portia managed to keep her shit together enough to make it out of Italy alive, which is more than can be said for—spoiler—her employer. And Haley managed to check a major item off her bucket list, which was working with White. You can hear Haley explain how she manifested her collaboration with the White Lotus mastermind above.
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Is Haley Lu Richardson the new Florence Pugh?Here’s my suggested headline: Haley Lu New Pugh?
Just as long as there’s not more than two.
There can only be deux.
Always tugh there are: mastugh and appughntice
Two Pughs? Now that’s news!
*This* is what the AV Club used to be!
I keep seeing her popping-up from all the White Lotus stuff, natch, but her name sounded familiar to me – one of those names that shows up during the credit roll and sticks with you. So I just looked her up on IMDB, thinking maybe she was a kid actor on something I used to watch or something of that sort, and… I recognize her from absolutely nothing. I guess I saw her in Split? Who the hell am I confusing her with!?
She has a huge social media following, but she was new to me too. I guess she was already a breakout star. Lizzie McGuire energy.
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