In the newest season of” The White Lotus,” K-pop sensation Lalisa” Lisa” Manobal will play in Thailand. Photo: Chris DELMAS / Agency
White Lotus makes a sensual Thailand adventure comeback with” White Lotus”
Playful visitors, searing heat and primates: Thailand was the perfect environment for the new year of HBO’s” The White Lotus”.
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In the newest season of” The White Lotus,” K-pop sensation Lalisa” Lisa” Manobal will play in Thailand. Photo: Chris DELMAS / Agency
Playful tourists, searing warmth and monkeys: Thailand was the perfect environment for the new year of HBO’s” The Light Lotus” to explore the dark secrets and basic desires of the jet-set group, its originator said.
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Season three of the smash-hit hot comedy about well-heeled and misbehaved hotel guests takes position on the exotic island of Koh Samui after trips to Hawaii and Sicily.
The cast and crew spent six months, generally at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, which served as the show’s main environment and the players ‘ real-life resort.
It was the most difficult time to date, according to father Mike White, not just because of the growing cast of characters and incidents (eight ).
” Thailand was a wonderful place to take, but it also had a lot of problems”, White told a press conference on Monday.
” There were times I was like,’ sometimes I’ll just die now, I don’t understand!’ I’m delighted to have survived it, then.
The shot had to argue with sweltering temperatures, outbreaks of dengue fever and food poison, and animals including large screen lizards, snakes and tarantulas, according to a new Chief content.
Actors described a” claustrophobic” atmosphere in which “tensions and difficulties” and “off-screen drama” were rife – all fueled by the hotel’s open-bar policy.
Walton Goggins, an actor who portrays a surly tourist with a young girlfriend ( Aimee Lee Wood ) and a enigmatic vendetta, described the experience as being “in my own” Apocalypse Now.”
‘ It was a reckoning … spirituality, life and death, and 18 really talented actors in front of the camera that Mike assembled, going through an existential crisis … sequestered in a five-star resort.”
In season three of HBO’s” The White Lotus,” US actress Leslie Bibb plays one of a trio of female friends who are trying to rekindle the bonds of their earlier years. Image: Chris DELMAS / AFPLeslie Bibb, playing one of a trio of female friends trying to rekindle the closeness of their younger days, described the shoot as” hot-ass, haunting chaos.”
” It literally was hot … but also the relationships are hot and complicated. It’s sexy and hot, and it just feels like you’re on the pulse of something.”
K-pop and Arnie
The first episode, as usual, begins with the arrival of numerous groups of guests for a week’s worth of lodging at a posh resort.
From the very beginning, we are aware that there will be conflict, relationships will deteriorate, and someone will pass away.
This time, the tourists are staying at a spa resort promoting meditation, therapy and self-care, next door to a Buddhist monastery.
The creator of the show, White, said he was fascinated by “people wanting to be their ideal self and be more than the base animal creatures that they can be,” and then there’s this antic force that keeps pulling them back into “monkey land.” “
These primal instincts are frequently depicted in lascivious monkeys, ominously lurking among the rainforest trees that surround the luxury hotel.
Season two brought back the first run’s beloved ditzy millionaire Tanya McQuoid, memorably played by Emmy-winner Jennifer Coolidge.
The third instalment brings back Belinda ( Natasha Rothwell ), Tanya’s long-suffering spa manager from the White Lotus Hotel in Hawaii.
Belinda pays a visit to her fictional luxury chain’s Thai sister hotel, where staff include Mook, a” health mentor” for guests, played by K-pop sensation Lalisa” Lisa” Manobal.
Manobal, a huge international star who appeared in the girl group Blackpink, left her native Thailand for Korea at the age of 14 and claimed the lengthy” White Lotus shoot provided a rare chance” to reconnect with “her family and homeland.
US actor Patrick Schwarzenegger ( right ), shown here with his father Austrian-US actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, appears in the upcoming season of HBO’s ‘ The White Lotus’. Image: Chris DELMAS / AFPOther new cast members include Michelle Monaghan, of the” Mission: Impossible “films, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, son of legendary action star Arnold.
The younger Schwarzenegger admitted to being anxious about seeing the show with his famous family because of the numerous nude scenes.
” They don’t know anything, “he said.
” There’ll be some times that I take some bathroom breaks … or maybe I won’t watch that episode.”
HBO will air season three of” The White Lotus” on Sunday.
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