[This story contains major spoilers from The White Lotus season three finale, “Amor Fati.”]
Season three may have ended in excessive bloodshed, but The White Lotus will continue.
Ahead of Sunday’s season supersized finale, The Hollywood Reporter asked the cast which actor (or character) is most likely to return, as Jon Gries (Greg/Gary) has twice already. Unsurprisingly, Gries was the most common answer.
“Jon is like the barnacle of The White Lotus ship, he stays around,” notes Natasha Rothwell (Belinda). And Walton Goggins (Rick) agrees: “Obviously Jon. It feels like Jon is going to be in every season. Sorry if I gave that away,” he says, and then insists he doesn’t have any kind of inside track.
Gries, for his part, has no idea whether the character will be back, just as he had no idea that he’d be returning for season two or season three. In fact, Greg/Gary was originally supposed to be in the body bag season one. “So, there’s no trying to predict anything Mike White does,” says the actor. “Yes, I would love to come back. But does the book on Greg seem like it’s complete? I can’t tell you.”
Others seem to think we haven’t seen the last of Rothwell’s Belinda, who accepted $5 million from Gries’ character in exchange for her silence in the finale. “The odds are in her favor,” says Carrie Coon (Leslie), and Tayme Thapthimthong (Gaitok) concurs: “Belinda and her son because they started off something at the end there,” he says. “And it could be them riding off into the sunset, but it also could mean something else for them, [where they] use that money to start something else.”
For the record, Rothwell is game to come back for what would be her third season: “I feel like Belinda is everyone and everyone is Belinda,” she says, “and so, maybe, selfishly, they want to be a part of it, through me.”
Aimee Lou Wood, whose own Chelsea met her demise in episode eight, suggests Leslie Bibb’s character, Kate, could be a good candidate to return. “I feel like she could come back on another girls’ trip with a different group of girls,” says the actress. “And I feel like in that group of girls could even be Daphne from season two. Meghann [Fahy’s] character. That could be cool.”
Goggins says he’d “love to see Jaclyn show up in another world,” referring to Michelle Monaghan’s character. “And Parker would be a natural fit. Once she leaves Jason Isaacs, for real. I mean, I don’t know that she can adjust to whatever happens in their life now.”
Isaacs, whose character, Timothy Ratliff, nearly kills his wife and offspring in the season finale, doesn’t have particularly high hopes for his own future with the franchise. “I’m going to prison,” he says. “I won’t be able to afford staying at a White Lotus. I’d be very lucky to be working in the garden.”
Patrick Schwarzenegger, who plays the eldest son, is fairly certain the whole Ratliff family won’t be back, but he has heard rumors about an all-star season. “So, I feel like they’d do all the douchiest guys together or all the hotel managers together,” he says, acknowledging that creator Mike White has casually tossed out the former as an idea. For the record, White told THR that he’d “love” to do an all-star season.
“Assuming this keeps going and people like it and HBO likes it, it would be cool,” says White, who notes it would be incredibly complicated from a scheduling standpoint. “Because all of these people end up becoming huge, huge stars. A lot of these kids that are easy to get are suddenly not so easy to get … but hopefully they’d come back.”
The White Lotus season two is now streaming on Max. Head here for all of THR’s season three interviews and coverage, including our uncensored oral history with White and the cast, breakdown of the finale and finale interviews with Jon Gries and Scott Glenn.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
