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The White Lotus season two stars Meghann Fahy and Leo Woodall have confirmed that they are in a real-life relationship.Following months of speculation, the pair were recently pictured kissing while taking a walk in the rain in New York City.While both Fahy and Woodall have shared photos of each other on Instagram and commented “I love you” on each other’s posts, neither has publicly confirmed the relationship.When Fahy was asked in January on Watch What Happens Live, she told host Andy Cohen, “Oh, I don’t kiss and tell. Come on, guys… For you, I’ll say sure.

Are you a fan of “The White Lotus” and jonesing for the next season? Well, good news! No, the third season of “The White Lotus” isn’t arriving on HBO anytime soon (the SAG strike delayed things), but instead, you can watch the next project from writer Mike White. There’s only one catch—instead of the dark comedy and wild characters of “The White Lotus,” you have to watch a film about a group of ducks who want to go to Jamaica.

The upcoming Broadway revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong has landed two more heavy hitters: Michael Imperioli will costar opposite Strong, and Plan B, the production company of Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner, has signed on as a producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Mike White’s The White Lotus is not wasting any time ramping up for Season 3. On Nov. 9, the very day the SAG-AFTRA strike ended at 12:01 AM, the Emmy-winning HBO anthology series started casting for its upcoming third installment by releasing a list of the new characters. Filming is tentatively slated to begin in early February in Thailand, sources said.

Mike White‘s “The White Lotus” was initially supposed to be a one-off for HBO. But after it won over audiences in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the network changed its pans.

A third season of HBO’s hit series The White Lotus is on the way!

The White Lotus creator Mike White has described the upcoming third season as “longer, bigger, crazier” in a new interview.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, White explained that he hopes to start filming season three of the HBO series “at the beginning of the year”, if the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike is resolved by then.“I’m seriously finishing scripts,” White said. “Still waiting to be able to cast.

With the writers strike over, The White Lotus creator Mike White is back at work on the upcoming third installment of the Emmy-winning anthology series, which is expected to debut in 2025.

Alison Herman TV Critic “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” bears many of the trademarks of executive producer Taylor Sheridan, who now counts the anthology drama among his sprawling (and still growing) stable of shows for the streaming service Paramount+. The hour-long series is a big-budget Western with an overqualified cast — a rough synopsis that also applies to Sheridan touchstones like “1883” and “1923,” both star-studded prequels to his breakout hit “Yellowstone.” This particular ensemble is led by David Oyelowo as Reeves, a real-life historical figure and formerly enslaved U.S.

Guests won’t be able to check in to the third season of The White Lotus until 2025.

The idea of showrunners such as The White Lotus’ Mike White and Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan show write entire series of television by themselves was a much-debated topic of conversation during the WGA’s long summer strike.

EXCLUSIVE: Max Hollman, a rising star drama executive at HBO, has left the premium cable network to join Middle Child Pictures, the film and TV company launched recently by David Bernad (The White Lotus, Jury Duty). Hollman will continue to work with HBO as he sets off to run television for Middle Child Pictures as Producer/Executive through a first-look TV deal the company has signed with HBO and A24.

Karen M. Peterson From the start, “The White Lo­­tus” has focused on building characters. The second season of Mike White’s watercooler show for HBO, brought a (mostly) new cast, a new location and a switch from limited series to drama, where it added 23 Emmy nominations to its tally, five of which went to supporting actresses.

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear, the production, management and financing company founded by Teddy Schwarzman, on Thursday announced its signing of Simona Tabasco, one of the breakout Italian stars of The White Lotus‘ second season.

Salma Hayek is having an incredible summer. Over the past months, she’s shared various photos and updates of her summer, this time, sharing a photo of herself and her husband François-Henri Pinault playfully enjoying their time in the water. Salma Hayek says she does not get Botox and credits her great skin to meditationSalma Hayek refuses to star in another TV show to focus on her daughter ValentinaA post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek)The photo is a part of Hayek’s latest Instagram post, and shows Hayek in a pink one piece bathing suit.

Salma Hayek is addressing the possibility of appearing on The White Lotus.

Salma Hayek says she has a «fantasy» about working with famed writer and producer Mike White. But whether it's to join his award-winning HBO show,, well, that's easier said than done.In an exclusive sneak peek of her interview set to air Wednesday on Kelly Ripa's SiriusXM podcast, the 56-year-old actress recalled fond memories of working with White, who wrote the role of Beatriz Blanco specifically for Hayek in the 2017 drama,, directed by Miguel Arteta and also starring John Lithgow and Connie Britton. «Oh my god, I love him so much,» says Hayek in an interview conducted last month and prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, which began on July 13.After Ripa tells her she has a «fantasy» about the star acting on, Hayek says she would «absolutely» play a role if he wrote a part for her.«Absolutely,» she says. «I would do anything with Mike.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers about the end of HBO’s White Lotus season 2

The White Lotus is dominating the nominations at the 2023 Emmy Awards and a majority of the actors from the show got nominated for awards!

The White Lotus is currently on pause due to the Hollywood writers’ strike, it has been revealed.The third season of The White Lotus is believed to be set in Thailand, after creator Mike White was reportedly scouting locations there. The first two seasons were set in Hawaii and Sicily respectively, with predominantly all-new ensemble casts in each.In a new appearance on The News Agents podcast, star Tom Hollander, who played British expat Quentin in the show’s second season, has confirmed that the new series will be set in Asia, and that “like everything else, it’s on pause”.He said: “They can’t actually shoot it, and they can’t write it, I think they know what the story is.”Hollander added that the show’s creator, Mike White, is also pausing production on the show because he doesn’t want to be thrown out of the Writers’ Guild.“You wouldn’t want to [be thrown out of the union], you’d be a scab,” the star said.Elsewhere, Jennifer Coolidge has said she hopes Tanya’s husband dies in a “meat-grinding machine” in the show’s third season.In the finale of the show’s second season, Tanya (Coolidge) goes on a shooting spree aboard a yacht against a group hired by her husband Greg (Jon Gries) to kill her.

The stars are stepping out for the Loewe Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 Fashion Show!

Jennifer Coolidge almost missed out on playing Tanya McQuoid. During The Hollywood Reporter‘s drama actress roundtable, the 61-year-old actress reveals how her now-iconic role on “The White Lotus” nearly slipped through her grasp.

Jennifer Coolidge almost missed out on playing Tanya McQuoid. During 's drama actress roundtable, the 61-year-old actress reveals how her now-iconic role on nearly slipped through her grasp.«Mike and I were going to do another show, which had been turned down by a lot of people, and he mentioned he was going to write [his next] show about rich people on vacation, but I never heard anything more about it,» Coolidge tells Claire Danes, Emma D'Arcy, Dominique Fishback, Jennifer Garner and Melanie Lynskey of Mike White, the show's creator.Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, Coolidge explains.«We were like six months into COVID, and I'd been locked up in my house in New Orleans just pigging out on these vegan pizzas.

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2023 Emmy contention. It showcases the critical role writer’s work plays in a show’s success. All materials (the script and writers intro) were submitted before the WGA strike began on May 2.

The White Lotus perceived her character Portia as a villain.Richardson played Tanya’s (Jennifer Coolidge) young assistant in season 2 of Mike White’s hit HBO series, which aired late last year to critical acclaim.The role ended up being Richardson’s most high-profile to date, and, speaking on the Just For Variety podcast, she admitted that the spotlight took some getting used to, especially when Portia was criticised by some for seeming entitled or spoiled.“I just hadn’t been in that situation before, so I did get sad,” Richardson says. “There was probably the first couple of episodes where I was seeing some things and reactions to things with Portia and me that I was taking personally or I wasn’t fully sure how to take it or how to process it.”[via Variety]She grew to realise that it was a good thing people were talking about the show in such detail.

Ben Croll With “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” riding high to the tune of $1.3 billion in global receipts, and as Pharrell Williams lay in the wings to offer the producer a lifetime achievement award, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri made sure to direct the lion’s share of attention to “Migration” director Benjamin Renner as the pair sat before a packed auditorium at the Annecy Animation Festival on Wednesday. Taking the stage after premiering 25 minutes of “Migration” footage, Meledandri stepped (quite adeptly) into the role of interviewer, putting Renner in the spotlight and peppering the French filmmaker with questions about inspiration and artistry. If the interest was genuine, it was also no doubt strategic, as Meledandri inferred to Variety in an interview following the presentation.

Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri was feted at the Annecy International Film Festival Wednesday morning with a “Golden Ticket” lifetime accreditation in a surprise session featuring Grammy-winning musician and Louis Vuitton designer Pharrell Williams.

Editor’s note: The following interviews were done outside of the FYC event series, as there was no panel or screening.

Naman Ramachandran Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri was presented with the Annecy International Film Festival’s lifetime accreditation Golden Ticket on Wednesday. In a surprise appearance, two-time Oscar nominee and Grammy-winning global superstar Pharrell Williams presented Meledandri with the festival’s honor. Meledandri is the creative producer behind “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the Despicable Me, Minions, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets franchises, and the upcoming action comedy, “Migration.” Williams, a longtime creative partner with Illumination, earned his first Academy Award nomination for his blockbuster song “Happy” from the studio’s “Despicable Me 2.”

On their latest shows, Brett Goldstein and Theo James have created characters who unpeel deeper truths beyond their hunky appearances. Goldstein, who’s won two Emmys for portraying soccer player and coach Roy Kent on “Ted Lasso,” returned for the Apple TV+ comedy’s third season. (He’s also a co-creator and writer on “Shrinking,” about a therapist played by Jason Segel.) James joined the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” set in Italy and from creator Mike White, as a chiseled, privileged vacationer. THEO JAMES: How did you end up writing for “Ted Lasso”? BRETT GOLDSTEIN: I’d done a pilot for Bill Lawrence. The pilot didn’t get picked up, but we stayed in touch, and he knew I was a writer as well as an actor. When people ask me for advice, I’m always like, there’s no magic phone call. It doesn’t happen. But I did get a magic phone call here, from Bill, out of the blue, saying, “I think you’d be good for this football show.”

No, we didn’t ask Leo Woodall about the “scene” in “The White Lotus” season two. Maybe we should have.

The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge could “absolutely” get her own spin-off series, according to the show’s creator.Coolidge starred as Tanya McQuoid in the two seasons of the hit HBO show, the only character to carry over between both season one and two.Tanya met her death at the end of season two, but creator Mike White has said that there is the possibility of a prequel series focusing on the character.“I absolutely think that’s possible,” White told press at the Vivid Sydney Festival this weekend (June 10), as reported by Deadline.“We were just talking about that. It’s a funny idea,” he added, discussing the potential joy of “making Jennifer 20 years younger” to become a younger version of Tanya.“That would be fun too,” White added.

Jennifer Coolidge the huge success of two seasons of “The White Lotus” represents both a huge career revival and a hard act to follow. “I have to move on,” Coolidge told fans in Sydney, Australia, this weekend. “Offers have come in and I would love to do a film next, but ‘The White Lotus’ holds this very high bar, so it will be hard to choose.” Coolidge and the show’s creator, writer and director Mike White were in Australia’s biggest city for Vivid Talks, part of 23-day Vivid Sydney, the largest festival in Australia. Their 90 minute “Conversation” was attended by a sold-out crowd of 9,000 at Sydney’s Aware Super Theatre stadium.

Elizabeth Olsen and Meghann Fahy deliver two of the most nuanced performances of the Emmy season, both playing complicated women who are wives and mothers. In “Love & Death,” Olsen’s Candy Montgomery is based on a real housewife in late-1970s Texas, who out of boredom instigates an affair with Allan (Jesse Plemons), a member of her church — an illicit assignation that eventually leads to Candy being on trial for murdering Allan’s wife, Betty (Lily Rabe). In a very different setting, Season 2 of Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” Fahy plays Daphne, a character on a luxury Sicilian vacation with her husband, Cameron (Theo James), and another couple: Ethan (Will Sharpe) and Harper (Aubrey Plaza). As the tension among the four escalates, it’s both sexual and violent — and oddsmakers were entirely wrong about the identity of the dead body in the season-premiere flashback.

Carole Horst This year, the Annecy Animation Film Festival hosts a variety of first-looks and works-in-progress, including the anticipated “Migration,” from Illumination, to be released by Universal on Dec. 22. On the heels of a presentation at CinemaCon in April, Illumination chief Chris Meledandri will present never-before-seen footage of the feature at Annecy June 13. Meledandri and “Migration” director Benjamin Renner (“Ernest and Celestine,” “The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales”) will also be in conversation about the film. The film stars the voice talents of Kumail Nanjiani and Elizabeth Banks as duck parents who lead their family on an adventure. Rest of the cast is rounded out by Casper Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell and Danny DeVito.