Murray Bartlett is looking back at THAT moment from the season one finale of The White Lotus!
25.01.2022 - 19:47 / variety.com
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorGet ready for the possibility of Murray Bartlett in short-shorts and leg warmers.“The White Lotus” star tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast that he has been cast in Season 2 of “Physical,” the Apple TV Plus series starring Rose Byrne as Sheila, a 1980s San Diego housewife who begins to find herself after being introduced to aerobics.“The writing in this season is really fantastic,” Bartlett says. “That stuff that I get to do is really fun, but it’s twisted and smart. It’s interesting because it’s got that whole like ’80s fun thing, but there’s a depth to this show that’s really moving.”Bartlett wasn’t able to share too much about his character when we spoke, but Apple has now provided some details.
He’ll play Vincent “Vinnie” Green, a charismatic fitness instructor, weight loss guru and late-night infomercial pioneer. He and Sheila are both friends and rivals who struggle privately with personal demons. Bartlett certainly knows how to play a character with demons.
In “White Lotus,” he stars as resort manager Armond, whose life implodes when he falls off the wagon. Not only is he caught in his office having sex with a much younger employee (Lukas Gage) during a night of drugs and alcohol, but he also seeks revenge on a guest (Jake Lacy) by defecating in his suitcase.So, which scene was more challenging to shoot? “I don’t know. That’s a really difficult question.
I think any of those kind of intimate scenes that you do are just weird,” Bartlett says. “There’s an element of it that is always going to be weird and sort of slightly awkward, but Mike creates this incredible feeling of play on set, and we were having so much fun. We were all
.Murray Bartlett is looking back at THAT moment from the season one finale of The White Lotus!
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Renaissance Man” guest grow up on their televisions and turn into a rapping, dancing and acting triple threat before our very eyes. But he informs me his hoops game is similar to Chris Paul, so we might have to turn that threat into a quadruple. I’m talking about “Black-ish” star Miles Brown aka Baby Boogaloo.
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe climate change anthology series “Extrapolations” at Apple has added eight new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.Murray Bartlett (“The White Lotus”), Yara Shahidi (“Grown-ish,” “Black-ish”), Diane Lane (“Unfaithful,” “Under the Tuscan Sun”), Heather Graham (“Boogie Nights,” “Wander”), Grammy Award-winner Ben Harper, Judd Hirsch (“Uncut Gems,” “The Goldbergs”), Hari Nef (“Transparent,” “You”), and Neska Rose (“Drama Club”) have all joined the series. This is the second Apple series role announced for Bartlett in recent days, as Variety exclusively reported he would also star in “Physical” Season 2.They join previously announced cast members Meryl Streep, Matthew Rhys, Marion Cotillard, Eiza Gonzalez, Tobey Maguire, Forest Whitaker, Edward Norton, Kit Harrington, Sienna Miller, Gemma Chan, Tahar Rahim, Daveed Diggs, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Indira Varma, Keri Russell, Cherry Jones, and Michael Gandolfini.
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their sudden engagement, his fellow cast members are definitely not convinced it's true love. In this exclusive clip from part one of the tell-all special for this season of streaming Friday on Discovery+, Debbie and Stephanie bluntly tell Big Ed and Liz that their engagement is «desperate» and «a bribe» on Ed's part.Big Ed and Liz have had a rocky on-again, off-again relationship, and he previously admitted to breaking up with her via text eight times.
their sudden engagement, his fellow cast members are definitely not convinced it's true love. In this exclusive clip from part one of the tell-all special for this season of streaming Friday on Discovery+, Debbie and Stephanie bluntly tell Big Ed and Liz that their engagement is «desperate» and «a bribe» on Ed's part.Big Ed and Liz have had a rocky on-again, off-again relationship, and he previously admitted to breaking up with her via text eight times.
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third season, but not even Sam Obisanya knows what lies ahead for the beloved comedy!«Nobody is telling me anything,» series star Toheeb Jimoh told ET's Nischelle Turner in a recent interview. «Everybody's keeping stuff close to the chest. But I have ideas, they've dropped me hints. I've got clues, none of which I will share with you today!»Jimoh was a breakout star in season 1 as AFC Richmond's cheerful and talented young defenseman, and shone through once again in season 2, as Sam spoke out against a team sponsor that was wreaking environment havoc in Africa and weighed a tempting offer from a Nigerian tycoon hoping to build a powerhouse team in his home country.While born and raised in the U.K., Jimoh's parents are of Nigerian descent and he spent time in the country growing up.