The White Lotus, Mike White’s Emmy-winning HBO collection, presents many pleasures, from sharp writing and lovely places to among the greatest ensembles on TV. Season 3 isn’t any totally different, bringing collectively a celebration of performers recognized for making any given undertaking that significantly better.

This week introduced us the primary trailer for season 3, which unfolds at a White Lotus resort in Thailand and reintroduces us to season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell). The teaser additionally highlights a number of different gamers gracing the resort’s grounds, together with a rich household in disaster and a trio of lifelong pals simmering with pent-up resentment.

Whereas we will’t inform you who’s within the physique bag — there's at all times a physique bag on this present — we can inform you the whole lot we find out about this season’s friends, and why they appear so dang acquainted.

Learn on for a who’s who of The White Lotus season 3 forged.

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Natasha Rothwell as Belinda

We first met Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda in season 1 of The White Lotus, the place she performed a put-upon spa supervisor who desires of beginning her personal wellness firm. She almost realized that dream with the assistance of Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), however her potential benefactor let her down ultimately.

An actress and author, Rothwell, lower her enamel cooking up sketches on Saturday Evening Dwell (2014–2015) earlier than making a splash as each a author and performer on HBO’s Insecure (2016–2020). Since then, she’s appeared in Love, Simon (2018), Wonka (2024), and the Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy, and lent her voice to animated initiatives like Want (2023), American Dad (2021–2022), and DuckTales (2018–2020).

Forward of season 3’s first trailer, Rothwell spoke with EW about what introduced her character to Thailand. "She's nonetheless working on the White Lotus, and she or he's in Thailand doing kind of an alternate program to be taught extra in regards to the wellness packages that the Thailand White Lotus presents," she stated. "She's going to be a visitor for the primary time, regardless that she's taking courses and it's a piece journey. She's staying on the lodge, which is one thing that she hasn't carried out earlier than, and so we get to see her actually dip her toe within the different facet of lifetime of the upstairs/downstairs of White Lotus."

Rothwell additionally clued us in to what Belinda has been as much as since we left her in Maui. "She was so devastated by Tanya taking what little hope she had and shattering it. Over the course of the Italy season of White Lotus on the earth that we've created, she's been attempting to dig herself out of that disappointment and actually be impressed once more. Her objective for coming to Thailand is to have a dream once more."

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Walton Goggins as Rick

A journeyman character actor with a particular Alabaman drawl, Walton Goggins first turned heads enjoying the type of roughnecks you like to hate on FX’s The Protect (2002–2008) and Justified (2010–2015). Since then, he’s oscillated nimbly between the large and small screens, with roles in movies like Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015), Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and collection like CBS’s The Unicorn (2019–2021) and Amazon’s Fallout (2024). After all, one can’t talk about Goggins with out mentioning his gem of a flip as Child Billy on HBO’s The Righteous Gems (2019–current).

He arrives on the White Lotus because the (a lot) older boyfriend of Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden). His character, Rick, is described as "a rugged man with a chip on his shoulder," and the trailer hints that his journey could also be about extra rest. In separate interviews, he described the season as “poetic chaos” and his expertise filming it as “life-changing.”

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Carrie Coon as Laurie

After years of acting on stage in Chicago, Carrie Coon established her onscreen profession with roles in David Fincher’s Gone Lady (2014) and HBO’s The Leftovers (2014–2017). She’s since bounced between crowd-pleasing mainstream fare (Avengers: Infinity Battle, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and darker, extra cerebral works (Widows, His Three Daughters). She’s presently embroiled within the battle between new and previous cash on HBO’s The Gilded Age (2022–2023).

Coon performs Laurie, a middle-aged lady reuniting together with her previous — sorry, “longtime” — pals for a rowdy getaway. In an interview with Town & Country, White cheekily describes Laurie as a “primary bitch.” Talking of the “large, blonde blob” that’s Laurie’s buddy group, he provides, “You’re not precisely positive what the dynamic of those girls is and the place her character goes, however belief me, by the tip it will get juicy. All of Carrie’s dramatic and comedic abilities are put to make use of.”

Coon, in the meantime, presents a little bit of perception into Laurie’s relationship with the gals performed by Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan. “[Sometimes] we have now friendships which might be out of behavior versus shared pursuits, and that isn’t at all times obvious to us once we’re spending our lives removed from folks we love,” she stated. “It’s not till you share house with them that you simply come up in opposition to these points.”

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Michelle Monaghan as Jaclyn

Michelle Monaghan has been performing because the flip of the century, however she rose to fame kicking ass in motion blockbusters like The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and Mission: Inconceivable III (2006), in addition to the chic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005).

In 2015, the actress scored a Golden Globe nomination for her position reverse Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in True Detective’s landmark first season. Final 12 months, she navigated a sleazy ‘70s-era Los Angeles in Ti West’s MaXXXine and starred alongside Vince Vaughn in AppleTV+’s Unhealthy Monkey.

On The White Lotus, she joins Coon and Leslie Bibb as one-third of a reuniting buddy group. “It’s such a enjoyable, juicy character,” she instructed Collider. “All of them are. All people has their moments.” She went on to name the season a “beast,” including, “I imply, it’s large. We achieve this a lot. The scope of season 3 is larger than season 1 and season 2, the forged is larger consequently. It’s actually particular.”

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Leslie Bibb as Kate

Leslie Bibb had already been performing for years when she scored a number one position on The WB’s Standard (1999–2001) and a recurring spot on ER (2002–2003). Since then, she’s appeared in dozens of movies and collection, together with Talladega Nights (2006), Trick ‘r Deal with (2007), and the primary two Iron Man movies. Most just lately, she costarred with Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette in Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 (2024).

Bibb’s Kate is, like Coon’s Laurie and Monaghan’s Jaclyn, testing the boundaries of a buddy group that could be previous its expiration date. “Friendships are difficult, and this journey explores whether or not these girls can rediscover and settle for one another,” she recently told Gotham of the season.

“The story is about friendship. It’s about spirituality. It’s about what you imagine. It’s about intimacy — and in addition being okay with who you might be,” she added. “Artwork and life began to reflect one another. You’re in another country, thus far faraway from the world, and it makes the work higher. The perimeters between Leslie Bibb and Kate, my character, turned so blurred.”

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Lalisa Manobal as Mook

The White Lotus marks Lalisa Manobal’s first performing gig, however she's no stranger to efficiency, having been a member of South Korea’s Blackpink because the massively well-liked group’s 2016 debut.

She performs Mook, a employees member on the resort. “It’s fairly new to me, however I feel it’s just like taking pictures music movies,” she instructed Rolling Stone. “I’m excited for my followers to see it. I really feel like individuals are going to fall in love with Thailand much more.”

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Jason Isaacs as Timothy

Jason Isaacs has been a “that man” actor because the ‘80s, although he’s in all probability greatest recognized for enjoying the malevolent Lucius Malfoy within the Harry Potter movie collection. Isaac can also be a mainstay on tv screens, having appeared in collection like Netflix's The OA (2016–2019) and CBS' Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2018). He's lent his voice to animated initiatives corresponding to Avatar: The Final Airbender (2005) and Star Wars Rebels (2014–2016).

White loves a rich elite in turmoil, and Isaacs seems to be filling that position on this go-around. “We’re poor now and Daddy’s going to jail,” he grouses within the trailer, giving us the impression that Timothy may very nicely be the one in a physique bag by season’s finish.

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Parker Posey as Victoria

A Gen X cinematic icon, Parker Posey starred in among the ‘90s most daring and provocative indies — Dazed and Confused (1993), Occasion Lady (1995), Ready For Guffman (1996), The Home of Sure (1997) — earlier than hitting the mainstream with roles in You’ve Bought Mail (1998), Scream 3 (2000), and Superman Returns (2006). She stays a beloved display presence, anchoring essentially the most hilarious (and distressing) scene in Ari Aster’s wonderful Beau Is Afraid (2023).

If there’s one factor we find out about Victoria from the newest trailer, it’s that she actually loves being wealthy. “What if we misplaced the whole lot?” asks Isaac’s Timothy. “Actually, I don’t know if I’d wish to dwell. I simply don’t know if I’ve it in me,” she replies. Definitely not the response one needs to listen to.

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Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon

Sure, Patrick Schwarzenegger is the son of that Schwarzenegger, however he’s not content material to dwell in his father’s formidable shadow. Since first gracing the display in 2006’s The Benchwarmers, the actor has had sizable roles on a number of well-regarded reveals, together with HBO’s The Staircase (2022) and Gen V (2023), Amazon’s spinoff of The Boys.

Because the eldest son of Timothy and Victoria, Schwarzenegger’s Saxon seems to be the type of wealthy, good-looking child you like to hate. In an interview with E! News, he described his expertise filming the present as “surreal” and “life-changing,” echoing costar Goggins.

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Aimee Lou Wooden as Chelsea

BAFTA-winning actress Aimee Lou Wooden broke out as a star of Netflix’s Intercourse Schooling (2019–2023) and the movie Residing (2022), a contemporary adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. Wooden’s Chelsea arrives on the White Lotus on the arm of Goggins’ Rick, who, she reminds him, usually will get mistaken for her dad.

Although initially written to be an American, Wooden revealed in an interview with the Radio Times that they most well-liked her English accent. “My character was meant to be American after which I did a self-tape, one in an American accent and one in my very own,” she stated. “They had been like, ‘Yeah, we wish your personal voice,’ so my character goes to be from Manchester.”

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