“For two days, I did not sleep,” the creator said.
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Mike White’s idea of a sick day is very different from yours.
And while he was sick, he ended up hallucinating the entire plot for the Asian-set installment.
Mike White.Credit:Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
“They put me on a nebulizer.
It was like Id smoked crack not that Ive smoked crack.
For two days, I did not sleep.
Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola in ‘The White Lotus’.Fabio Lovino/HBO
White Lotusproducer David Bernad heard White’s entire season 3 plot the next day.
“I saw Mike the next morning, and he told me what hed hallucinated,” he said.
“Thats basically what we shot.”
But that trip changed everything.
“Originally, I wanted to shoot in Japan,” the showrunner said.
But HBO was really pushing it because Thailand had good tax incentives.
As an artist, your knee-jerk reaction is, ‘Im not doing that!'”
Its amusing to me when people approach the show in this very literal way, like the show isaboutincest.
Im glad we found you, but youre not really the audience."
As for how it all ends?
Find out whenThe White Lotusseason 3 finale airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.
