NEED TO KNOW
- Alexandra Daddario, who starred on season 1 of The White Lotus, teases what she thinks her character is perhaps as much as if she ever returned to the sequence
- Daddario performed Rachel Patton, who was unhappily married to entitled husband Shane (Jake Lacy)
- The actress is presently starring within the new LGBTQ+ drama I Want You All of the Finest, in theaters now
What would life appear like for Rachel Patton if she checked in to The White Lotus once more?
Alexandra Daddario, who performed the character on season 1 of HBO’s Emmy-winning black comedy-drama, has some ideas.
Whereas talking with ipromiseyoumedia about her new LGBTQ+ coming of age film I Want You All of the Finest, Daddario, 39, says she believes Rachel, a younger freelance author, has possible remained married to her rich and entitled husband Shane (Jake Lacy).
“In my thoughts she stayed with him. And what does that appear like 4 years down the highway? And did they’ve children? There’s a number of instructions that might go in,” continues Daddario.
“I do take into consideration her as a personality, and it makes me unhappy to assume that she’s nonetheless on the market within the artistic ether with him,” she says.
Finally, although, she’d defer to creator Mike White: “I might be very curious to see what he thinks she’s as much as.”
Season 1, which was set on the titular fictional resort’s Maui, Hawaii, location, featured Rachel and Shane on a tense honeymoon as the brand new Mrs. Patton questioned whether or not she actually needed to stay married to him. On the finish of the six-episode season she determined to stick with Shane, who had killed resort supervisor Armond (Murray Bartlett) after he snuck into their room.
As for an excellent resort setting for Rachel to return? “There’s a number of locations on the earth I wish to go that I have not been, however I might be extra curious about what this story was,” says Daddario, who notes, “Portugal’s very in proper now.”
A handful of characters from season 1, together with Emmy winner Jennifer Coolidge’s eccentric Tanya McQuoid, Natasha Rothwell’s spa worker Belinda Lindsey, and Jon Gries’s mysterious Greg Hunt, have returned for subsequent installments.
However Daddario admits she hasn’t had the time to take a look at the newest season — set in Thailand and starring Parker Posey, Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Jason Isaacs — which aired earlier this yr.
“I’ve not turned the tv on because the delivery of my little one,” says Daddario, who welcomed a child together with her husband, producer Andrew Type, in 2024.
“I swear to God, no, it is horrible, as a result of I’ve pals who’ve produced initiatives and I have not seen a gosh darn factor. It is terrible,” continues Daddario, whose efficiency in The White Lotus earned her an Emmy nomination. “He comes and saunters up, and I do not need him sitting and watching White Lotus.”
In her new film I Want You All of the Finest, Daddario performs a North Carolina lady who takes in her nonbinary sibling (Corey Fogelmanis) after they’re kicked out of the home by their unaccepting mother and father. Daddario calls the movie an “essential story.”
