Mike White isn’t taking the White Lotus composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer’s exit flippantly.
The 51-year-old composed the title theme for seasons 1, 2 and three of the hit HBO sequence, however revealed to the New York Occasions final week that he’d stop the present amid complaints from “livid” followers over season 3’s new theme.
In response, White, 54, instructed The Hollywood Reporter that he does not assume the composer “revered me” as he slammed his “PR marketing campaign about him leaving the present” and stated that de Veer simply “desires individuals to know that he’s edgy and darkish.”
Whereas chatting with the Occasions, de Veer claimed White “wasn’t pleased” about his concept to incorporate an alternate minimize of the present’s authentic theme tune within the season and by that time, they’d “already had our final combat eternally.” In response, White instructed THR that they “by no means actually even fought.”
“He says we feuded. I don’t assume I ever had a combat with him — apart from perhaps some emails,” White stated. “It was principally me giving him notes. I don’t assume he appreciated to undergo the method of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, as a result of he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a workforce participant and that he needed to do it his means.”
White stated he was “thrown” by the composer’s Occasions interview, which he claimed was a transfer to “s— on me and the present three days earlier than the finale,” calling it “kinda a bitch transfer.”
White stated that de Veer “would all the time take a look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I used to be a chimp or one thing” when it got here to conferences about season 3’s theme — and by that time, the composer had “received Emmys and he had his tune go viral.”
“He didn’t wish to undergo the method with me, he didn’t wish to go to classes,” White instructed THR. “You’re the genius behind this factor. Why stop successful present since you obtained some notes and a few variations? Simply work it out.”
In White’s phrases, de Veer is “very gifted” however he was not going to kiss his “a– so laborious to simply get him to — to steer that horse to water.”
His parting message to the composer was: “Have enjoyable with no matter you’re doing subsequent.”
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The season 3 finale of The White Lotus is now streaming on Max.
