Welding attacks, PO prosthesis and dispute on the set: 9 fun facts about the third season of "The White Lotus"

Waiting has an end! After almost three years of shooting is. Since February 17, a new episode of the successful series has been published on WoW every week. And while we are looking forward to the next episode impatiently, we have informed ourselves a little more about the new season (somehow we have to bridge the time) - and are upblatant fun facts overbumped that we would not have expected at all.

The third season ofThe White Lotustakes the viewers into a luxury resort to the Thai island of Ko Samui. There, Fabian, the hotel manager (played by Christian Friedel), and the rest of the staff are expecting a bunch of eccentric and wealthy guests again: a family of five, an unequal couple and three old friends who initially make a happy impression before the dazzling facade slowly starts crumbling. In addition, Spa manager Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) from the first season, which takes part in a "White Lotus" Exchange program, and other characters who promise the best entertainment. However, what you do not see in the successful series (at first glance) are these nine blatant fun facts that we have once researched and collected for them:

Originally the third season ofThe White Lotusshould not play in Thailand at all. Series finder Mike White wanted to settle in a luxury hotel in Japan, but the production costs would have been much more expensive there. Therefore decidedwithout further ado, the success series on theTo turn - especially after the Thai tourism authority offered a lucrative deal. HBO is said to have saved millions through taxes.

The "White Lotus" hotels are also available in reality. All seasons have been shot in a Four Season Resort, the production seems to have concluded an exclusive contract with the luxury hotel chain-and it is worth it if you have the exploding booking requests for theThe White LotusLook at charisma. However, the third season was not shot exclusively in the Four Seasons Resort on Ko Samui. Scenes at dinner were created, for example, in Rosewood on Phuket (the restaurant in the Four Seasons was too dark), while the spa area can be found partly in the Anantara in Phuket. The reception area was also moved to Anantara Mai Khao, the welcome scene played on a remote headland in the north of Phuket.

Already in the past seasons we wondered how Mike White, creative head behindThe White Lotus,to such a brilliant but also crazy storyline. In an interview with the magazine Time, he revealed how the idea of ​​the third season came about. When he was taken to the hospital with severe bronchitis, he was attached to an inhalator and, according to his own statement, could not sleep for two nights. When he woke up again at some point, the idea for the new season of the success series was suddenly there: "I Felt like I'm'd Done Crack." The sequel also feels like this.

Filming in Thailand was a real challenge for production and the team. The air humidity and the heat were particularly difficult to create the actors, who of course shouldn't look like they are about to be short of circulatory collapse in front of the camera. Air conditioning could not be used due to the noises, so the actors were treated with a hair dryer during short breaks to dry welding stains. The clothes were still completely sweated. In addition, there were mosquitoes and all kinds of background noises that did not make it easy for the sound team to get a good tone. According to reports, many scenes were interrupted by elephants, frogs, boats and other noise and had to be recorded again. No wonder the production lasted several months. Aimee Lou Wood revealed that she spent seven months in Thailand.

According to the background reports, some members of Cast and Crew should so -calledhave worn, which provide information about how much you move and how long you have slept. Apparently it became a small competition. Every morning Mike White is said to have read a list who did the most and who slept the most. In an interview with The Guardian, Patrick Schwarzenegger also admitted that Mike had always asked him whether he had taken enough protein and slept sufficiently.

Patrick Schwarzenegger plays inThe White LotusA spoiled boy who is actually only about sex and recognition. With his two siblings (Sam Nivola, Sarah Catherine Hook) and his parents (Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs)-he is a guest in a luxury hotel, depending on the tablet-dependent and next to the trail, which is involved in a financial scandal. Even while filming, the quintet tried to spend as much time as possible to switch to family mode. Vanity Fair told Patrick that they made everything fifth: eating, hanging, watching films. When Mike White was said to have asked him whether they are going to eat together, he rejected with the words "I eat with my family". Mike's reaction: "What the fuck's wrong with you guys?"

If you are together for so long in a confined space, you will argue. Jason Isaacs who inThe White LotusA family man plays with financial problems, told The Guardian that it was not only ahead, but also behind the cameras. Friendships and romances were closed as well as broken. He himself admits that they were part of one or the other dispute. However, if you did not tell with whom, you did not reveal.

There is a scene of the first episode that sustainably caused a conversation: Patrick Schwarzenegger and his nude recording. You can see him from behind as he runs into the bathroom and look in the mirror. The question that the network came after afterwards: Is everything real? For example, we know from Theo James from the Sicily relay that hewore. With Patrick, however, we can give "all -clear" for interested parties. Everything real!

One thing has been particularly busy. After the first episode was broadcast on WoW on February 17, there was resentment. Everywhere you complained that the popular title song was changed. Anyone who has already seen the second episode of The White Lotus knows that the Mukke becomes even more groovy, but remains in the new scheme. The new title song is actually inspired by a cat video on Tikkok and was backed up with spiritual and traditional sounds. In the beginning we were also disappointed. But after we have seen a few episodes, we have to admit: somehow we like the music quite well. Can't stay the same.