Mike White's already got a few ideas of where TheWhiteLotus will be set in season three.
She's having her Stella moment with these cool, rich gay guys; they turn out to be bad. To me it read a bit, almost like a commentary on that sort of symbiotic relationship between a certain kind of woman and a certain kind of gay guy. Was that in your mind at all when you were doing the writing?
Throughout the season, there's a lot of sense of the potential for male violence against women. This idea that heterosexual men and women are in a kind of perpetual state of friction, and that there's like this eternal power struggle and the idea that gay guys are potentially a solace or refuge from that drama.
"The gays are trying to murder me," is a phrase I've said a million times as a gay person. When you conceptualized this with Jennifer—knowing that gay people just love Jennifer Coolidge and that she sort of became a gay icon because of the first season of theYeah, there was a movie that had come out right before I started writing that Jennifer was in, and there was].
So obviously Tanya was brought in from the first season, but you had to fill out everything around her with all of these new characters. How did you start building that? There seems to be some stuff here and there that is reacting to online discourse or just sort of cultural conversation over the last few years and some that just feel totally their own entire unique creation.
The first season wasn't this, but I feel like you do a hotel show, you just kind of imagine a Neil Simon [play]—the bedroom farce aspect of it. So, I was just feeling like I should really embrace that and do that in a way that maybe feels a little bit more… dangerous? Or that it's not just a light farce. And I love stuff that's about comparative anxiety. So having two couples felt like a fun one.
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