The guests for Season Three of “The White Lotus” are starting to arrive.
HBO confirmed in January (after Variety reported in 2023) that the highly anticipated third installment of the comedy series would take place in Thailand and had shared bits of casting news since then. Now, on Dec. 16, HBO dropped a first full-length trailer, in which viewers can glimpse this new group of vacationers misbehaving. It also announced a release date for Feb. 16.
In tradition with the series, Season Three features a brand-new location with a brand-new cast (with one familiar face), following Season One in Hawaii and Season Two in Sicily, Italy.
Some of the new actors in the Season Three cast includes Blackpink member Lisa, who appears under her given name, Lalisa Manobal, as well as Carrie Coon and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Who else is in the “White Lotus” Season Three cast? Here’s what to know.
Who is in the ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 cast?
On Jan. 5, HBO announced the first slate of newcomers: Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Parker Posey and Tayme Thapthimthong.
In addition to Manobal, Coon and Schwarzenegger, HBO said in a Dec. 16 release that Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Natasha Rothwell, Aimee Lou Wood are also part of the marquee cast. More featured performers include Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Scott Glenn, Julian Kostov, Charlotte Le Bon, Morgana O’Reilly and Shalini Peiris.
Which character is returning for ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3?
The first cast member confirmed to star in “The White Lotus” Season Three is a familiar face, continuing the series’ pattern of bringing back one character from a past season.
In April 2023, TODAY.com confirmed Natasha Rothwell, who played spa manager Belinda in Season One, would return. Belinda became a fan favorite for her bewildering encounters with Jennifer Coolidge’s character, Tanya, during Season One.
Coolidge and Jon Gries were the only cast members to appear in both Season One and Season Two, though it is very unlikely Coolidge’s character will make another appearance due to her fate in the Season Two finale. (Coolidge declared her character “definitely dead” in her Jan. 15 speech for winning the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama series.)
Coolidge said during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series in June 2023 she hoped the show’s creator, Mike White, continues Gries’ character Greg’s journey in the series.
“My hope for (co-star) Jon (Gries) is that he’s not finished with Greg,” Coolidge said. “I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don’t know, end up in a meat-grinding machine.”
Gries has not been confirmed to appear in Season Three, leaving fans to keep an eye out for another appearance from Greg — and as White told Entertainment Weekly last year, maybe some other characters.
“It would be easy to just be full-on anthology, but I think it’s more fun to have little threads through the show,” he said. “If the show goes on for a couple of seasons, it would be fun to have an all-star season.”
When is the ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 release date?
“The White Lotus” Season Three will debut Sunday, Feb. 16, HBO revealed Dec. 16.