EXCLUSIVE: Once again, Mike White is assembling an eclectic ensemble cast for The White Lotus comprised by big stars, journeyman actors primed for a career resurgence, fresh faces and international discoveries — performers, sometimes accomplished in their own country, who are now getting global exposure.
The latest group of recurring cast members set for the France-set fourth season of The White Lotus includes Americans Heather Graham (They Will Kill You, Chosen Family), Rosie Perez (The Flight Attendant, Your Honor) and Ben Schnetzer (The Madison, Y: The Last Man), the Scandinavian duo of Tobias Santelmann (Detective Hole, The Last Kingdom) and Frida Gustavsson (Faithless, Vikings: Valhalla), and French actress Laura Smet (Eager Bodies, The Bridesmaid).
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Filming in France, with Château de La Messardière in Saint-Tropez rumored as a main location, the new installment of White’s social satire wrapped in a murder mystery again will follow a group of White Lotus hotel guests and employees over the span of a week.
As usual, no information about the roles are being provided. It is unclear whether Graham, Perez and Schnetzer would play guests, if Santelmann and Gustavsson would play a couple and whether Smet’s character is a hotel employee or a local tied to the storyline in a different way.
Also not clear is whether the show, which is starting production next month, will have a tie-in with the Cannes Film Festival which will be taking place a stone’s throw from where The White Lotus will be filming.
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Graham, Perez, Schnetzer, Santelmann, Gustavsson and Smet join previously announced Season 4 series regular and recurring cast members (in alphabetical order): Chloe Bennet, Sandra Bernhard, Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Dylan Ennis, Corentin Fila, Ari Graynor, Max Greenfield, Charlie Hall, Marissa Long, Alexander Ludwig, Chris Messina, AJ Michalka, Kumail Nanjiani, Jarrad Paul and Nadia Tereszkiewicz.
Written and directed by series creator White, Season 4 is executive produced by White, David Bernad and Mark Kamine.
Santelmann and Schnetzer both are on high-profile new streaming series. Santelmann plays the title role in Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole, the Norwegian crime drama which debuted on Netflix on Thursday. Schnetzer is part of the main cast of Taylor Sheridan’s latest series for Paramount+, The Madison.
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Meanwhile, Graham is on the big screen in the action comedy horror movie They Will Kill You, which opened Friday after a premiere at SXSW.
Smet, whose extensive resume includes more than 30 movies and series, is a French showbiz royalty. She the daughter of three-time César Award winner Nathalie Baye and rock and roll icon Johnny Hallyday.
With The White Lotus, Oscar-nominated Perez is returning to HBO Max where she co-starred on The Flight Attendant, a role that brought one of her four Emmy nominations. She is repped by Innovative, Strand Entertainment and Meyer and Down.
Swede Gustavsson, a former model, is best known for starring as Freydís in Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla. She is repped by Actors in Scandinavia and Hamilton Hodell.
Graham, who will next be seen in the horror film The Young People in Prime Video’s Carrie series reboot, is repped by Risa Shapiro at RMS Productions, Paradigm, and Morris Yorn, Levine.
Santelmann, a German-born Norwegian actor, is repped by Salomonsson Agency and UTA. Schnetzer is repped by Gersh, David Weber and Lon Sorenson. Smet is repped by Time Art.
