Natasha: I did not audition. That is the distinction between season one White Lotus and season three White Lotus. [Filming season one], nobody knew what it was, and we had been capturing pandemic, pre-vaccination, so we’re all simply joyful to be working. We did not understand it was going to show into what it’s now. I do not assume I may get an audition for it now, so I am glad I bought in once I did.
Aimee [to Natasha]: While you learn the [season one] script, had been you want, “Oh, shit, this could possibly be actually good”?
Natasha: I did, however I believe for me, a lot of Belinda is that this quiet inside battle, and a lot of what I believe made the position what it’s is the way it was shot. Particularly in season one, the visible storytelling was distinctive, and Mike [White, The White Lotus creator and director] is so good with that. It’s very totally different now, now it is like White Lotus capitalised.
Aimee: Yeah, and that is a bit scary as effectively, is not it?
Natasha: Yeah.
Aimee: It is the primary time I’ve ever been in one thing that I am a fan of already, and also you simply need to neglect about it, do not you? It’s important to flip up. And it is fairly useful as a result of my character does not actually know what The White Lotus is, so I’ve to only be like, “Nicely, Chelsea does not know, so Aimee cannot know.” Chelsea does not know what the resort is, and it sort of helped me not take into consideration the present, really.
Natasha: I really like that.
GLAMOUR: Natasha, do you’re feeling like your character Belinda is extra empowered this season?
Natasha: I believe this season Belinda is extra empowered. I believe we additionally see her as a visitor at The White Lotus, and I believe that a lot of her introduction to that world was by means of hospitality. And so we get to see her as an individual exterior of the work masks, and we get to see her unmask in that approach, which is admittedly cool.
GLAMOUR: Aimee, it looks like your character Chelsea has a little bit of a poisonous associate and relationship. What was that wish to play for you, and why was that position interesting to you?
Aimee: So the factor that I really like about Chelsea is that she’s positively on this fairly poisonous dynamic, most likely fairly dysfunctional, however I needed to not see it from that angle in any respect, as a result of to her she’s romantic with a capital R, and to her it’s real love. So I simply need to play it from that angle, and that was really very liberating, as a result of I really like Esther Perel, I really like speaking about the right way to make relationships wholesome and communicative and secure. And so it is fairly enjoyable to go for a short while, delete all that…
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