Natasha Rothwell Credits ‘The White Lotus’ For Proving She “Can Be Serious”
deadline.comAs Natasha Rothwell books her return to The White Lotus for Season 3, she’s on a whole different journey this time around. The How to Die Alone star explained how her 2021 role on Mike White‘s HBO anthology series helped pave the way for her new comedy series, which she also created, premiering Friday on Hulu. “Well, my true north was authenticity.
We are nuanced, complicated people, and I wanted the character to experience and express the full range of emotion because that’s life,” she explained to The A.V.
Club. “To try to categorize it is so Hollywood. I’ve been a victim of that because before it was just like, ‘She’s Kelly from Insecure, she can’t be serious.’ And then I played Belinda in The White Lotus and everyone’s like, ‘She can be serious,'” added Rothwell. “We can do it all; we have the capacity.
It was important to me to honor the fullness and complexity of the human experience, especially allowing someone who looks like me to have those emotions and feelings on-screen unapologetically.” After debuting on Season 1 of The White Lotus as Belinda Lindsey, the resort’s spa manager, Rothwell reprises the role for the Thailand-set third season, which premieres on HBO in 2025. “I love working with Mike White.
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