Aimee Lou Wood on Working With Lisa in 'The White Lotus' Season 3: "She Absolutely Nailed It" | THR Video - video Dailymotion

The Hollywood Reporter

Aimee Lou Wood shares her reaction with THR on the first time she read the script for 'The White Lotus' season three at the show's premiere. Plus, she dishes on what it was like to work with Lisa from BLACKPINK in her first acting scene ever.

Transcript

00:00Congratulations on that!

00:02Thank you!

00:03What did you think when you first read these scripts?

00:05I couldn't believe that I had the scripts of The White Lotus Season 3 in my inbox, on my Gmail.

00:11I was like, this is like the most confidential, like, top secret information.

00:19And I have it all in my thing. And then I read it, and I was like, Mike, you've done it again.

00:24You've done it again. You have topped it somehow.

00:27I'm the biggest fan of The White Lotus. For the first two seasons, I'm like a devout, like, I'm obsessed with it.

00:34So I was also nervous reading them, because I was like, what's three going to be?

00:38Because sometimes a season three can get a bit, you know.

00:41And Mike's just such a genius. He's just, he's outdone himself. I think he's surpassed it.

00:46How do you feel like this compares to the first two? Because I know he said it's darker.

00:50It's darker, but weirdly, I'm like, from my character's perspective, Mike is so sharp and acerbic in his writing.

01:01And that's what we love about it, because he's so good at nailing everyone's worst bits and the worst parts of humanity.

01:07But he's actually a very hopeful, enthusiastic, playful, optimistic person.

01:12And I feel like he's expressed that bit of himself through Chelsea.

01:15So it felt really cool to, like, bring maybe some of the hope to the show.

01:19So I think it is definitely darker. There's more melancholy. The stakes feel very high from the get-go.

01:27There's a lot, it's like even more tension, like all the things we love about White Lotus, but amplified.

01:33But then I do think there's this added layer of, like, optimism.

01:37But I think that maybe is because I play Chelsea, who is so optimistic.

01:41So when I watched it back, I was like, oh, my God, this is really, really tense and dark.

01:47And everyone's so greedy and their egos.

01:51But I was just in my own little, like, wow, the White Lotus, wow, wow, I'm so happy to be here.

01:56So, yeah, I think it is, there's a depth to it and a heaviness to it.

02:03Like, I watched episode five last night and I was left like, oh, that really, like, even in the, like, fun moments,

02:12there's a depth and a heaviness to it. You know, it's going there. It goes there.

02:18He's like, I'm going to take it to the absolute, because it's like this season's theme is life and death.

02:23It's spirituality. So it's very much about, like, destiny and fate.

02:30And do we have choice and free will or do we have to go with what's written for us in the stars kind of thing?

02:35Yeah.

02:36From what I've seen, you have a couple of scenes with Lisa. What was that like in her first acting role?

02:41It was so amazing to witness because she was so nervous.

02:45She's got so much humility.

02:47She was just, like, so scared about doing that first scene with me and Walt and that was her first scene.

02:52And she came over and I think, like, in the scene, it's not Chelsea smiling, it's Amy.

02:58I'm literally, like, I'm just grinning at her because I'm like, she's so good.

03:02She's so good because she was so scared.

03:05And then she just absolutely nailed it, like, smashed it.

03:08So I was so impressed by her.

03:11It's a big first scene.

03:12It's a big first scene and she's so, like, lovely and open.

03:16And, like, she and Tame, like, their storyline is one of my favorite of the season.

03:20Like, it's so beautiful and both of them are so amazing.

03:28For more information visit www.FEMA.gov

Aimee Lou Wood on Working With Lisa in 'The White Lotus' Season 3: "She Absolutely Nailed It" | THR Video

Category

Transcript

Recommended