Alexandra Daddario Responds To Those Who Call Her “A Bad Actress”: “I Have An Emmy Nomination”

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After more than a decade on screen, Alexandra Daddario has a message for her critics. The Emmy Award nominee recently addressed the “most outrageous rumor” about herself “that won’t go away” despite her nod for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Season 1 of HBO‘s The White Lotus. “That I’m a bad actress.

I’m not a bad actress,” she told Elle during their drinking game ‘Thirst Trap’. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased.

Okay? Director and the writing is everything, and sometime’s I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination.

How do you think I did that?” Following her Emmy-nominated performance as newlywed journalist Rachel Patton in the show’s 2021 Hawaii-set debut season, Daddario previously told Deadline that The White Lotus creator Mike White has ideas for Rachel and husband Shane (Jake Lacy) to return for a cameo in a future season. “Shane and I would be on a boat, talking about other people, annoying everyone around us,” she explained. “Mike’s brain is always working.