How The White Lotus Nails the Ugly Truth About Female Friendship
glamour.comof The White Lotus, creator Mike White has given us dysfunctional families, equally dysfunctional couples, and doomed singles (RIP Tanya McQuoid), but it wasn't until on February 16 that we got .
And not shockingly, the storyline with Laurie (), Jaclyn (), and Kate () is far and away the most fascinating the series has produced."I had this idea of three friends that are almost interchangeable at the beginning,” White says. “They're all blondes.
They all have this voluble, excitable energy and then you start to see how they're all just slightly different and the differences start to really unravel their time there together.”Case in point: from the beginning, we learn that Laurie, Jaclyn and Kate have been childhood besties since the age of nine; Jaclyn has gone on to become a famous Hollywood actress with a hot husband 10 years her junior; Laurie is a New York-based attorney, divorced and raising a difficult teen; and Kate now resides in Austin, Texas with her prominent husband, where she may or may not be eating the right foods for a healthy BMI.
They've been separated by miles, but we're made to believe their bond is as strong as ever.Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb in The White Lotus S3.To drive that point home, they shower each other with “I love you's,” backhanded-but-sweet (I guess?) compliments, and surface-level exchanges.
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