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Woody Harrelson has shared why he turned down a role on The White Lotus season three, and it transpires it wasn’t about the money.

Woody Harrelson didn’t check into “The White Lotus” for good reason.The actor, 63, revealed he was going to star in the third season of the HBO drama but ultimately had to turn it down.“I was set to do ‘White Lotus’ and very excited,” Harrelson told The Daily Beast on Friday. “Unfortunately, their production schedule shifted and conflicted with a pre-planned family vacation, forcing me to make an extremely hard decision.”“He was set to do the show and they moved the date,” his reps added.

Meghan McCain was triggered by The White Lotus star Carrie Coon after comments about the conservative character on the HBO series.

Nintendo is delaying the long-awaited pre-order date for its new Switch 2 video game device, citing uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

supersized Season 3 finale. Who is floating face-down in the hotel pond? Who fired those gunshots heard at the beginning of the season? Will Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) accept Greg’s (Jon Gries) offer? Will Timothy (Jason Isaacs) succumb to the darkness, taking his wife Victoria (Parker Posey) or son Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) with him? Will Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) be able to fulfill her dream of staying in Thailand, and will her brother Lochlan (Sam Nivola) successfully latch on? Will Sritala’s (Lek Patravadi) bodyguards come after Rick (Walton Goggins) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) after he aggressively accosted her husband, Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn)? Will Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) confront the Russians after figuring out they were behind the hotel heist, and will he prove himself to Mook (Lalisa Manoban, a.k.a.

Season 3 of “The White Lotus” caused him to reflect on that character. “I called up Tom Kapinos, I did ‘Califonication,’ with him,” he said, referring to the show’s creator.“And I was like, ‘It feels like Hank Moody would have done that Sam Rockwell monologue. It feels like something he would have done, completely.’ He was like, ‘Oh yeah, seems like people are talking like that again.’”According to Duchovny, that type of bawdy TV monologue seemed to go out of style for a few years.

“The White Lotus” you have to play by the rules.Despite the cast of the HBO drama ranging from veteran actors to rising stars, the paycheck is equal for each person. “Everyone is treated the same on ‘The White Lotus,'” one of the show’s producers, David Bernad, told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.

The White Lotus” might be censored in certain countries. But a much less obvious scene was altered on third-party streaming services in India, while the threesome involving two brothers remained intact. It’s actually the opening scene that was altered, in which Belinda’s son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) wades into a pond after hearing gunshots at the hotel.

U.S. stock markets plummeted after the opening bell Thursday, as investors registered shock at President Donald Trump‘s sweeping retaliatory tariffs.

HBO show, this time on the picturesque island of Koh Samui in Thailand. With the updated resort location and its very stylish visitors comes a whole season’s worth of luxe swimsuits. For Season 3, costume designer Alex Bovaird pulled pieces from global luxury houses, local designers and vintage racks.

One of the makeup artists on The White Lotus season three is revealing a product she used on cast members on the set, and she says it is one of her favorites from the season.

Gracie Abrams has released a new live recording of an unreleased track, ‘Death Wish’ – check it out below.Last month (March 6), Abrams took over the O2 Arena in London, where she debuted an unreleased track, ‘Death Wish’. The track was written about a friend’s experience “dating a mega-narcissist”.Yesterday night (April 1), Abrams released the recording of the O2 Arena performance, which marks the only time she’s played the track thus far.

The time for sitting back and relaxing has come and gone as Season 3 of The White Lotus has unfolded with all episodes barring the much-anticipated finale, the eighth installment of the Thailand-set third season, which will be nearly 90 minutes long.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Season three of The White Lotus has brought no shortage of memes and merch, but it’s also inspired online discussions about the characters’ makeup.

Ethan Shanfeld Get ready for a supersized “White Lotus” finale. The eighth and final installment of the vacation dramedy’s third season will span 90 minutes, according to the HBO schedule, marking the longest episode of the series to date.

In June of 2018, The Wild Boars, a teenage Thai football team, went into the labyrinthine caves of Tham Luang on a team-building exercise, as they had apparently done several times before. It was supposed to take an hour or so, as it usually did. This time, though, it rained, flooding the caves, and the rain didn’t stop until all 12 players and their coach were royally stranded. The next 18 days kept the world on tenterhooks, and the astonishing outcome fueled a whole host of documentaries plus a Ron Howard Netflix drama, Thirteen Lives, starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max. If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother, as Freud would say. The Austrian shrink would’ve loved this week’s episode of “The White Lotus,” the penultimate of a third season filled with existential dread, taboo sex and, unfortunately for the hotel’s guests, not enough drunken pool days in Thailand.

Naman Ramachandran “The Last Wife” director Victor Vũ’s Vietnamese supernatural thriller “Detective Kien: The Headless Horror” has locked down international distribution deals across major global territories following its unveiling at Hong Kong FilMart 2025. Mockingbird Pictures, handling international sales for the period horror-mystery, confirmed distribution partnerships with 3388 Films (North America), Infinity Group (Australia and New Zealand), MovieCloud (Taiwan), and Lotte Cultureworks (Korea).

The White Lotus star Carrie Coon has revealed that the show had cut a mention of her character’s non-binary child after the election of US president Donald Trump.In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Coon addressed a scene from its latest season, which showed Coon’s Laurie discussing politics with childhood friends Kate (played by Leslie Bibb) and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) while on vacation in Thailand – the scene would reveal the political friction they never knew they had, particularly between Coon’s liberal character and Bibb’s right-leaning one.Coon revealed in the interview that the scene was originally meant to give more context to Laurie’s home life.“You originally found out that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans, and going by they/them,” she said.“You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting.” It was added to intensify the friction between Laurie and Kate, whose support for Donald Trump would imply endorsing his policies, which has included one that only recognises “two genders”.“It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question [in episode 3] of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world,” Coon explained.She then added that the season was written before Trump’s election, and the event affected the way the show’s creator Mike White wanted to approach the scene.“Considering the way the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural war against transgender people even more since then, when the time came to cut the episode down, Mike felt that the scene was so small and the topic so big that

Kerry Katona has been enjoying Thai bliss over recent weeks during her trip to Koh Samui, but reveals she has been left shaken following a terrifying earthqauke in nearby Bangkok. While the former Atomic Kitten star, 44, is back home in the UK now, she has revealed in her weekly column that she was meant to be in Bangkok on the day of the earthquake, but made a last minute decision to return home early. Elsewhere in the column, Kerry shares her thoughts on Dancing On Ice being axed from ITV and details how she spent her Mother's Day weekend...

Just as the fictional Logan Roy once decried his children as “not serious people,” so too did John Oliver blast President Donald Trump‘s administration as woefully incompetent, especially in the wake of the Signal group chat leak, revealed by a bombshell report in The Atlantic last week.