It sounds to good to be true, but it wasn’t: Actors were plucked from the hell that was the pandemic and dropped into a tropical bubble, where they would end up making The White Lotus for HBO.
It would garner an astonishing 20 Emmy nominations, including one for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.Contenders TV: The Nominees — Deadline’s Complete Coverage“It all seems very surreal,” admitted star Murray Bartlett, who was joined at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees award-season event by fellow Emmy nominees Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Steve Zahn and Natasha Rothwell. “I mean, this was kind of a surreal experience from beginning to the end because we were all plucked out of Covid and whisked off to Hawaii to this kind of fever dream-type TV camp, you know?
And then, from those kind of humble beginnings to these [nomination], it was very sweet and surreal.”Added Britton: “We just had a great time on set.
We were in the most gorgeous Covid bubble you could ever possibly imagine. It was weird to be in a Covid bubble. But the greatest thing about it was that we got each other, we got that beautiful place, and we would crack each other up on set 100% of the time.
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