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

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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.

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00:00Congratulations on there! Thank you!

00:02What 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.

00:26Like, because I'm the biggest fan of The White Lotus.

00:29For 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 gonna be?

00:37Because sometimes a season three can get a bit, you know?

00:40And Mike's just such a genius. He's just, he's outdone himself. I think he's surpassed it.

00:45How do you feel like this compares to the first two? Because I know he said it's darker.

00:49It's darker, but I, weirdly, I'm like, from my character's perspective,

00:55like, 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,

01:05like 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's, it is definitely darker.

01:21There's more melancholy.

01:23The stakes feel very high from the get-go.

01:26There's a lot, it's like, even more tension.

01:29Like, all the things we love about White Lotus, but amplified.

01:32Exactly.

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.

01:41But, so 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, there's a depth to it and a heaviness to it.

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

02:12there's a, there's a depth and a heaviness to it.

02:15You know, it's, it's, it's going there, it goes there.

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

02:23It's spirituality.

02:24So, it's very much about, like, destiny and fate and do we have choice and free will

02:31or do we have to go with what's written for us in the stars kind of thing.

02:34Yeah.

02:35From what I've seen, you have a couple of scenes with Lisa.

02:37What was that like in her first acting role?

02:40It was so amazing to witness because she was so nervous.

02:44Yeah.

02:45She's got so much humility.

02:46She was just, like, so scared about doing that first scene with me and Walton.

02:50That was her first scene.

02:51Wow.

02:52Carry over with Lisa.

02:53And she came over.

02:54And I think, like, in the scene, it's not Chelsea smiling.

02:57It's Amy.

02:58I was, I'm literally, like, I'm just grinning at her.

03:00Because I'm like, she's so good.

03:02She's so good.

03:03Because she was so scared.

03:05And then she just absolutely nailed it.

03:07Like, smashed it.

03:08So I was so impressed by her.

03:10That's a big first scene.

03:11It's a big first scene.

03:12And she's so, like, lovely and open.

03:15And, like, she and Tame, like, their storyline is one of my favourite of the season.

03:20Like, it's so beautiful.

03:22And both of them are so amazing.

03:24Amazing.

03:25Amazing.

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