‘The White Lotus’ Star Natasha Rothwell Returns!

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Natasha Rothwell can be a bit defensive when it comes to her character on ‘The White Lotus.’ The actress, who just scored her second Emmy nomination for the hit HBO show, may have struggled at first to understand why Belinda did what she did at the end of Season 3. But she also believes she “deserves” what comes to her and gets why she ultimately decided to “f— the morality.” In her return to the podcast, Rothwell opens up about how she used her own past struggles with money to relate to her character on the show. As a former SNL writer herself, she reacts to the “White Potus” sketch that caused an uproar and frustrated her castmate Aimee Lou Wood. Rothwell also discusses how another co-star, Jason Isaacs, helped fuel rumors on real-life drama between cast members, reflects on the disappointing cancellation of her Hulu show ‘How to Die Alone,’ and explains why she has spent nearly a decade tweeting “you are trash” at Donald Trump every single day.

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0:00.0	This is The Last Laugh.
0:05.5	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am so thrilled to welcome back on this podcast, a multi-talented actor and writer you may know from comedy shows like Insecure and her Emmy-nominated dramatic performance on The White Lotus.
0:21.1	Natasha Rothwell, welcome back to The Last Laugh.
0:23.8	Thank you for having me.
0:25.5	So great to have you here.
0:26.8	Yeah, congrats on your second Emmy nomination for playing Belinda.
0:30.6	Can you believe it?
0:31.2	Thank you.
0:31.6	No.
0:33.6	I'm so over the moon.
0:35.4	It's, yeah, completely unexpected. And I'm just, yeah, I've been on cloud
0:41.5	nine since I've heard. As with, as has been the case with the show, you guys get so many
0:46.5	nominations that you're once again up against several of your own co-stars. Yeah. Carrie Coon,
0:52.5	Parker Posey, Amy Lou Wood.
0:54.5	You don't have Jennifer Coolidge to contend with this time.
0:57.2	So are you feeling better about that?
0:59.6	Well, what's so funny is I, and it sounds so, I don't know, Pollyanna to say, but I've already won.
1:06.5	Like I get to be in the White Lotus family.
1:09.3	I have a nomination.
1:10.9	And, yeah, my peers think it worthy of nomination.
1:15.5	I'm on cloud nine.
1:16.5	So to me, I am quite competitive.
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