White Lotus Season 2 - Interview with Mike White - Still Watching Bonus Episode
Still Watching
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson and Chris Murphy devoured all of the second season of The White Lotus on HBO, and are wrapping up the year with an interview with series creator, writer, and director of the show: Mike White!
This week, find out which one of the story lines was hardest to write, Jennifer Coolidge and the murderous gays, how White decided on the themes of the second season and what to expect in the future when The White Lotus ventures into a third season!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special postseason bonus episode of still watching the White Lotus. |
| 0:12.3 | The television podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Chris Murphy. |
| 0:15.8 | And I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:17.4 | We're here to share our conversation with the White Lotus's creator, director, writer, |
| 0:21.6 | all-around mastermind Mike White, which is a real thrill. |
| 0:25.1 | He is such a sharp, funny guy and has made such a sharp, funny, sad, spooky, whatever |
| 0:32.1 | show. |
| 0:33.1 | It's a sexy, carnal, fantastic, and he had a lot of insights to share, and it's a big |
| 0:39.1 | fan of one of my co-hosts. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, well, well. |
| 0:42.1 | We don't have to get into that. |
| 0:43.1 | But anyway, so we're going to hear that first and then afterward, Chris and I will kind |
| 0:46.1 | of reconvene, have some final thoughts, and then that'll be it for this season. |
| 0:50.9 | So let's go to Mike now. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, we have the distinct pleasure now. |
| 0:59.0 | We've been waiting all season. |
| 1:00.9 | We are on the line with the mastermind behind the White Lotus, Mike White, Mike Hello. |
| 1:05.1 | Hey. |
| 1:06.1 | So there's so much to talk about, but I think we have to address the big matter up front. |
| 1:11.2 | Our question is, when did you know what Tanya's fate would be? |
| 1:15.0 | Is that how this season started in your mind, or did you arrive there later on? |
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