Parker Posey chats with THR at the season three premiere of 'The White Lotus' and says being on the show was like being on 'Survivor' and 'The Amazing Race.' Plus, she says that she's not sure she'll ever watch 'The White Lotus' season three.
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00:00How would you describe your character in this show?
00:02Well, I think Victoria comes into the White Lotus world in a state of grief.
00:09We don't really know that until we see her in a dream and her father's walking behind
00:14her husband and she screams and her children are running away from her and she's feeling
00:21like things could leave her and she loves her children so much that she controls them.
00:28She doesn't let them, you know that book that's really popular now, and instead she
00:34sees herself in all of her children and they represent her.
00:43She's spoiled.
00:44She's very much a woman child and a narcissist.
00:48A lot of that is due to her sensitivity and her wanting to escape, which she does through
00:55taking pills.
00:57She wishes she wasn't even on vacation, she didn't want to leave.
01:03She doesn't really know where she is, it doesn't really matter.
01:07She's with her children that are going to leave the nest soon and one of them is making
01:12a questionable choice in wanting to discover Buddhism and she thinks that's just terrible.
01:26A lot going on here.
01:28What did you think when you read these scripts?
01:30I've seen a couple, I've seen a couple.
01:33I think I gave you like a Roger and Ebert kind of thing.
01:36No, great.
01:37I loved it.
01:38Okay, good.
01:39What did you think when you read these scripts and saw what Mike kind of wanted you to do
01:42in the show?
01:44I was so excited when I read the scripts.
01:49It was a definite ride.
01:52So well written and embodied in these characters that all of these actors are going to play.
01:59I get to picture what they're going to be like when you show up and it's a totally different
02:04thing and so it's really exciting to act in a family, I'd never done that so that was
02:12really cool.
02:13And you've got a good group here that you're working with.
02:16Yeah, yeah.
02:17So it came together after the strike, it was very fast and it had the feeling of being
02:28survivor meets the amazing race meets White Lotus, like a real experience and yeah, those
02:35are like, those are precious, right?
02:39Totally.
02:40Yeah.
02:41How do you feel like the season compares to the first two that we've seen?
02:43How are you?
02:44What?
02:45How do you feel like the season compares to the first two seasons of White Lotus?
02:49Darker for sure, it seems like.
02:50You said what?
02:52Darker for sure.
02:53I don't.
02:54He's probably going to hum you down.
02:55I don't know.
02:56I haven't seen it.
02:57You haven't seen any?
02:58I haven't seen it yet.
02:59Oh, are you going to watch it tonight?
03:00No, not tonight.
03:01Okay.
03:02Did you watch the show?
03:03Exactly.
03:04You know, there's so many things when you get to play a part that is like in the White
03:12Lotus world, in this mythology, what you get to show, because it is an Americana in
03:19a way.
03:20Now we know what White Lotus means now, what it is, you know?
03:28So I loved the, I loved being a part of, you know, a character, actor in this, that was
03:39fun.
03:40Because I think these go into people's homes in a way that other genre things don't, and
03:47so they become part of the vernacular in your family and your friends, which is great.
03:52So it becomes like a certain eye on a people and people that we know, that we've seen,
03:59and we go like, oh God, you know?
04:02So it's so fun to create those people, that person.
04:07Are you going to watch this at some point, or what's your plan?
04:10I'll watch it at some point.
04:12Like, blinking in the next room, honestly, I may not watch it, you know?
04:17Could you imagine why?
04:18I just started sweating just by the question of it.
04:21It's like, I probably should, but I don't know.
04:30How's my hair holding up?
04:32Good.
04:33Okay.
04:34Well, thank you so much.
04:35I appreciate it.
04:36Nice meeting you.