At the premiere of 'The White Lotus' season three, Tayme Thapthimthong opens up about what it was like to share so many scenes with Lisa from BLACKPINK. Plus, he tells THR how he bonded with his castmates on set.
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00:00Congratulations on this.
00:01So what did you think when you first read Mike White's scripts?
00:04Oh man, it was amazing.
00:07Because I usually don't even read that much.
00:09I usually just watch a lot of movies and TV shows.
00:13So this is one of the first things that I read and it was just, I couldn't put it down.
00:19You know, I put it down for maybe dinner and then I couldn't wait to pick it back up and read it, you know, in bed.
00:26It was just such a well-written show.
00:28All the characters have such good roles in this series.
00:36So yeah, I can't wait for you guys to watch it, really.
00:38Very exciting.
00:39And Mike said that this season is darker than the past two.
00:42How do you feel like that kind of manifests?
00:44Darker? Yeah, I guess it does have a...
00:47Yeah, I guess it is a little darker, yes.
00:51Yeah, but also set in a very beautiful tropical island.
00:57So it really brings like a nice mix of, you know, dark but also just like jolly and sort of feel of freedom, you know, on that island.
01:08And you share a lot of scenes with Lisa.
01:10What was that like kind of working with her on her first acting role?
01:14It was amazing, to say the least.
01:16Because, you know, I know how... who she is before getting on this show.
01:22And for her to sort of work with me and, you know, sort of...
01:26We got to know each other so well on an offset.
01:29Because she really made the effort to sort of, you know, give me a call and like,
01:33Oh, you want to come have lunch? You want to have a dinner?
01:35Do you want to go on a boat trip tomorrow?
01:37We got the day off.
01:39Because our schedules were pretty much the same.
01:42And with other cast, you know, when we worked, they would be off, you know.
01:46So most of the time was spent with her until it was the weekends.
01:51And then we'd get everyone together and we'd do a bit of karaoke.
01:54Or we'd do like a nice dinner party.
01:57So it was amazing.
01:58And she really helped me out with the Thai dialogue quite a lot, yeah.
02:03I was going to say, the cast bonding on this seems like it would be amazing.
02:06A lot of activities it seems like you guys could get up to.
02:08What was that?
02:09What did you guys kind of check off the list?
02:11Well, you know, it was a lot of water sports.
02:13Because it was boiling when we were there.
02:15Especially during the months of April and May.
02:20Where it's like the hottest time in Thailand.
02:22And, you know, it was really fun taking some of the cast out and doing the Songkran Festival.
02:28I think we were on Phuket at that point.
02:31Not Samui, but Phuket had, you know, obviously lots of these streets
02:38that are just packed with water guns and water fights.
02:41So it was really nice to experience that with the cast.
02:44Yeah, yeah.