Aubrey Plaza is just like Us and forgets the password to her favorite streaming service, even if she’s the star of one of the most popular shows.
‘I still haven’t done that [watched my season of The White Lotus]but i’m going,” plaza, 40, admitted during an interview with The Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday, August 27. “To be honest, I had trouble accessing my HBO Max account when I originally tried to watch it. I couldn’t figure out the password and usually when I can’t figure out the passwords I give up. I just can’t handle things like this.”
Plaza noted that she would “love to get a DVD” of the hit series, but until now that hasn’t been an option. “They don’t send DVD sets anymore,” she said, adding, “I ask them every time.”
The actress has been speaking about her dissatisfaction with streaming platforms for some time. She told me Vanity fair in May 2023 that she often gets “really angry” when she has to figure out how to watch new episodes.
Mike White’s anthology series The White Lotus returns for another star-studded season. “Think through [the show’s] humble, run-and-gun origins as a contained pandemic production, it is impossible not to be impressed by the way Mike orchestrated one of the most talked-about and most critically acclaimed shows,” said Executive Vice President of HBO Programming, Francesca Orsi , to Variety in […]
‘I tried to look Top chef Season 20. Couldn’t figure out how to get Hulu + Live. I give up! I can’t. I just can’t do it,” Plaza joked at the time. Sharing an alternative approach to watching new content, she adds, “And so what I like to do is go to iTunes and buy old movies. Or I’ll go to iTunes and just buy the whole thing Sopranos series, and then my husband will say, “You can literally watch that for free on HBO Max.”
With any luck, Plaza’s husband… Jeff Baenawill be able to help her tune into her season of The White Lotuswhich premiered in October 2022. The show returned with a largely brand new cast from Season 1, with Plaza playing Harper, an uptight lawyer married to wealthy but naive businessman Ethan (Willem Sharp).
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Stefano Delìa/HBO MaxIn her interview with the Wall Street Journaltold Plaza what she is most connected to White Lotus character more than any of her other past roles. “I mean in many ways – not in all ways,” she said. “She was a lawyer, like my mother, and there were some connections there.”
The Parks and recreation alum shared that when channeling Harper, she focused on two components: convincing herself it was a matter of “survival” and eating like she was on a real Italian vacation.
“So much linguine and mussels,” she recalled of her time abroad, joking that White “required” the cast to consume large amounts of pasta as “a kind of psychological conditioning.”
Plaza will get a break from the linguine for season 3, as HBO announced in January Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul And Tayme Thapthimthong will also star in the new episode Natasha Rothwellwho returns from season 1 as spa manager Belinda.
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Although further details about the plot have been kept under wraps, Rothwell revealed in December 2023 that she knows what will happen in the new episodes, which will be set in Thailand. “I will say that I have read all the scripts and people are in for a treat. It’s bigger than ever,” she said Entertainment tonight. “Strap yourselves in.”
White, meanwhile, was revealed in Max’s Unpack S2 E7 December 2023 special that the third episode may focus on “death and Eastern religion and spirituality.”
“The first season focused on money, and the second season was about sex,” he said. “I think the third season might be a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.
