White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood admits to major problem with filming new series

Aimee Lou Wood stars successful the 3rd bid of The White Lotus, which is acceptable astatine a luxurious edifice successful Thailand, but the Sex Education histrion reveals it wasn't arsenic glamorous arsenic it sounds

Aimee Lou Wood stepped retired of her comfortableness portion and upped sticks to Thailand for 7 months successful bid to movie the caller bid of The White Lotus.

The Sex Education histrion admits that her travels usually lone instrumentality her arsenic acold arsenic the West Country, but the accidental to look successful the 3rd bid of the hotel-set acheronian drama play was excessively bully to miss. “I’m 1 of the slightest adventurous radical successful the world,” she says. “My adventures are to places similar Cornwall and Glastonbury. But having this occupation means that I was pushed to permission my comfortableness zone, which is bully for me.”

“It was truthful beautiful, beyond beautiful, similar thing I’ve ever seen before. It was truthful hard to adjacent process and fathom that it was real. I would aftermath up, unfastened my curtains and spot existent paradise,” Aimee adds. “I’m truthful grateful due to the fact that I astir apt ne'er would person taken myself to Thailand, and I would person missed retired connected an acquisition that was truthful special. I’m truthful gladsome that I got this occupation and had this experience, due to the fact that it forces maine to research more, and I request a spot of forcing.”

Aimee was a immense instrumentality of the archetypal 2 bid of the show. “I americium an implicit ace fan,” she laughs. “I was ever wondering wherever I could acceptable into the White Lotus satellite due to the fact that I wanted to beryllium successful it. And past I got the audition [to play] Chelsea, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, this really could beryllium it!’ But I was truthful scared, due to the fact that I’d ne'er had the acquisition of auditioning for thing that I was already a instrumentality of. I did my audition, past a mates of days later, I was called back, and the time aft that, I recovered out."

“If it had stretched implicit a agelong magnitude of time, I would person gone mad. It was 1 of the astir surreal moments of my beingness – I was retired with my friends, I went to the loo, checked my telephone and determination was a message. I’d got the part. It was the champion infinitesimal ever.”

Now, successful the latest bid exploring the lives of unit and guests astatine the White Lotus, Aimee stars arsenic Chelsea, a young pistillate from Manchester who arrives astatine the Thai edifice with her older American boyfriend, Rick, played by Fallout ’s Walton Goggins. The different guests see a trio of agelong clip friends connected a girls’ travel (played by Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan) and a household led by parents Timothy and Victoria (Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey).

The formed took up residence astatine the Four Seasons hotel, which doubled arsenic the White Lotus, surviving astatine the spot wherever they were filming for fractional of past year. And according to Aimee, it made for an unusual experience.

“The negative, which besides makes it truthful bully I think, is the claustrophobic quality of surviving wherever you’re filming,” she explains. “There’s nary separation. Usually erstwhile you’re filming away, you get successful a car astatine the extremity and you spell location to your ain space, whereas that is not the lawsuit with The White Lotus. It’s 7 months of surviving connected a set. It feels precisely similar The Truman Show.”

She explains that portion it makes filming thing of a challenge, it is successful keeping with amusement creator Mike White’s imaginativeness for the series. “Mike draws truthful overmuch of his inspiration from world TV and a batch of it leaks in. He loves
that benignant of documentary feel,” Aimee says. “I deliberation it helps the amusement that everyone is successful specified adjacent proximity and you can’t escape. It means you marque the deepest connections.”

There is simply a downside, however. “The flip broadside of the coin is determination is simply a spot of a nonaccomplishment of self,” she admits. “At 1 point, I was having my hairsbreadth done and the stylist asked halfway through, ‘Am I chatting to Aimee oregon Chelsea?’ and I said, ‘I don’t adjacent cognize immoderate more.’ You go a White Lotus impermanent – due to the fact that you are surviving determination – truthful the lines get truthful blurred. I didn’t adjacent cognize who I was, I deliberation I was saying immoderate of my lines arsenic myself, it was each getting truthful confused. But I deliberation that is portion of what makes the amusement truthful great, truthful it’s a affirmative and a antagonistic astatine the aforesaid time.”

Aimee, 30, describes her character, Chelsea, arsenic a “misfit” who isn’t a emblematic White Lotus guest. While noting that filming the meal and meal scenes with Walton Goggins were among her favourite moments, she besides loved a country successful the archetypal occurrence wherever her quality strikes up a relationship with a unusual pistillate astatine the edifice bar.

“That’s precise me,” she says. “I ever person the imagination that this vacation relationship volition transportation connected for ever. But that’s the happening with vacation friends, isn’t it? It’s determination for a time, but erstwhile you effort to transportation it into the existent world, it doesn’t work.

“I emotion the mode Chelsea conscionable sees this girl, and she’s like, ‘We’re gonna beryllium mates.’ She is perfectly determined to marque this chill miss her friend, and I emotion that astir her.”

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