.McHenryJD visited the set of HBO's 'White Lotus' season two, which writer, director, and creator Mike White describes as “a bedroom farce with teeth'
For the second season, White persuaded the network to send him to Italy. In addition to the young lovers, there are three generations of Italian American men traveling back to their ancestral country; season one’s blowsy, self-deluded, yet fragile heiress, Tanya McQuoid , and her dissatisfied assistant; and two young Italian women who get caught up in everyone’s business.
They settled on the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace nestled among the cliffs of Taormina, a resort town in the foothills of Mt. Etna that overlooks the wine-dark Ionian Sea. The hotel would be closed for the winter, so they could start filming during the off-season. And the place didn’t lack personality, as some mega-resorts they visited did. The San Domenico Palace was built within a renovated convent near an ancient Greek amphitheater, and according to the cast, it’s definitely haunted.
“I didn’t want to get into colonialism,” he explains, “because I felt we did that in the first season.” I point out that the story of theis about both sexual politics and colonialism: a virtuous, fair-skinned woman killing a foreign invader. Many versions of the Moor’s head depict him as a dark-skinned caricature, including earrings made by Dolce & Gabbana in 2012. Sex, race, and colonial constructs of power are entangled, and perhaps the show could, or would inevitably, deal with all three.
Either way, Harper isn’t as much of a normie as she imagines herself to be once she gets to Sicily and starts hanging out with Cameron Babcock . Cameron flirts with Harper, though it’s hard to tell whether he’s truly attracted to her or engaging in mind games to enliven his marriage to Daphne. Both Plaza and Sharpe are biracial, while James and Fahy are white.
Togetherness proves difficult across the three generations of men, each of whom has a different opinion on how males should behave in modern society. Abraham’s character, Bert, takes things to an old-fashionedly sexist extreme. The actor compares playing Bert to his experience of playing Bottom in the Public Theater’s“Most actors don’t want to let the audience think they’re buffoons, so they hold back,” Abraham says. “Mike gave me permission to be an asshole.
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