How did Emmys champion ‘The White Lotus’ come to be? Mike White spoke to V.F. about the intense production—and how he manufactured “a tropical anxiety attack.”
), who worries that his swollen balls indicate testicular cancer while his powerhouse wife and spoiled children blithely go about their business.
Critics sometimes dub the oddball characters in White’s shows and movies unlikeable. He says that word startles him every time. “[The characters] all have their failings. But I identify with them all in different ways because…it’s coming from me!” he cackles loudly. “Am IThe show’s opening flash-forward reveals that someone will be leaving the island in a box.“I wanted it to feel like a tropical anxiety attack,” White says of the tone he aimed for. “A little bit of blood in the mouth.
White says HBO executives had approached him in August 2020, asking if he could create a new drama with very tight parameters: something shot superfast, because so many sets had been shut down during the pandemic, and made in a single location to facilitate a COVID-friendly bubble. “It was kind of like,” he says, hearkening back to the old game show in which contestants had to name a song after hearing just a few notes.
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