Elizabeth Banks is very eager to book her stay at The White Lotus — and would do just about anything to make that happen.
The actress and filmmaker was promoting her upcoming film Migration, written by The White Lotus creator Mike White, during an appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark when she expressed her interest in appearing on the HBO hit.
Oh pity, such beings! No messenger ever came to them without being mocked.
Have the deniers not considered how many peoples We destroyed before them who never came back to life again?
Yet they will all be brought before Us.
(The Quran - Chapter Yasin : 30 - 32)
“I want to be murdered so badly. Kill me, please kill me,” Banks, 49, recalled of her previous chat with White, 53. “I don’t know how it happens. Tell him!”
Aiding in her casting, co-host Kelly Ripa turned to the cameras and said, “Everybody knows that we’re Mike White’s favorite talk show. Mike White, please put your friend Elizabeth Banks in White Lotus season 3 or 4. We’ll take either one.”
“I’m writing you a check right now. I love it,” Banks said in response. “Who doesn’t want to go hang out in a hotel with all those fun people and solve a murder mystery?”
Ripa, 53, continued, “Oh, my gosh. It sounds like they’re in heaven! They’re shooting a show but they’re also in heaven while they’re shooting a show.”
“Seriously, it seems like a blast,” Banks added.
Banks isn’t the only big name that has declared interest in being a part of the series. Jennifer Aniston told E! News she’s “obsessed with it” and was fond of the suggestion that she play the sister of Jennifer Coolidge’s character Tanya McQuoid. Sheryl Lee Ralph also told E! News earlier this year: “Oh, honey, please. Call me, don’t be afraid to just call me.”
The White Lotus premiered in July 2021 to much acclaim. As the series gained popularity, the praise carried over to season 2, which featured an almost entirely new cast, with only Coolidge and her on-screen husband Jon Gries returning.
HBO renewed the series for a third season in November 2022, and White already has an idea as to where he could take the story.
“The first season we highlighted money and then the second season is sex,” he explained in an HBO Max featurette. “And I think the third season, it would be maybe a kind of satirical and funny look at death in Eastern religion and spirituality — it feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”
later reported that the third season will be set in Thailand.
The White Lotus is now streaming on Max.
