![]() ![]() The ennui ridden Ethan-Harper encounter the sexually free, no-rules-abiding Cameron and Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy) “a very different couple who bring all these things to the surface” says Sharpe, “So, he’s questioning who he is and his behaviors shift in the last couple of episodes it’s like he’s almost surrendering to the reality that he has to play the game by these different rules.” ![]() The actor adds, “he’s worried about who he’s maybe becoming: He’s only recently made all this money and he finds himself sort of on vacation by mistake.” ![]() Sharpe was mindful that Ethan carried “the potential for real darkness, but also marrying that with the reality of the story, which is really the story of somebody who’s terrified about the stage of his marriage and he’s trying to confront that.” His sort of more problematic male behavior starts to bubble through.” “He wanted the audience to wonder if Ethan is going to end up killing someone, and whether this nice guy thing is a misdirect. On set Sharpe spoke with White about how mysterious Ethan should be. Is Ethan bound to kill his old friend? Cameron no doubt envies Ethan’s success in tech. Frictions ultimately heat up between Cameron and Ethan, as the latter suspects the former of sleeping with Harper. White Lotus season 2 begins with a floating body in the Sicilian waters, and we don’t know who died, or who was murdered. (L-R) Meghann Fahy, Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Will Sharpe HBO “He’s neither sexy sweet nor an out-and-out baddie,” the actor explains. “It sort of felt very surreal to all of a sudden be in Sicily playing this part,” adds Sharpe who was stoked to play the nuances of a “morally gray character”. He ultimately read for the role on zoom with Tucker and Bernad. “I was so excited to get the request, but as I was taping it, I didn’t really think anything would come of it,” he tells us. Sharpe received the request to submit a tape for White Lotus. “There’s a repressiveness to him, but you need to see him lash out,” Tucker explains, “We felt that he could be able to do that just from the other material that he had shown.” She could see from Sharpe’s demo reel of Giri/Haji and Defending the Guilty a chameleon sensibility, something the part of Ethan required. There was something very cerebral and could see that he and Aubrey made sense as a couple,” Tucker explains. Why Sharpe worked was “you’d buy him as a tech guy. Tucker immediately phoned White Lotus EP David Bernad, who coincidentally was also thinking of Sharpe. It was key to match the proper age to Theo James’ privileged Cameron Sullivan he and Ethan having been college roommates. She had watched Landscapers and thought Sharpe was the right age for the role. Tucker came across Sharpe while going through IMDB and UTA’s client list. His most recent acting roles were in the Netflix series, Giri/Haji, and the BBC 2018-2019 series, Defending the Guilty as a barrister, parts which “could not be more different” than the introverted Ethan per Tucker and showed off Sharpe’s more extroverted, comedic sides. “It was really a hard role because it’s sort of a slow burn.” The part went to UK-based Will Sharpe, who has recently been blazing a trail as a writer and director on the HBO series Landscapers, and the British show Flowers. “That was the last part we ended up casting, and we were having a little trouble figuring that role out,” Tucker says. White had originally written the role of Harper with Plaza in mind. However, one of the more challenging roles for Tucker to cast was the role of Ethan Spiller, the earnest, enigmatic rich tech husband to Aubrey Plaza’s slippery Harper. Murray Abraham, Michael Imperioli and Adam DiMarco. This entails synching ages and likenesses for those characters who are connected to each other, i.e creating a believable age disparity between the grandfather-father-son Di Grasso family trio played respectively by F. White Lotus’ casting director Meredith Tucker, who won a Limited Series Casting Primetime Emmy for season one on the Mike White created show, tells us in an interview for the Deadline FYC House + HBO Max event series that when it comes to putting together the right cast “it’s dealt with role by role” with the “specificity of the relationships always coming into play”. 'It Starts On The Page': Read 'The White Lotus' Season 2 Script "That's Amore" By Mike White ![]()
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