Fionnuala Jones

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386 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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Today with David McCullagh · Roles Recast – TV & Movie stars who have been replaced · 11 May 2026 podcast

And as you said, nine days into production, then she left.

Now, the party line is, and some reports are suggesting that Mike White, the creator, was looking for a bit of a more boisterous performance, but that ultimately the character that he had drawn up for Carter didn't end up aligning with the performance she was giving.

So she left.

And as you said, Laura Dern was drafted in.

I would say maybe a better fit given Laura Dern and Mike White are frequent collaborators.

They worked on...

enlightenment together.

But I had also forgotten as well, Dern was actually in one of the previous seasons of White Lotus.

Now she was off screen, but if you'll remember, she was in season two.

She played Abby, who was the estranged wife of Michael Imperioli's character.

So we don't know if she's playing that character or she's an entirely new character.

We do know it'll be a different character to Helena Bonham characters, as far as I'm aware.

But yeah, to be a fly on the wall of that production, for sure.

The Witcher, yes.

People will know it from Netflix.

Hugely buzzy show.

It's an adaptation of an extremely popular book series that actually went on to have an even more popular video game series.

Liam Hemsworth ended up taking over the role of Geralt for season four and season five, the final season, which will be out this year.

He took over from Henry Cavill.

Henry Cavill had kind of established the role and it calmed down very, very well.

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