Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Jia Tolentino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean the question is like what is there to – what would you do if you're either of them? Like I'm trying to be like what would I do if I was – like if I was Belinda, do I trust Chloe enough to care? No. Not telling Chloe. He's not connected to the White Lotus in any way. You can't tell the White Lotus. Right. You know, like who do you report to?
She doesn't have any recourse. And his only recourse is I am going to do something to the son to make her keep quiet basically, right? Like that's the only thing.
He's looking for some sort of angle. And he finds nothing but, you know, I mean he finds the quickest thing to hold over a parent's head, which is the well-being of their child. Right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, like giving serial killer actually. Exactly.
Well, and they both say, you know, he's like, I'm on vacation with my family. And he's like, just got to get out of the rat race. You motherfuckers. Yeah. As Parker Posey says when they get off the yacht, I bet some of those guys were actual killers. And I was like, she sees. She sees and she knows. And then so Timothy, you know, resurfaces from his haze and is like, Pam, I need my phone, Pam.
He gets the phone, gets the horrific news that he's going to lose everything. And, you know, his muscles and bones are melting, you know, in front of us. And he's slumped over the guardhouse kind of railing and he sees the gun.
Guy talk is honestly horrible at his job.
It's on the counter. It's on. Right. Well.
And it's sort of like gift wrapped. You know what I mean? It's in this gift box. By the way, this is for you. It's like, do you need a gun, sir? At this moment, it's like the fifth time or whatever that Chekhov's gun has appeared. Yeah, I know. It's just coming up every single episode. It's kind of.
Yeah. He takes it. He immediately beforehand says, I would rather die than go to prison. And so I was like, OK, he's going to take the gun. Yeah.
It's tremendous, yeah. But it also – I was like this is also giving me when I was 25 trying to follow the conversation at brunch when I was hungover. Do you know what I mean? You know when you're like at a wedding event after the wedding on Sunday and like you're like trying to talk to somebody's mom and you're just like –
Yeah, but your eyes are kind of wandering off in different directions.
But it's also kind of a I mean, there's a joke aspect to it also. Right. Where it's like the show is playing with exactly, you know, you're just going to keep seeing the gun and it's just not going to be doing the thing that you think that you expected it to do. Right. Like it's like you're going to see the gun, but it's not going to be the mass shooting or whatever. That's right.
Starting episode one.
And now we're so excited to talk to Jason Isaacs.
So I'm from Texas and I went to college in Virginia. And so the character that you are playing, I feel like I've known him my whole life because I have known versions of him my whole life. And I wanted to ask you about playing this archetype. Like, were you familiar with this?
He comes off the boat as someone you think you know, right? He's giving, like, golf dad in finance, you know, taking this break. But I wanted, you know, how did you go about inhabiting not the archetype, but this...
In your mind, as Tim is unraveling, you know, there's so much in the story about the Ratliff family values and what they stand for and how important that is.
Well, yeah, and the way that you are not talking is incredible. That's like when Parker Post is like, say something and you're like, oh, you know. But I was wondering, as you experienced it, do you think that Tim is reevaluating those values or is he simply thinking about how can I not lose my house? You feel something building, such as like perhaps
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