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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There's no chance he remembers her, which I hope she is to her advantage.
Those three actors, when they are doing, having fun, but primarily, like, in a way that's like I'm performing a woman on vacation having fun.
They're so profoundly self-conscious when they're around each other. And then the way it totally collapses and changes as soon as one of them leaves the room. It's just, it's amazing. It's amazing stuff.
Right.
Well, and they make it clear in almost everything the parents say that the primary sort of locus for them and like what is a good family is the sort of successful performance and edifice, right?
It's like you have to not basically like you've got this beautiful facade, like don't let it slip. Leslie Bibb, she has that line where she's like, Well, you know what they say, the bigger the front, the bigger the back or whatever. Yeah, right. You know, and it's like – and this is an operative line for everyone but especially that family. It's like they're – it is so core to their identity.
You feel that these children have heard since they were like little kids in perfect Christmas outfits posing for their perfect Christmas picture in front of a giant, you know, tree at a country club that like – The virtue exists in the performance of that virtue. Like there is no sense of the internal unless it is what you're projecting.
Right. And I think that here there will be this sort of reinvention sort of recurrence thing that will be happening that's sort of thematically consistent with the setting and Buddhism and whatever. And it's like Rick is, you know, he is... on his second, third, fourth iteration of a life, it feels like.
There's that moment where he and Greg, who's still going by Gary, Tanya's Greg, it's like they talk about doing this and that, and it's like every fucking white American is here for having done this and that.
Yeah, exactly. And so it's like, quote unquote, Gary is trying to leave his life behind. Rick is trying to either leave something behind or step into a new version of himself. I feel like Piper is doing that. The Ratliff dad is trying to, you know, take the $10 million, the mere $10 million he got out of whatever –
fraud bribery situation went on in Brunei and try to leave it behind, but he can't. It's catching up with him.
Right.
But I do think for most of the characters, like, I think there tend to only – I think that there are like a couple of journeys per season that really cut at a strange angle against character's destiny. But mostly people kind of end up where – do you know what I mean? Right. Like it's like everyone – there's something surprising happens to everyone in the course of their week at the White Lotus.
But – You know, it's like, you know, Jake Lacey's coming out of there, same guy, same wife. You know what I mean? Like there's, but it is interesting to wonder like who it's going to be, who it's going to be that's going to get out of the ringer, you know, kind of.
And now we're so excited to be joined by Lisa Manibal and Tame Tap Tim Tong, who play our friends Mook and Guy Talk.
Thank you for having us.
We've been loving watching the season. I wanted to ask you guys, you know, Mike White always casts people from the country, the place where he's shooting. How did you guys feel in these roles as the primary Thai voices in the show? And what do you hope viewers sort of take away about Thailand?
You have to not know what you're doing.
You could have secured that promotion to be the bodyguard, the international bodyguard.
How did you guys, you know, the romance from the very first scene when the motorbike breaks down and you're kind of making the joke, like, give me a hundred baht or whatever.
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