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Michelle Monaghan

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The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

You're beautiful homes. You're totally winning life. Well, look at you. Now you've found the man of your dreams. Oh, my God. Who would have ever thought, right?

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

You're beautiful homes. You're totally winning life. Well, look at you. Now you've found the man of your dreams. Oh, my God. Who would have ever thought, right?

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

Oh, my gosh. Just being here with the three of us, I'm in heaven. I would sleep in a tree.

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

Oh, my gosh. Just being here with the three of us, I'm in heaven. I would sleep in a tree.

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

Well, I'll tell you what, I don't know if there were any pleasures in reading that I was going to be playing someone that was famous, that's a television star. In fact, if anything, it felt like it hit a little too close to home. It felt a little confronting because I was like, wait, how do I play...

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

Well, I'll tell you what, I don't know if there were any pleasures in reading that I was going to be playing someone that was famous, that's a television star. In fact, if anything, it felt like it hit a little too close to home. It felt a little confronting because I was like, wait, how do I play...

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

something that's that on paper appears so close to me in terms of the job right so the initial fear of like reading that that was my career i was like oh gosh this feels a little meta but after i got beyond the idea that she was this actress which of course i could relate to very much it was really just getting to kind of discover all of the you know the complexities of her which are obviously well beyond um you know who i am or anything like that yeah

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

something that's that on paper appears so close to me in terms of the job right so the initial fear of like reading that that was my career i was like oh gosh this feels a little meta but after i got beyond the idea that she was this actress which of course i could relate to very much it was really just getting to kind of discover all of the you know the complexities of her which are obviously well beyond um you know who i am or anything like that yeah

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

I think that, you know, what was interesting to me was this idea that she... You know, she has these lifelong best friends and she wanted to take them on vacation, you know, and I feel like she kind of felt like she owes it to her girlfriends that maybe they're not in that position to be able to do that. And I think that...

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

I think that, you know, what was interesting to me was this idea that she... You know, she has these lifelong best friends and she wanted to take them on vacation, you know, and I feel like she kind of felt like she owes it to her girlfriends that maybe they're not in that position to be able to do that. And I think that...

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

At the same time, while she was excited to kind of foot the bill, to kind of fund this girl's trip, that maybe she secretly liked as well to have the upper hand and how she kind of manipulates that a little bit. And I think that's something that Mike obviously writes with such nuance and such subtext. But I think that he really wanted us to lean back

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

At the same time, while she was excited to kind of foot the bill, to kind of fund this girl's trip, that maybe she secretly liked as well to have the upper hand and how she kind of manipulates that a little bit. And I think that's something that Mike obviously writes with such nuance and such subtext. But I think that he really wanted us to lean back

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

into that kind of that ever-evolving power dynamic. This idea that one's kind of the perpetrator, one's the peacemaker, one's the victim, and it's constantly shifting, right? And so kind of finding our respective roles in each of those dynamics and kind of how that plays out and that kind of shifts. And... I think that she, Jacqueline, likes to appear to be in control, you know?

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

into that kind of that ever-evolving power dynamic. This idea that one's kind of the perpetrator, one's the peacemaker, one's the victim, and it's constantly shifting, right? And so kind of finding our respective roles in each of those dynamics and kind of how that plays out and that kind of shifts. And... I think that she, Jacqueline, likes to appear to be in control, you know?

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

But I think at the same time she really wants to just be reckless and um to kind of lose control so i think there's a real duality to her and definitely a duplicity that we start to see um we get to see in her as the show progresses and and it's that's the beautiful gray area of all the characters right is that they they all are a little bit duplicitous and

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

But I think at the same time she really wants to just be reckless and um to kind of lose control so i think there's a real duality to her and definitely a duplicity that we start to see um we get to see in her as the show progresses and and it's that's the beautiful gray area of all the characters right is that they they all are a little bit duplicitous and

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

And certainly this season's theme, which is sort of spirituality and life and death, you really see every character being confronted with that existential kind of crisis of like, who am I? What am I doing here? But I think, you know, what's really relatable with The Three Ladies is this

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

And certainly this season's theme, which is sort of spirituality and life and death, you really see every character being confronted with that existential kind of crisis of like, who am I? What am I doing here? But I think, you know, what's really relatable with The Three Ladies is this

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

The way that we explore, the way that we've been kind of conditioned as women to compare ourselves to one another, to judge ourselves, this thing that we're always confronted with our own life's choices and questioning our very lives based on other women's sort of experiences. failures or successes.

The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 1: "Same Spirits, New Forms" with David Bernad and Michelle Monaghan

The way that we explore, the way that we've been kind of conditioned as women to compare ourselves to one another, to judge ourselves, this thing that we're always confronted with our own life's choices and questioning our very lives based on other women's sort of experiences. failures or successes.