Michelle Monaghan
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52 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Michelle Monaghan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so I really love that idea of that because even though it's heightened, of course, in White Lotus, I think it's something that we can all relate to as women specifically. Completely. The grass is always green. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've all seen relationships like that. We've all been in situations like that.
Yeah, yeah. And I think that's what's so brilliant, what, you know, what Mike did. And I think in my conversations with him, kind of building out the characters and stuff, you know, his inspiration really was, you know, I think he was a sidekick to a vacation that he went on that he witnessed like a lot of this kind of behavior or just sort of these comparisons.
And he was like, man, it's rough out there being a woman, you know, and like, no kidding, man. And so these women are all kind of mirrors to each other, right? You know, they have this shared history, right? The shared past. And then, of course, they grow up and their lives take very different directions and different paths. They live in different cities.
And then, you know, you can't help but look at like one path and go, God, that sounds like that looks pretty good. Right. It looks like she kind of just fucking nailed it. You know, she's got everything. She's got it all. That plays out really intensely in this dynamic, in this girl's trip. And that question of like trying to have it all or like, oh, no, no.
And I did this, this, this, this toxic positivity and this quest for perfectionism that we have as women. I'm nodding along. Except you, Jack, you look amazing. You look amazing. But you look incredible. You look incredible.
Yeah, I mean, I think we spoke a lot about that. I think Mike had some interesting inspiration, you know, as soon as he just tells it like it is. But, you know, he really wanted the ladies, and I say, this is a quote from Mike, to all look like a big blonde blob. Yeah. He really wanted us, like, baseline to really feel like we were kind of interchangeable, right?
Despite then the nuance that we all sort of developed in mind together. You know, initially, I would say that, you know, probably we all sort of looked the same when we were younger. And then all of a sudden, maybe Jacqueline was starting to be perceived as kind of this beautiful person. And then that kind of ruffled some feathers. And she...
started to be maybe put on a pedestal, you know, from probably junior high or high school and, you know, kind of went on to have this success as an actor. And for Jacqueline, I mean, I think she sort of She has a love-hate relationship with being put on a pedestal. But I suppose the only thing that could be worse than being on the pedestal is not being put on a pedestal.
I think that she has a real... She's very conflicted in the way that she wants attention and what drives her. And I'm sure that there was a lot of deep-rooted sort of things that kind of took place for all of them. I think... There were some things in high school that maybe Jacqueline did that they'll never forgive her for.
I think there are some things that maybe then those patterns continued to maybe rear their ugly head. But then I think one of the other things that's interesting that Mike delves into is the way that we remember things.
You know what this reminds me of? When we did that sketch in school and we were all one person. And Jacqueline, of course, was the face. And we hid behind you and I had my hands and some shoes and I was your feet and... And I was the arms.
That's like, what are you talking about? Like, that's not at all how that happened. And then you're looking at the other one like, are you kidding me? No, it happened this way. And then we're all completely stumped because we don't know what the reality is. And I think that was really a great way that Mike was able to kind of infuse that kind of confusion and that
Like you don't know who to kind of even root for at that point. And so there's like some, everyone's bringing a little bit of their baggage. And so the way that Mike uses those conversations, but they're gossiping about one another and one leaves the room and whatever. It's so gooey and juicy and gossipy, but it's sort of that faux, that faux care, right?
That faux, like that, that toxic positivity. You're like, oh my gosh, I must love her so much.
It's so good. I mean, I remember reading those lines, and it was so wild.
Actually, that scene, I think, was in our audition. For the show. And I remember, you know, we got three scenes and he asked me to specifically audition for the role of Jacqueline and Leslie for Kate. And then, of course, Carrie for Lori. However, he had a really unique way of auditioning. of auditioning, he had me say a lot of Kate and Lori lines.
And then he had them actually say a lot of like Jacqueline and Kate lines. And then like, you know, he mixed it all up because he wanted us all to kind of share the same qualities again. Like it was such a unique. And so when we got the role, I was like, we all kind of got the material and we were all like, oh, we're so confused, Mike. We thought...
We thought, you know, Jacqueline was saying this line. We thought this was a good Kate storyline. And he was like, no, I just wanted to see you all like this.
And I was like, oh, my gosh. You know, there's such a method to his madness. That's incredible.
Yeah. His process is so wild. It's so cool.
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