Parker Posey
Appearances
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
We flew over the North Pole.
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
I was also at Tar Heel. But Timothy went to Duke. Saxon graduated Duke. Laughlin, our youngest, just got accepted to both. So you can imagine, it's a whole thing.
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
Pam, would you please escort them to the villa? Certainly. Please enjoy. Right this way. Enjoy. Thank you.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And he was making furniture in the 90s and shopping around antique stores and refurbishing this and building that and meeting all these cool guys and, you know, making a living and being kind of a vagabond artist and making cool stuff. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And, you know, that started way back then, right? Right. Like, in the 70s, people were making their own furniture and the nomadic lifestyle and all that. And then it goes out of style, and then it came back. That's right. But now I think there's a resurgence. People are like, let me see things get fixed and built. Right. And give me the reveal. Let me see how it's made. I love a reveal.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I love a reveal. And so... So yeah, she didn't become a creative director on the show, Duvall, until she was in her 40s and her kids were grown. And so they're this partnership, these two people that are so lovely and have this really beautiful show. And yeah, it's called For the Love of Kitchens. So Duvall is their thing.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
But see, I don't know if I would, I said bye to the renovation because it's so expensive. I should just like sell it and move somewhere else.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
You just keep pumping. It's different for women. Women don't get paid with the guys. I don't know if you've heard about that. What? Make a statement. There's a big discrepancy. There's a big discrepancy, darling. It just is. In these little indie movies, you don't make money.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It was true when I was younger. But no, it still is true. You know, I had to turn something down that would have paid me a lot of money after White Lotus, and I could barely put a sentence together. I was so wiped.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
from almost seven months of work in Thailand and what that heavy lift was and what that long distance run was that it's like, you know, after you go through something, there's like a reverb that I need like three months, three or four months to settle down and get back to myself.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I just like, but it's, yes, I am, you know, I can't say that I'm proud. That doesn't really, I feel so blessed. I feel so lucky. I mean, this is like-
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is there. I see what you mean. But yeah, it is a thing. I mean, I want to write another book. The last seven or eight years have been so, I'm just full of stories, you know, and I know I'm a story maker and I'm here to share what I'm living and what I'm learning.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
See, I'm so, I barely can do Zoom right now. Like, I've listened to a few of your, I am so feeding the bird feed, you know, putting the seed in the bird feeders. Like, I didn't even know the storyteller thing was a thing that people are saying. But think about it.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It feels good to be supported by you guys, you know? We got you, girl. When my fame hit in the 90s, it's being famous and having that kind of success that I couldn't really explain, and I still don't really understand it. Look at this. Parker, look at the screen. Look at that. Ah!
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
You know what it is? It's like when people point you out in a place as cool as New York and New York City, and you're not cool anymore.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
So it's like, I felt like I was called a name in a way, where I was trying to be, or my path was more like, oh, Greg Mottola did a reading of his movie that he was trying to get financed, and then I introduced him to Liev Schreiber, who was in Party Girl, and then...
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
we do the day trippers a year later because he couldn't get the original script that he wanted to finance financed because the budget was too... You know, it was such a community back then. Right, right, right. And I felt like... when it got exposed, right when I got exposed and the whole indie movement got exposed, it also got co-opted by the studio system.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And then it became this other thing, and all of a sudden, I wasn't viable to get a movie financed, and it was such a head trip because... And then I would have to audition for Hollywood movies when I'd carried the lead in independent movies that were shot in 23 days. And all of a sudden, I'm in a fluorescent-lit room, like, sweating and feeling like I'm being gaslit, you know?
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Like, I can promise I can do and memorize these lines and the scripts, and I will. Let's just go. Trust me, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I wasn't. So I had like a good 20 years of that, you know, after. And then working with great auteurs and doing these, you know, not getting paid a lot, but being able to, you know, work in the world.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, it's a weird thing. It's a mystical thing. I think my life and people's lives can have a mystical kind of quality if they're paying attention. And I think it's a healing thing. I think I evolve, I grow. I'm kind of a hippie like that.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
That's a good question. You know, when you do a lot of traveling and... You're not home. I haven't been home for more than five days since February.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It's so much more interesting than your career or where you thought you would be in as far as, like, at, you know, the success that something like White Lotus gives you, right? Right. That I feel so blessed. I feel so protected. I feel in my flow, and that is... I feel like I've learned, I've been through a lot, you know, from 45 to 56 was a lot.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Like my dad had prostate cancer for 20 years from Agent Orange in Vietnam. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm talking like a prolonged grief, like an anticipatory grief. I think I had a lot of grief with my career and going like, I don't quite understand it. As a woman, you get older and then, you know, and the culture changes. So you have that and you...
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
You have good ideas that you pitch that are educational and kids would love them and they don't get made. You know, there's a lot of disappointment in the culture right now.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Now more as an artist. And you're just kind of like, but this is such a powerful medium. I don't understand why... more as being on the screen. If the arts are going to be subsidized in New York, is it going to be the apex of creativity? Then what can we make to form something that will be that and will hold that for our playwrights, for our writers who are born to tell, that have that soul?
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I've read enough scripts and I've seen enough plays to know that there is that divine spark when you read something that is like our town or something that is so... And, you know, we used to be a culture that aimed toward that. And I hope, you know, I'm an optimist. Like, I will be that, you know, to Moscow, to Moscow, Chekhov character till the day I die. Right.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I believe in, you know, being in Thailand for so long and coming back to America was so inspiring. I mean, everyone, I'm like, ugh, you know, I'm like, this country and these people and these trees and this nature, like, do you know how lucky we are? Right. We kind of like shape up in like this way that has been so. Amen.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
No, because you're just all learning about, you know, you're changing and you're like, I mean, I think I could have been easier on myself. I think I could have not worked so hard. And I could have deserved more.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
God, I was like... I had to put a resume and... Yeah, I'm a fan. I saw Marcel Marceau in New York, like on his 80th birthday perform. And I cried my face off.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yes. Yes. I've never, now where has mine... Just anything that can reach like a four-year-old and a hundred-year-old, like what that did, like it was just so artful and fantastic.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I'm not making fun of mine. You're not getting me to make fun of mine, but I lied about it on my resume. No, but is it still
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, there are two parts of the story. They did love... My parents fell madly in love and married young, and my dad was drafted, and the twins were born.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I have a twin brother. And my mom had a friend when she was a little girl who... My mom was 12, like 11 or 12, like still a Girl Scout. And one of her friends had, her sister had a baby and named her Parker. And my mom, whose name is Linda with a Y, she always hated it. Linda with a Y. Why did my mother, Linda with a Y? And she goes, oh, there's a little butterfly outside.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And so my mom said, if I ever have a little girl, I'm going to give her a strong name like Parker. But then she met my dad with this name like Posey. And I almost died at birth. My dad was like there in his army.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I was still in the oven. I was born premature. And a week before, on Halloween, my mom got the news that she was having twins. And so the story was that I was in her ribs, and they didn't even know where I was. Oh, God. So I was out at three pounds.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And so, yeah, I was like not even three pounds. And so the doctor came in saying, your boy is fine, but we don't know about your girl. We need a name.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And so I'm going to put her right here. And what's the middle name? And my middle name is Christian because they wanted the help of Jesus and God and anyone else who would listen. And so, yeah, my dad would tell this story.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
that he was in the hospital with a six pack of beer, like kneeling and praying as he's like looking at me in an incubator with these like, and he's like, please God, please let my little girl live. And at that moment I screamed. No way. And so my dad, so I was like, okay, now my dad, my dad talks to God all the time. So it was, It's like such a crazy story to tell like a little kid.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
You know how you tell, so I got a lot of that mythologizing. Yeah, that's cool though. As a kid, which I, and then he also said, and I looked at that beer can and I said, My girl is the size of this beer can. She's like a beer can with legs. And that was like, and look at me now.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I mean, I was definitely daddy's girl. My dad, I describe as a comedian without a venue. Like, he was really funny and really a performer, you know.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I was a ballerina. And my dad, I auditioned. I went away when I was 12 for North Carolina School of the Arts to dance. And I loved ballet. And I auditioned for the dance program. And I didn't get in. And I was devastated. And my dad called the dean of the school. And he said, my daughter's going to be devastated. What do I tell her? And he said, we loved her so much.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And she almost got in because she's so much fun. But... You just tell her she's an actress, and that's how it all started. Oh, really?
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Really? Wow. Yeah, and so I went back to NCSA for acting, and it was there I did clowning, and maybe that's why I, you know, I made fun of mime back then, but I, you know, I have respect for mime, and I appreciate mime, and I did movement and dance and all of that.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
That's right. We moved to Laurel when I was 12. So I was already, like, out the door.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It was a short, I was a junior in college, and it was a short called First Love, Fatal Love for HBO about a woman and a young person in high school who had AIDS. And this was played by a woman named Alex O'Dare, who I love and adore. She's Gabby Hoffman's older sister. And she's just brilliant and a great person and woman. And she wrote a book, too, and she's just wonderful. And Steve Zahn.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Steve Zahn had 10 lines in that. I had 10 lines. How old were you? I was 20, I think. Wow.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
What about you? I want to hear, like, little stories. Like, when did that all click for you guys?
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
So at NCSA, when I was there at 16, because I went for the summer programs and I just loved it, one of the teachers there named Molly, and she had this big cow, she was a modern dance teacher, and she had this big cow patty bun on her head and wore like, you know, leotards and character skirts all day long. She'd been wearing them for like 35 years, right? And I love the modern dance teachers.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
She said, you know, you may want to try auditioning for SUNY Purchase for drama. Because these schools accept different types of actors. And so I auditioned for NCSA, Juilliard, and SUNY Purchase. And Purchase was the school I got into.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And your roommate was sharing. Yeah, so that's how it started. And I was going to, I was living in New York City the June, 1989, 90 of my junior year. Wow. And freelancing with a manager. I know. Gosh, it's wild to think about how long I've been doing this.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, the South is a different, you know, I just, yeah. Did you read plays? Did everyone read plays as a young actor? Yeah, always. I didn't. So is that, well, you were already on that TV show, Jason.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Ayurvedic? Okay, when I was doing, I did a movie called The Eye with Jessica Alba. And it was based on a Korean film. Yay, Jessica! It was based on a Korean film, a horror film, about a woman who's blind and gets a chance to see. I'll be honest, I never saw it! And so she, my sister, Jessica, gets her eyes, you know, gets a surgery where she gets these eyes back.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And they're the eyes of a murderer. And it was a great part because, as her sister, because all I had to do is like, what's going on? You seem different, you know. And I was in New Mexico for like three weeks. And I went to the Ayurvedic Institute and I sat in on some classes with an Ayurvedic teacher named Dr. Vasant Ladd, who is like one of these leading Ayurvedic people in the country.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I sat in on some classes at the institute there, and I met this... I hung out at the Annapurna Cafe, which is like the Indian cafe, and found the yoga classes, but heard from this guy, Prakash, that there was a... there was an Ayurvedic school and I should go because this Dr. Vasant Ladd is incredible. So I sat in on some classes there. It was really cool.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It's a science. It's a science of the body. And we're born into these bodies that tell us what our psychology is and how we should eat and And then there's three different – it's pitta, vata, and kapha. So everyone falls into these different categories of – if there's like – like I burn through energy. You know, like when I'm working, I'm like –
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I'm quick to grasp things, but I can easily forget them. And so it's like a way of your body, you're designed in a certain way. We're incarnated into these bodies to have this kind of experience. And with these bodies, they are teaching us how to be centered and aligned and open and
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
That's right, yeah, and certain foods. So there were people who had cancer who did the Ayurvedic. It's called Pachacarma, I think.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It's really interesting. And through diet, they've healed themselves. And then they're like, okay, we're opening a restaurant in Hawaii, and I'm going to serve Ayurvedic food because this is healing people more than my chemo did, you know? Yeah. So when my dad had cancer, I tried to get him to be healthier.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I saw someone sent me a doc called, I think, Surviving Cancer, which had an interview of all these people who said, I'm not doing chemo. I'm just going to see what happens with my diet when I change it. And anyway, it's kind of... That is interesting. I like all that stuff.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
It was a dream. I heard about this place called Kamaliah. Mike's lawyer's wife, I just struck up a conversation. We had all just landed there like a week, you know. And she said, I'm going to this place called Kamaliah. It's for women of a certain age. And, you know, I'm going to go there for two weeks and get this all sorted out. And then I saw her two weeks later, and she was just like, phew.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
She got grounded. She was centered. She was like, it opened up a lot of healing. So this place and these, it's very, you know, there's an Ayurvedic chef there and it's a wellness center and has one of those plaques that Mike visited this place for White Lotus. you know, a digital detox, please no cell phones at the table and all of that. And there was a communal table.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I did Reiki. I did sound baths. I went to that liminal space you were talking about earlier in the show.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Where you're in between consciousness and you're in a theta state, I think it's called, too. And I had waking, like... moments and dreams and I saw things and it was like it was it was founded on a on a monk's cave like 25 years ago this couple John and Karina met each other and then reconnected and built this this this beautiful place so it's uh
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
The thing about Thailand that is so special are the people. Like, a rite of passage as a, you know, I don't know how old, as a 13-year-old, or maybe in high school, is to live in a monastery and live off the kindness of others who are going to drop off food for you to eat.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
So they have a lot of reciprocity. Okay, at Kamaliah, there was a doctor named Dr. Cern. I had this Moo Moo caftan dress on with dogs on it. And so she knew, and I love dogs. And so she told me about her, she showed me pictures of her dog KK. KK means crooked in Thai. And KK had crooked eyes and his little like, you know, a mix, kind of a corgi mix, but a little stockier. Sure.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And the dog, she showed me these pictures of KK with like carrying a dead leaf, like a leaf or a branch in his mouth, her mouth. Even KK knows to bring offerings when she wants something. Wow. So she would make offerings of like a leaf or something. She'd bring it to the door for food at the back doors. Isn't that the best? Yeah.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
They're so kind. Like it's so, they're so present with you. And it's just so, well, yeah. Anyway, I can tell you guys kind of spaced out and checked out. No, we were listening. No, I love that. We were listening.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah. So I think I kind of got what it was to learn an instrument at the end there. Like I could start jamming with songs and then get that kind of space. Yeah, that was so cool. I'm so glad I got to do that.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Will you stay? I really enjoyed hanging out with you guys. You know, you do these things and then you don't really feel like you're hanging out.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Thank you. I just hope I'm nominated. Yes. I'm honored to be nominated and I hope that happens. So thank you for sending out that Hollywood vibe. I love it.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Was that torture? I was hypnotized by that. I'm just happy to be awake now.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I like the color of your hair. I dyed the hair. I dyed the hair for a movie I did with Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich, a Martin McDonough film.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Wild Horse 9. Yeah. Easter Island is the furthest place you can go in the world being furthest away from anywhere else. It's a 17-mile island with the heads. Yeah. With the... Oh, with the... That's the thing, right? The cult of the Birdman.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I wasn't. I wasn't. My parents would play a game with me in the car, and they'd be like, what's the capital of Denver? And I'd say Colorado. And they would just think that was hilarious how stupid I was at geography and knowing where things were.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I would, like, do this thing, and my grandmother, Nani, she'd have this world, this globe, you know those globes that you would love to spin it, you know? I'm going to go here. And I would just play that for hours. I love that. And I'd say, you know what? I'll know where I am when I get there. And if I'm lost and I don't know where I am, I'm going to ask somebody and they're going to tell me.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
They're going to give me directions. And before the phones, I knew where to go and I'd ask people like directions and I was fine.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Oh, my God. That's a good question. Because there's been so much traveling that I wake up in bed and I don't know where I am.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Thank you. Just relax. Do you know what... You know... I'm really loving Matlock. I'm loving Kathy Bates in Matlock so much.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Oh, I just like that cozy formula. She's just fantastic, and I'm into that. I'm also, I watched 1923 with Helen Mirren.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
So I was here a few weeks ago. It's great, you know? I love the costumes and the learning about history and geography.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
See, I'm doing all this. This is the awards push of Emmys and, you know, from White Lotus. I've never been a part of the machine that has, you know, had that happen.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
She's the horse to beat. I wonder if there's a horse named after her. There's a horse named after me. Is there really? There's like a Posey Parker. And yeah, I lived with a woman named Marsha Brill in the West Village. She was in...
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And she would smoke, and she was 4'11". I love it. And friends would come by, and they'd be like, she's fabulous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, she is, like, having a stiff drink at 5'. and was an editor.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
This was on TV on like a little perfect, you know, black and white little box TV from the 80s downstairs around the kitchen. Amazing. But those times are no longer. But yeah, I'm open to LA. I'm using this podcast for you guys to tell everyone that I'm moving to Hollywood.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Would you? But you guys aren't here. You're not in Hollywood. Well, we're in Hollywood.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Is everyone just not? I'm going back. You are, okay. I don't really know where to be. And I think that's from being in so many stories.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
I'm in a farmhouse. I'm a lady. I'm a steward of the land. on this farm in upstate New York. So I couldn't carry both the city and the country. And so now I'm like this, you know, putting bird seed in the feeders. Yeah. Really? It was too much. Oh, I didn't know that. That's a big switch.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Walton Goggins is close by. I just saw him last night. I ran into him. He has completed 18 months of nonstop travel and work. He did Fallout. He did Righteous Gemstones. He did White Lotus. And I saw him driving up in the parking lot. And I was meeting some friends. Well, friends were picking me up at 535. It was 530. Walton drives up and Walton.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
And I see him in the car and I swear he like started crying. He was like, I'm done. I'm done. I just finished all of this, you know, mountain of work.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, my house isn't like that. My house is really crunchy granola sweet. I like it. But you love it. The renovations, I'm trying to renovate and get a new kitchen because there's the insulation, you know, the pipes freeze and all that. And I love a project. But so my house has been this thing that I've, this being, you know, I don't look at my house like mine.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Like I just want to give to it because it's an old farmhouse. So I guess what I'm saying, Will, is like, and you guys, I'm trying to figure out just where to land in a community.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Well, that's a great idea because, and that's what I tell the contractors when they come over. I'm like, I want to, can you, are you open to me filming you with my phone? I would love to do like a home improvement show. I love that. Would you wear this? World. Put this on. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Parker Posey"
Yeah, what the... They had this show on HBO Max called For the Love of Kitchens. And there are these groovy English people in their 50s, our age.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You're doing it right.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You know, she's like doing her little moves by the pool. Yeah.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Hugely. Yeah.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
That's super relatable, I think.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yeah, right.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Should we just go for both?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I think it sounds familiar to her. Yeah. Somewhere around. She could be reminded about it, you know?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, okay. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, imagine that person who doesn't know where they're going, you know, landing there. But she's had the help of her pills. And she's very strong-willed. She wants to be close to her family, which is just staying in her room, getting some massage, going back to the room, ordering in, and being as cozy as she can be with her perfect family.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, right. Yeah. You know, Mike White is like, he's an actor too. You know, he's an actor. He's a very strong writer. And on set, he felt like an acting buddy. And a lot of the actors talked about this where he kind of takes over, he takes what you're giving him and he'll mirror it back to you and then play a little as the camera's rolling. And... yeah, just add whatever.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So that was fun to be able to create and to work like that. I have no idea what has been edited or what has been used because I haven't seen it and I don't like to watch myself, but I heard that I could trust Mike and just like a crazy quilt, right? Like this is how he works. He gets a lot of material and then in the editing it becomes the white lotus thing that it's supposed to be.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So it was a really fun way to work and it was like an extreme sport actually. It was kind of improvisational but also very, you know, it was extreme. We traveled a lot, right? But we also got to play. And I was so blown away just to be in another country like Thailand. I'd never been to Asia.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I feel like she's living in a man's world in these conditions that are so opposed to her as a woman. Like men and women are so different. Like this is a dopamine dominated family of achieving and being something that's really important. but it's not authentic. And I think she's really kind of, she's so distorted in how she's looking at her family.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
She's doesn't, she's a fragmented person, spoiled, rotten. I think she came from a lot of money and was allowed to create the reality, you know, around her. But I don't think it's hers. That's a great question. I think you know, southern women, the archetypal, like, Tennessee Williams character.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You know, for me, I thought a lot about that kind of stuff, and as a performer, being able to finally do something like that, which I love. But this, you know, Maggie the Cat, you know,
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like a cat on a hot tin roof and just like this passion and this like it's so human and it's so female and the southern drama of um you know being able to live with your feelings and your needs and your passion um is is is just so great for tv It's great when you travel around the world and people go, where are you from? And you say America, and they come up with that southern accent.
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People love to imitate it. And so these Mike White shows and the White Lotus are a lot like the Christopher Guest movies. And our time right now is very memeable. It's like, it's not just a show, it's part of the zeitgeist and it's that kind of show that people will bring into their homes and then they get to kind of live through these parts. My family was like that.
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They loved, you know, the Chris Guest movies and it made them laugh and they get to see through the characters that Mike has created, people that we've seen in real life that we kind of go like, oh my God, I can't believe she's, that person's like that yet. I've seen that person. I've seen that person, I know this person. So there's a real, there's a glee in this world.
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But I think she's, Victoria, I think she's drowning in a lot of ways. But she looks at her son and she sees her father. So she's choosing these ways to look at her reality and her world. And there's a lot of power in that. I don't think it's been the best for her kids that she indulges herself in such a narcissistic way. But I loved being able to portray that. So that was really fun.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I love denial. Denial is very real, darling. And I think that's what it is, is like, I know it. No, I don't. I denied it. Right, so when she's asking, is there something, she's like... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an alliance. I think he has a lot on his plate in having to protect a woman like Victoria.
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I think the stakes of making her such a mess and someone that you think needs a lot of help and can't exist without him, which I know he believes... But then we're like, no, this woman, the woman behind the man, right? And she's the one with the force. So it was really fun to play those shades in a couple and in a family. We were wondering that from the beginning.
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Exactly, yeah. I always want to bring theater into my work and and those tropes of drama. And so Mike, what he's done is he's kind of like a playwright in this way of, I don't know of anyone else who's been able to be so theatrical and classic in this Chekhovian way and this high drama, you know, whodunit, like we all love a mystery.
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We all love an archetype of someone that we've seen before, like come to life. So he brings a lot of humor to that and a lot of joy to that. I mean, the jokes were so good. He gave me such, she has such great lines. She has incredible lines. I was screaming laughing.
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But like those kinds of people that are like, where did you go today? And then they say something completely, you know, completely different.
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Patrick. Oh, we guessed wrong. I thought it would be Lockie.
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I think Patrick, I think Lachlan carries her sensitivity and her shadow in a way. And that she's very tender with him and knows his sensitivity. But he reminds her of her own sensitivity. because she's such a narcissist. I think she's like, I think she probably... Saxon has more armor. I think she protects him intensely in her heart, you know? And with all our kids, Piper is her father's daughter.
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She is going to be fine, you know? But the boys are a bit more... untethered or like a little wild but there's something to you know I think Saxon's bravado that just reminds her of her granddaddy you know just that kind of thing so when she sees him she's just looking at him going That's my grandfather. Oh, my God. It's like Bubby all over him. You know, just this like joy.
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And there's so, I think she's got a lot of heart. You know, I think there's a lot of love there and passion. It's really, it was really fun to play.
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Thank you, guys. Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Come here.
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They're testing it in real time.
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Let's find out.
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Her top comes off. Her top comes off.