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been times where I've been on
vacations, and you'd see women
friends together, and you were
just like, ‘I can't really get a vibe of
what's going on?’ And then one
would leave and then the other
two would start talking. They're
triangulating in some way. And
so there's some of that in the early
episodes. But it’s this sense of
sameness and then focusing on
the differences and how you have
CARRIE COON MICHELLE MONAGHAN LESLIE BIBB to justify your life to certain types
of people that you have that
history with you.

And the Chelsea (Aimee Lee
vying for the soul or the mind Mike White: It was a Buddhist Wood) and Rick (Walton
of their younger brother, Lochlan. idea of how we see ourselves in Goggins) relationship?
Piper is on this spiritual journey the other and how certain people Mike White: Going to Thailand,
and wants to be an ascetic in our lives who are touchstones this is just anecdotal, but you do
and get away from all of the can create suffering for us just by see relationships, especially at
trappings of home and her family. existing. If you have people that some of these resorts with men
And then Saxon is the extreme of you've gone through childhood of a certain age, a kind of a May
somebody who's following in his with or have a long relationship December relationship. I thought
dad's footsteps, literally, and has with, some are more successful it would be kind of interesting to
the values of the West in the than others whether it's in career start with that type of dynamic
sense of being materialistic. And or family. There are ways that you where you think he got into it for
the way he thinks of sex, it's like a have maybe made bad decisions the sex with a younger woman
numbers game and he really and just being around those and they don't have any interest
doesn't see any kind of people scratches certain wounds, anymore. They're just bickering
sentimental, romantic or spiritual even if they don't mean to. at each other and then over time
dimension to any of it at all. And I had this idea of three friends you realize, ‘oh, actually there's
then Lochlan is caught in the that are almost interchangeable at more to this than I thought.’
middle between those two and is the beginning. They're all Actually, in a way, it's the closest
easily influenced by whomever he's blondes. They all have this voluble, the show has gotten to a real kind
with. excitable energy and then you of earnest, romantic pairing.
start to see how they're all just
An the female friendship slightly different and the jim halterman
[Michelle Monaghan as Jaclyn differences start to really unravel
Carrie Coon as Laurie their time there together. I just season 3 of the white lotus is
Leslie Bibb as Kate]? remember that there have airing on max

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