Laura Dern has joined the cast of The White Lotus season 4, coming after Helena Bonham Carter left the series shortly after filming began, but most importantly, Dern does not reprise the role of Bonham Carter but plays a completely new character created by showrunner Mike White.
The casting brings together White and Dern under the HBO banner.
The couple previously co-created the HBO series Enlightenedin which Dern also starred and collaborated on White’s film Year of the Dog.
Dern also made an uncredited vocal appearance in White Lotus season 2.
Dern joins an already strong ensemble that includes Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Kumail Nanjiani, Chris Messina, Alexander Ludwig, Rosie Perez, Heather Graham, Sandra Bernhard, AJ Michalka, Chloe Bennet, Max Greenfield and many more.
Season 4 is set against the glamorous backdrop of the Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera, with locations including Saint-Tropez, Monaco and Paris.
The hotels presented are the Château de la Messardière des Airelles and the Hôtel Martinez, reinvented in White Lotus properties for show.
White serves as writer, director and executive producer, with David Bernad and Mark Kamine also producing.
Dern is one of Hollywood’s most decorated performers.
She has been nominated for nine Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series in 2017 for Big little liesand a three-time Academy Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actress in 2020 for Marriage story.
Its wider credits cover the Jurassic Park franchise, Little women And Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
