Haley Lu Richardson Interview: White Lotus, Working with Brett Dier, Owen Teague & More

As we often talk about on Collider Ladies Night, every path in this business is different and those paths often evolve along the way. That’s exactly what happened to The White Lotus’ Haley Lu Richardson.

Richardson plays Portia on Season 2 of the hit HBO show. This time around, creator, writer and director Mike White takes the luxury, overindulgence, and often awful behavior to a White Lotus resort in Taormina, Sicily. The only main character from Season 1 to bounce from one getaway to the next is Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid, and this time around, she's bringing her assistant, Richardson’s Portia, along for the ride.

With The White Lotus well into its Season 2 run, Richardson joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to revisit her early Disney and Nickelodeon ambitions and to discuss how she went on to build a filmography packed with bold genre movies, touching romantic dramas, independent gems, and spicy satire with The White Lotus.

Listen to the uncut version of this conversation here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JVE...

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00:00 Dicey Questions
05:07 Disney & Nickelodeon Dreams
06:40 Pivoting & The Last Survivors
08:40 Brett Dier
10:08 Owen Teague
11:08 The White Lotus' Portia
14:45 Working with Jennifer Coolidge