As the highly anticipated season 3 finale of The White Lotus approaches, fans aren’t the only ones eagerly awaiting the dramatic conclusion to the hit HBO series. Cast members, including Parker Posey, who portrays Victoria Ratliff, are also on edge, eager to uncover the fate of their characters. Posey admitted during a recent interview that although she might have known how the season would end at one point, the details have slipped her mind.
“I forgot who died,” Posey shared in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It was so stressful when I read it. The dark stuff, I blazed through.” While Posey’s character may not be the one meeting an untimely end, she, like the audience, is left in suspense, eagerly awaiting the final moments of the season.
The season 3 finale, which will air on April 6, promises to be another gripping conclusion that will likely keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Fans of The White Lotus know all too well that each season concludes with a shocking death, and creator Mike White has hinted that this finale will be no different.
Posey’s co-star, Patrick Schwarzenegger, who plays her onscreen son Saxon, revealed that he, too, is in the dark about how the season will conclude. “I’m just excited to watch the finale with the rest of the world because I actually have no idea what happens,” Schwarzenegger told The Hollywood Reporter. His excitement to experience the finale alongside viewers underscores the level of secrecy that surrounds the show’s plot twists.
Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jason Isaacs, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola in The White Lotus. FABIO LOVINO/HBO
As is typical with The White Lotus, the season 3 finale has been tightly guarded, with spoilers kept to an absolute minimum. Jon Gries, who made a surprising return to the show after possibly being involved in the shocking death of Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya in season 2, teased that viewers will be left shocked. “Whatever you think you know, you’re going to get it wrong,” Gries teased, building anticipation for the highly secretive ending.
Mike White Promises an “Epic” Finale
Creator Mike White has been known for his meticulous attention to detail, particularly when it comes to the finale of each season. White expressed his excitement about the upcoming finale, which will run for an hour and a half. “As a filmmaker, it’s probably the piece of work that I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I did that,’” White said, hinting that the episode will be a major achievement in his career.
White also addressed the inevitable reactions to the finale, acknowledging that viewers will have differing opinions. “People are going to hate Mike White,” said Charlotte Le Bon, who plays Chloe in the new season. She jokingly added that the finale will likely leave fans in emotional turmoil.
White, however, hopes the finale will leave viewers feeling a bittersweet sense of closure. “My hope is that it’ll feel like a cathartic sad or a satisfying sad and not a ‘What the f—?’ sad,” White said. “But people are going to have a million different opinions. You just hope you stick the landing.” Given the history of shocking twists on the show, fans are bracing for an ending that will likely leave them talking long after the credits roll.
Keeping the Finale Under Wraps
To ensure that the series finale remains a mystery until it airs, The White Lotus team has taken extreme measures to prevent leaks. Executive producer David Bernad explained that the show goes to great lengths to keep the secret of the finale under wraps. “We have fake endings to the scripts,” Bernad said. “So we wrote up — we have six different endings — and we kind of distributed fake endings to people just in case someone leaked anything, and then we could say there’s different fake endings.”
This attention to secrecy extends to the set as well. Bernad explained that when filming the final scenes, the set is “locked down,” and non-production personnel are never allowed access to crucial scenes. This level of security helps to preserve the mystery of the finale and keeps spoilers from reaching the public before the episode airs.
Maria Shriver’s Curiosity About the Finale
The anticipation surrounding the White Lotus season 3 finale is so intense that even those close to the cast are feeling the suspense. Schwarzenegger’s mother, Maria Shriver, took to Instagram on April 3 to address the question she has been asked repeatedly: What will happen to her son Saxon?
“I may be on a book tour promoting my new book, I Am Maria, but everywhere I go everyone keeps asking me about @patrickschwarzenegger, about @thewhitelotus, about what’s going to happen to Saxon, if he’s going to die,” Shriver wrote on Instagram, alongside an edited image of her book cover, which read “I Am Patrick’s Mother” instead of “I Am Maria.”
Shriver humorously noted that, despite being the mother of one of the show’s central characters, she knows just as little as the rest of the world about Saxon’s fate. “I may be Patrick’s mother, but I know NOTHING! No one believes me, but it’s true,” she wrote, inviting fans to speculate on what might happen in the finale before encouraging them to check out her own book.
The humorous post illustrates the level of curiosity that surrounds the fate of The White Lotus characters, even among those closest to the cast.
The White Lotus Finale Is Almost Here
As the clock ticks down to the highly anticipated White Lotus season 3 finale, both the cast and the fans are on edge, eagerly awaiting the revelations that will come with it. With promises of shocking twists, emotional farewells, and possibly another shocking death, the finale is set to be one for the ages.
The season 3 finale of The White Lotus will air on Sunday, April 6, at 9 p.m. ET on Max. Fans can expect the unexpected as the series continues its tradition of exploring the darker side of luxury, human relationships, and the secrets that lie beneath the surface of the idyllic locations where the show is set.
As viewers prepare for the final moments of the season, the cast and crew are just as eager to see how the story concludes, with many of them admitting they are just as much in the dark as the audience. One thing is for certain: when The White Lotus wraps up on April 6, it’s sure to leave fans talking long after the credits roll.
