‘The White Lotus’ Season 2: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date, & More

The White Lotus was 1 of the champion shows connected tv successful 2021 — and it’s returning for play 2 successful 2022! Mike White created the HBO comedy-drama bid which follows guests and employees astatine the fictional White Lotus resort. The archetypal play was acceptable successful Hawaii and featured an all-star formed including Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, Sydney Sweeney, Murray Bartlett, and Molly Shannon. It scored immense ratings for HBO and won ten Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited oregon Anthology Series. Following the astonishment occurrence of the show, HBO renewed The White Lotus for a 2nd season.

The White Lotus is present an anthology bid and each play volition diagnostic a caller formed playing characters connected abrogation successful a caller place. The 2nd play volition instrumentality spot successful Italy and is titled The White Lotus: Sicily. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir play 2 of The White Lotus, including the cast, merchandise date, and more.

Jennifer Coolidge is returning for play 2 of ‘The White Lotus’ (Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO)

The White Lotus Season 2 Premiere Date

Season 2 of The White Lotus will premiere successful October 2022 connected HBO. The nonstop premiere day has yet to beryllium announced. The amusement returns implicit a twelvemonth aft play 1 debuted successful July 2021. It’s unclear however galore episodes play 2 volition have. The archetypal play featured six episodes that were released play connected HBO. The amusement is besides disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.

The White Lotus Season 2 Filming

Production on The White Lotus: Sicily began connected February 28, 2022. The formed filmed astatine the Four Seasons San Domenica Palace successful Taormina, Sicily in Italy. Filming officially wrapped successful July 2022. The pursuing month, HBO announced that play 2 would premiere successful October. The archetypal play of The White Lotus filmed astatine the Four Seasons Resort Maui successful Hawaii successful precocious 2020, successful the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘The White Lotus: Sicily’ (Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO)

Season 2 Cast

Of the archetypal main The White Lotus cast, only Jennifer Coolidge is returning for the 2nd season. She’s backmost arsenic Tanya McQuoid-Hunt, who traveled to Hawaii successful play 1 to dispersed her precocious mother’s ashes. Jon Gries is besides returning arsenic Greg, who was Tanya’s romanticist involvement successful Hawaii. The remainder of the play 1 cast, which besides includes Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Natasha Rothwell, and Steven Zahn, won’t look successful the 2nd season.

Now it’s clip to speech astir the celebrated faces joining The White Lotus: Sicily. F. Murray Abraham is starring arsenic an aged man, Bert Di Grasso. Michael Imperioli will play Bert’s father, Dominic Di Grasso, while Adam DiMarco volition play Dominic’s lad Albie Di Grasso, a caller assemblage graduate. Theo James and Meghann Fahy are playing hubby and woman duo Cameron and Daphne Babcock. Aubrey Plaza and Will Sharpe are playing Harper and Ethan Spiller, who are married, and are vacationing with Cameron and Daphne. Rounding retired the formed is Tom Hollander arsenic Quentin, an English expat traveling with his friends and nephew; Haley Lu Richardson as Portia, a young pistillate moving for Tanya; and Sabrina Impacciatore as Valentina, the manager of the White Lotus edifice successful Sicily.

‘The White Lotus: Sicily’ (Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO)

What Will Happen In Season 2?

Season 2 of The White Lotus is going to beryllium “totally different” than play 1, according to Aubrey Plaza. “I cognize it’s a batch to unrecorded up to, but Mike is truthful bully astir making the 2nd play different,” the histrion told Entertainment Tonight successful August. “It’s inactive ‘The White Lotus,’ but present it’s successful Italy, truthful it has a wholly antithetic vibe and so, I deliberation radical are going to beryllium surprised.”

Creator Mike White, who besides directs and produces the series, told Deadline that The White Lotus: Sicily will woody with “a caller mystery” that involves “sexual politics.” In an interrogation with Vulture, Mike confirmed that a large storyline volition impact the frenemy narration betwixt Aubrey and Meghann’s characters. He besides said helium wanted to stray distant from “colonialism” successful the 2nd season. “I didn’t cognize that I had the gumption to wade into those waters again, knowing I was going to get sniper occurrence from each direction,” helium said. “Maybe the classical intersexual politics, the naughty subversive worldly we’re getting into, volition instrumentality the borderline disconnected a small spot from that.”

Fans are hoping that determination volition beryllium galore much seasons of The White Lotus. Before the amusement got renewed for play 2, Mike White told TVLine however much installations of the franchise could work. “It would person to beryllium a antithetic hotel, like, say, The White Lotus: San Tropez oregon something,” helium said. “I don’t deliberation you tin credibly person [all the Season 1 guests] connected the aforesaid abrogation again. But possibly it could beryllium a Marvel beingness benignant thing, wherever immoderate of them would travel back.”