The White Lotus Season 2 Cut Two Returning Characters
The White Lotus season 2 cut a drug-induced Tanya dream sequence that would have seen the return of two unexpected characters from season 1.
The White Lotus season 2 cut two unexpected returning characters from season 1. Created by School of Rock's Mike White, the Emmy Award-winning HBO anthology series follows the guests and employees of the titular resort chain as they embark on scandalous and, at times, deadly vacations. Jennifer Coolidge's quirky Tanya McQuiod, along with her deceitful husband Greg (played by Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Gries), are the only two characters from season 1 who returned for season 2. However, it appears there were almost two more returning characters.
The Hollywood Reporter recently caught up with Lukas Gage, who is also known for Euphoria and You, and The White Lotus season 1 star revealed that his character Dillon, a staffer at the White Lotus, and Fred Hechinger's Quinn Mossbacher, a teenager vacationing with his family, almost returned for season 2.The two actors filmed a scene in which their two characters appeared to Tanya during a drug-induced dream sequence, Gage reveals, though the scene "got cut because it didn’t work with the show."
Read what Gage shared below:
Fred [Hechinger] and I did a scene for season two. When Jennifer [Coolidge’s character] is with the gays in Palermo, she originally opens a door in the villa and sees a shot of me doing drugs that turns out to be an illusion. It got cut because it didn’t work with the show, but I didn’t care because I got a free trip to the Four Seasons. And now for season three, I’m literally writing Mike [White] every day like, hey, remember me! Read More…