Parker Posey
Appearances
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
We flew over the North Pole.
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
I was also at Tar Heel. But Timothy went to Duke. Saxon graduated Duke. Laughlin, our youngest, just got accepted to both. So you can imagine, it's a whole thing.
Fresh Air
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
Pam, would you please escort them to the villa? Certainly. Please enjoy. Right this way. Enjoy. Thank you.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You're doing it right.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You know, she's like doing her little moves by the pool. Yeah.
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Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Hugely. Yeah.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
That's super relatable, I think.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yeah, right.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Should we just go for both?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I think it sounds familiar to her. Yeah. Somewhere around. She could be reminded about it, you know?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, okay. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, imagine that person who doesn't know where they're going, you know, landing there. But she's had the help of her pills. And she's very strong-willed. She wants to be close to her family, which is just staying in her room, getting some massage, going back to the room, ordering in, and being as cozy as she can be with her perfect family.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, right. Yeah. You know, Mike White is like, he's an actor too. You know, he's an actor. He's a very strong writer. And on set, he felt like an acting buddy. And a lot of the actors talked about this where he kind of takes over, he takes what you're giving him and he'll mirror it back to you and then play a little as the camera's rolling. And... yeah, just add whatever.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So that was fun to be able to create and to work like that. I have no idea what has been edited or what has been used because I haven't seen it and I don't like to watch myself, but I heard that I could trust Mike and just like a crazy quilt, right? Like this is how he works. He gets a lot of material and then in the editing it becomes the white lotus thing that it's supposed to be.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So it was a really fun way to work and it was like an extreme sport actually. It was kind of improvisational but also very, you know, it was extreme. We traveled a lot, right? But we also got to play. And I was so blown away just to be in another country like Thailand. I'd never been to Asia.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I feel like she's living in a man's world in these conditions that are so opposed to her as a woman. Like men and women are so different. Like this is a dopamine dominated family of achieving and being something that's really important. but it's not authentic. And I think she's really kind of, she's so distorted in how she's looking at her family.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
She's doesn't, she's a fragmented person, spoiled, rotten. I think she came from a lot of money and was allowed to create the reality, you know, around her. But I don't think it's hers. That's a great question. I think you know, southern women, the archetypal, like, Tennessee Williams character.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
You know, for me, I thought a lot about that kind of stuff, and as a performer, being able to finally do something like that, which I love. But this, you know, Maggie the Cat, you know,
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
like a cat on a hot tin roof and just like this passion and this like it's so human and it's so female and the southern drama of um you know being able to live with your feelings and your needs and your passion um is is is just so great for tv It's great when you travel around the world and people go, where are you from? And you say America, and they come up with that southern accent.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
People love to imitate it. And so these Mike White shows and the White Lotus are a lot like the Christopher Guest movies. And our time right now is very memeable. It's like, it's not just a show, it's part of the zeitgeist and it's that kind of show that people will bring into their homes and then they get to kind of live through these parts. My family was like that.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
They loved, you know, the Chris Guest movies and it made them laugh and they get to see through the characters that Mike has created, people that we've seen in real life that we kind of go like, oh my God, I can't believe she's, that person's like that yet. I've seen that person. I've seen that person, I know this person. So there's a real, there's a glee in this world.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
But I think she's, Victoria, I think she's drowning in a lot of ways. But she looks at her son and she sees her father. So she's choosing these ways to look at her reality and her world. And there's a lot of power in that. I don't think it's been the best for her kids that she indulges herself in such a narcissistic way. But I loved being able to portray that. So that was really fun.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yeah, yeah.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I love denial. Denial is very real, darling. And I think that's what it is, is like, I know it. No, I don't. I denied it. Right, so when she's asking, is there something, she's like... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's an alliance. I think he has a lot on his plate in having to protect a woman like Victoria.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I think the stakes of making her such a mess and someone that you think needs a lot of help and can't exist without him, which I know he believes... But then we're like, no, this woman, the woman behind the man, right? And she's the one with the force. So it was really fun to play those shades in a couple and in a family. We were wondering that from the beginning.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Exactly, yeah. I always want to bring theater into my work and and those tropes of drama. And so Mike, what he's done is he's kind of like a playwright in this way of, I don't know of anyone else who's been able to be so theatrical and classic in this Chekhovian way and this high drama, you know, whodunit, like we all love a mystery.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
We all love an archetype of someone that we've seen before, like come to life. So he brings a lot of humor to that and a lot of joy to that. I mean, the jokes were so good. He gave me such, she has such great lines. She has incredible lines. I was screaming laughing.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
But like those kinds of people that are like, where did you go today? And then they say something completely, you know, completely different.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Patrick. Oh, we guessed wrong. I thought it would be Lockie.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I think Patrick, I think Lachlan carries her sensitivity and her shadow in a way. And that she's very tender with him and knows his sensitivity. But he reminds her of her own sensitivity. because she's such a narcissist. I think she's like, I think she probably... Saxon has more armor. I think she protects him intensely in her heart, you know? And with all our kids, Piper is her father's daughter.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
She is going to be fine, you know? But the boys are a bit more... untethered or like a little wild but there's something to you know I think Saxon's bravado that just reminds her of her granddaddy you know just that kind of thing so when she sees him she's just looking at him going That's my grandfather. Oh, my God. It's like Bubby all over him. You know, just this like joy.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
And there's so, I think she's got a lot of heart. You know, I think there's a lot of love there and passion. It's really, it was really fun to play.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Thank you, guys. Thank you so much.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Thank you.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Come here.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
They're testing it in real time.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Let's find out.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Her top comes off. Her top comes off.