It is a few days before the penultimate episode of The White Lotus season three drops, and Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon and Michelle Monaghan are convening virtually to discuss their fascinating and disturbingly accurate depiction of female friendship.
Their characters โ Jaclyn (Monaghan), an actress newly married to a younger man; Laurie (Coon), a single mum and lawyer; and Kate (Bibb), a wealthy wife from Texas โ are childhood friends on a girlsโ trip in Thailand that has all the tension and suspense of a horror movie.
Who cares about a corpse when you have got friends wondering if you have sandblasted your face?
To help make that dynamic believable, Bibb says the trio began a text thread after they were cast as a way to brainstorm the charactersโ shared history. โWe were like, โOK, how old were we [when we] met?โ I think we decided on seven, eight,โ she says.
โWhere are we from? I think we picked Ohio, Midwest [in the US]. Then, we just started sending photos of ourselves when we were kids. And it was really nice to have that because you can just look at it and suddenly youโre like, โOh, I do know this personโ.โ