Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday’s season finale ofThe White Lotus.
What a crappy way to die.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, you murderer.
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Why’d you have to go and kill Armond?
Because otherwise it’s just going to be likeMy Dinner with Andre in Hawaiior something.
He has his best scene ever.
Murray Bartlett on ‘The White Lotus’.Mario Perez/HBO
And then he has the ultimate act of defiance where he craps in someone’s bag.
And I was like, “There’s really nowhere else to go from here.”
But this is your swan song.
Alexandra Daddario and Jake Lacy in ‘The White Lotus.'.Mario Perez/HBO
So it felt like the right ending for him.
It was always built into it.
We don’t keep coming back to it.
Like, “Why are they playing this music?
Why am I so stressed?”
Or was that put in digitally later?
The actual closeup is a prop.
But the wide shot from the side is a CGI shot coming out of him.
[Laughs] We actually went to multiple CGI houses.
My editor and the assistant were like, “This doesn’t look right.”
I was like, “Well, it shouldn’t.
I don’t know,shouldit look really real?
Maybe that’s too much for people to handle.
Maybe it should look a little fake.”
They’re like, “No, we’ve got to make it look real.”
So we went through a long process to get just the perfect shooting motion.
Well, it worked.
I mean, it looks real soooo… congratulations, I guess?
What’s funny is I think I told Murray that it would never be in the show.
I was like, “We just need this just to set you.
But we’re not going to actually use it.”
And I don’t think I’ve ever told him.
I don’t know if he…
I assume he’s seen it.
He seems very happy.
So how angry can you be with her for at least acknowledging that?
In a way, Belinda may have given her the therapy speak for her to do that.
Belinda’s helped her at Belinda’s own peril, in a sense.
So she’s got the language to be like, “I don’t need another transactional relationship.
And that meansyou.”
And that’s the painful part.
And then we see her tell him, “Everything’s fine.
I’m happy, I promise.
I’ll be happy.”
It just crushed me.
Why have her ultimately crawl back to this total a-hole?
I loved it for the show, but hated it for her.
I knewThe Emoji Moviewasn’t going to be good and I did it.
So sometimes money and the lifestyle does draw you in.
Like, she doesn’t really leave in a definitive manner, I feel like.
And, at first, she wants to be able to have her cake and eat it too.
She wants to have the lifestyle and also have the power and the relationship.
And it just doesn’t happen that way.
And I think, by the end, she’s thinking maybe she can compromise.
What were you trying to say with that scene at the end there?
And I just thought bookending the show where you have all of these people greeting them at the beginning.
And the guests move on to the next thing.
It just felt like it was, “Well, this is kind of a devastating moment.”
But it feels like it’s true to the story.
