Natasha Rothwell had greater than a handful of first-day jitters when she walked again on the set of The White Lotus.
The actress — who starred in season 1 as Belinda, a spa supervisor who shaped a decent bond with Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya — is the one returning forged member for the highly-anticipated third season, however even she had just a few bumps within the highway as she slipped again into character.
“Carrie Coon gave me the very best descriptor. She’s like, ‘It is like placing on a moist bathing swimsuit,'” Rothwell tells PEOPLE of getting ready to revisit Belinda.
“You recognize it suits. You recognize it suits. And you understand, when you get within the water, it may really feel great. However it’s additionally just a bit… You are similar to, ‘Wait a minute, does the arm go right here? Okay.’ And you then soar in, you are like, ‘Oh, I understand how… I do know this.'”
The precise legwork of getting herself again into the mindset of the character was one factor, however Rothwell, 43, admits that there was one other main roadblock within the early days of filming.
“These are those that I idolized rising up, and so sharing the display with them, I had such imposter syndrome,” she says, referring to the spectacular slate of costars that features Parker Posey (who “known as me in the present day”) and Michelle Monaghan, who lately moderated a panel about Rothwell’s new Hulu sequence, Die Alone.
“Even asking Michelle to average a panel, I advised my workforce, I used to be like, ‘She is Michelle Monaghan. There is no approach she’s going to do it.’ And we have been so shut in Thailand — we have been all so shut — and she or he actually responded so quick, [she] was like, ‘Completely,'” Rothwell shares. “She got here ready. She had watched the sequence, and it is simply… You create a household if you do White Lotus.”
A bit of recommendation from one other one in every of her A-list costars, Carrie Coon, additionally helped Rothwell really feel safe in herself on set.
“Carrie was truly the one who introduced me again to Earth, as a result of she was similar to, ‘We’re all nervous to fulfill you since you have been season one. You are, like, the OG.'”
It isn’t simply Posey, Monaghan and Coon that Rothwell has bonded with, although. It is “each single individual within the forged,” she says. “We’re on textual content chains… It is obnoxious, I believe.”
She praises creator Mike White for creating such a robust sense of camaraderie on set — and never simply as soon as, however 3 times over. “He has the Midas contact. He is excellent at creating that chemistry.”
“That is the factor that I’ll say is similar as season one: the connections you make on a White Lotus set are legit,” she continues.
Equally to Monaghan, her costar Leslie Bibb additionally stepped up lately to assist Rothwell make “some movies to advertise [How to Die Alone]. She’s like, ‘I am there.'”
“Having individuals present up for me can also be a kind of pinch me moments the place it is similar to… I’ve performed it a lot for different individuals, I by no means anticipate reciprocity,” she says. “And so it has been actually cool to see that from all the castmates I’ve ever had, however White Lotus notably has been tremendous supportive.”
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Seasons 1 and a couple of of The White Lotus might be streamed on HBO Max.