Since its escape role in season 3 of HBO’s successful drama White lotus,, interim The offers flocked for Charlotte Le Bon.
But for the moment, the Montreal native is simply not interested.
“Moving movies is my main goal more than acting, to be honest,” said the right one in an interview at Toronto on Thursday.
The good recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival, where she held meetings looking for a financing partner for her second feature film – a drama of Montal -Shot still the victim of exploring themes of loss.
“It’s autobiographical,” explains the bilingual actor, reluctant to reveal too much.
“It is a very, very personal film and I think that the goal is to try to make a very light film on sorrow. This is a challenge, but that’s what I aim.”
Le Bon, based in Montreal, was in town for the 2025-26 programming showcase of Bell Media, where Etalk Hosts interviewed her during a spishhy event for media buyers in the last season of The white lotuswhich flows on crave.
In the series of anthologies Eat-the-Rich de Mike White, she plays Chloé, a socially informed Canadian expatriate living in Thailand with her much older boyfriend, and the main antagonist of the series, Greg, who is now going through “Gary”. She apparently does not know the story of Greg: in season 2, he succeeded in a plot to assassinate his wife Tanya, played by Jennifer Coolidge, in order to inherit her wealth.
The good said that she was ready to take a hiatus by acting when she was offered her White lotus role. Although she has built a successful career – with roles in front of Joseph Gordon -Levitt in the 2015 biographical drama The promenade and Christian Bale in the 2016 war epic The promise – His passion had moved to work behind the camera. Her 2023 Horror-Romance Lake Falconthat she directed and co-written, was presented in Cannes to a strong critical acclamation.
“I was thinking of taking a break to play because I said to myself:” Oh, I don’t know if I still love it. I just asked myself a few questions about this … I sometimes played characters who were not really inspiring for me for any reason, “she says.
“And then White lotus Arrived and I said to myself: “There is no way I can’t do that. It’s just an incredible opportunity ‘… Between the moment when I sent the auto-tape and the moment when I was on the flying plane in Thailand, there were probably 10 days ago. »»
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The good says that the experience of being part of such a mastodon of pop culture was difficult to wrap your head.
“It’s a bit overwhelming when you participate in such an important thing in culture. Even when he started to go out, when I started to see memes on social networks, it was really exciting, ”she says.
Although the theater is not its current objective, the good says that it would be indebted for season 4 – and has some ideas on the way it could be played.
“If their relationship is based on true love, which I think it is, then maybe it will come back with Greg, because Greg must come back, that’s for sure,” she said.
The good reflects that Chloé could be the accomplice of Greg or even the one who serves his inevitable co -levy.
“She could either become the ally of Greg and they can be like a duo of bad guys, or perhaps being the one who will create Karma for Greg. Maybe she will give her, ”she says.
“He must get it at some point, so we will see what’s going on.”
Although Chloé’s relationship with Greg may seem transactional on the surface, the good argues that the two share a deeper “understanding” of each other.
“I think what she likes in this relationship is that she thinks she has found a way to be free … just by spending a lot of money and partying and having sex with whom she wants,” explains the good.
“I think they find an agreement by the end of the season when it is clear that it is his intention and maybe he can participate and have fun with that too.”
If this configuration seems special, the good says it’s just the kind of thing that interests him.
“There must be a singular aspect in a game that really inspires me for me to move my buttocks and that I become actress again,” she says.
“It must be weird.”
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