‘The White Lotus’ Star Predicts Which Character Will Return for Season 4

The third season of The White Lotus just ended, and fans are already looking to the next season for more. The fourth season of the Emmy-winning HBO hit was greenlit ahead of season three’s premiere in February, per Forbes. Now, fans want to know if any characters will return for another round, as has been done with every past season.

In an interview with Variety, season three cast member Sam Nivola (Lochlan Ratliff on the series) predicted a continuation of an ongoing “money” storyline dating back to Jennifer Coolidge’s late character, Tanya McQuoid.

“I think that [showrunner Mike White] wants to keep the common thread extending from Tanya,” Nivola said in the interview. “The whole thing is her story as it relates to her money. If I had to guess, I’d say Nick Duvernay [who plays Zion] is gonna be the next one to come back, because he and Belinda made off with all the money.”

White Lotus fans first met Coolidge’s wealthy character in season one, which was set at a resort in Maui. It was there that she befriended spa manager Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) and made plans to go into business with her, But Tanya backed out when she met Greg Hunt (Jon Gries), whom she later married. Tanya returned for the second season, which was set at a White Lotus resort in Sicily. She died after slipping while fleeing from what she believed was her husband’s plot to murder her for her money.

For season three, Belinda traveled to The White Lotus in Thailand,  where she met a lover, Pornchai (Dom Hetrakul) at the resort and made plans to go into business with him. The season ended with Hunt (now known as Gary) wiring Belinda $5 million in exchange for keeping her mouth shut about the story of his wife’s death. Belinda's son Zion, who played hardball regarding the payment amount, felt it was a fair deal, so Belinda cut ties with Pornchai and rode off into the sunset with her son as a multi-millionaire.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, White revealed that he came up with the ending for season three early on. “The ending was kinda the first thing I really thought of — Belinda leaving with money and leaving somebody in the same way she got left [in the first season],” he said.

As for Rothwell, she admitted that she would love to come back for season four. And Gries, the only actor to appear in all three seasons of The White Lotus teased, “Yes, I would love to come back. But does the book on Greg seem like it’s complete? I can’t tell you.”

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