The White Lotus Season 4: Cast, Location And Everything We Know So Far

One of the many thrills of The White Lotus is its ever-rotating cast and location.

From one season to the next, you’ll go from Jennifer Coolidge cutting about on a boat in Sicily, to Jason Isaacs as a desperate man on the brink of ruin in Thailand. 

With the last season of the Emmy-winning show wrapping up more than a year ago, chatter has naturally now turned to the next instalment – and what new collection of eccentrics and property porn showrunner Mike White’s brain will concoct for us.

From rumoured cast members to shooting locations, here’s everything we know about it so far…

When will The White Lotus season 4 be released?

Fans will be pleased to hear that filming for season four isn’t far off. In fact, according to Variety, it’s due to begin at the end of April and last until the end of October, meaning we can expect another sun-drenched season of the hit show.

With that in mind, it looks like we can expect the new series of The White Lotus at some point in 2027, but with no official announcement yet we’ll have to wait and see. 

Where will the next season of The White Lotus be set?

Season four will take us back to Europe after previous seasons in Thailand, Italy and Hawaii, with The White Lotus opening its doors in France this time around.

And with shooting taking place across the French riviera and Paris, it sounds like we’re in for a characteristically luxurious experience – especially if recent reports of filming at a 19th-century palace-turned-luxury hotel in Saint-Tropez are anything to go by.

What will season 4 of The White Lotus be about?

So far, creators are staying tight-lipped on what the next storyline will be. All we know for sure is that it will stick to the classic White Lotus format of following a group of guests and hotel staff over the course of a week. 

Variety has cited a combination of sources and alluded to filming dates that indicate we could see the Cannes Film Festival work its way into the plot, but for now that’s all speculation. 

Season three saw the conclusion of the plot that straddled all series of the show, surrounding Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya and her eventual demise, so we can presume that that’s now totally done and dusted, and we’re in for a completely fresh storyline.

Having said that, the show has a penchant for bringing back old characters, and with Belinda’s Natasha Rothwell setting off to start a new life at the end of season three, there’s always the possibility that we could see a return from other familiar faces in the next run.

Which actors are in the White Lotus season 4 cast?

The good news is, we have a hefty list of cast members who have already been reported to be on the call sheet.

Among them are well-known faces like Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Coogan, Vincent Cassel, Ari Graynor, Sandra Bernhard, Chris Messina, AJ Michalka (aka one half of musical duo Aly & AJ) and Alexander Ludwig, with the likes of Caleb Jonte Edwards, Corentin Fila, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Dylan Ennis and Marissa Long also believed to be checking in.  

Meanwhile, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall’s son Charlie Hall, previously seen in The Sex Life Of College Girls, will take the “nepo baby” baton from last season’s Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola when he joins the cast.

Most recently, it was announced that Kumail Nanjiani would be joining the line-up, along with New Girl actor Max Greenfield, Marvel star Chloe Bennet and Jarrad Paul.

There’s also the possibility that we’ll see some unexpected guest stars later down the line, as was the case during last season’s surprise appearance from Sam Rockwell.

What have the creators of The White Lotus said about season 4? 

While White Lotus creator Mike White is keeping his cards pretty close to his chest for the time being, he dropped a few season four tidbits in a recent interview with W Magazine.

He spoke about shooting his latest stint on the reality show Survivor six months before kicking off his White Lotus prep, explaining: “I came up with the concept of the show and the characters while I was there. But I don’t know if the experience itself really influenced it.” 

Mike explained that the experience of returning from Survivor, and seeing the social media of people who he’d bonded with on the show, shaped his thinking for the series.

“I don’t know if that’s exactly the theme of the next season of White Lotus, but it’s definitely something I’ve thought about a lot – prioritising likes or the attention of strangers over creating real relationships,” he noted.

Pressed on what the new season will be about, the creator said “it’s a bit about fame, about who has the world’s attention, who is the plus-one, and how that can organise a relationship”. 

“Some people are satisfied with the love of just an intimate partner, and some people need the love of strangers and a bigger kind of attention,” he elaborated.

And after the high melodrama of guns, blood and parables we saw in season three, last year Mike said he was keen to return to themes more aligned with season one in an interview for the official White Lotus podcast.

“Maybe something a little bit back to the first season where it’s satirising stuff that I know about,” he pondered. 

“Art and criticism and movies and fame and celebrity and a film festival type of thing, or like an art world sort of situation. It just feels like that would be some kind of new theme to get into that’s maybe a little less heady than what we just did, but still have some juice to it.”

The first three seasons of The White Lotus are available to stream on Sky and Now in the UK.