HBO has quickly found a new guest to check into The White Lotus after the exit of Helena Bonham Carter.
Laura Dern has joined the series, whose fourth season is filming in France. She steps in for Carter, who exited after “the character which Mike White created for [her] did not align once on set,” per an HBO statement late last week. Dern will play a new role written for her rather than just taking over the part Carter was to have played.
White has some experience writing for Dern: He created the HBO cult favorite Enlightened, for which Dern earned a Golden Globe, and wrote and directed the 2007 movie Year of the Dog that starred Dern, Molly Shannon and John C. Reilly.
Dern also has a long history with HBO, having starred in Big Little Lies and Recount in addition to Enlightened.
More to come.
