When you can imagine it, Beatrice Grannò, the Italian actress who performs native Sicilian lady and aspiring singer Mia on season two of the White Lotus, didn’t get into Italian drama faculty when she utilized. “She acquired in, I did not,” Grannò says. Questioning who the “she” is on this state of affairs is? Nicely, it is none different Simona Tabasco who performs her greatest pal and fellow native Lucia on the HBO sequence. Regardless of matriculating to completely different drama colleges (“I went to London ‘trigger Italy did not need me,” Grannò says, cheekily) Granno and Tobasco stayed pals and even filmed their auditions for The White Lotus collectively.
“We acquired it collectively after which I feel that that have of White Lotus actually introduced us nearer,” says Grannò. “We used that quite a bit additionally as a result of we had been collectively on this expertise. Two Italian ladies, like, supporting one another and that was Lucia and Mia, you realize?”
In episode two, you will discover Lucia and Mia supporting one another by taking the resort by storm, gaining unfettered entry into the enclave of the one % a lot to the chagrin of resort supervisor Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) resulting from Dominic (Michael Imperioli‘s) and his, effectively, affection for Lucia. However Grannò’s Mia is true alongside facet her, spending Dominic’s cash on garments and booze, lounging poolside, and even getting an opportunity to show her musical aspirations in an impromptu piano efficiency on the resort bar. “I’ve all the time dreamed of taking part in a musician and I, I have been taking part in the piano and singing for a very long time,” she stated. With a bit of steerage from Este Haim, of the band Haim who served as a musical marketing consultant on the sequence, Grannò was capable of make her desires a actuality.
On this week’s Nonetheless Watching podcast, Richard Lawson and Chris Murphy dive into the second episode The White Lotus and focus on whether or not good guys like Albie (Adam DiMarco) all the time end final, the rising pressure and flirtation between Cameron (Theo James) and Harper (Aubrey Plaza), and Mia and Lucia’s wild evening with Dominic. On the finish of the episode, Lawson and Murphy get into some juicy listener theories about who finally ends up floating face down within the Mediterranean at finish of the holiday. Hear beneath, and discover a partial transcript of the Beatrice Grannò interview as effectively. On your personal questions, theories please e-mail stillwatchingpod@gmail.com
On this solid, you and Simona are each outsiders on this solid of Individuals, and a variety of form of, like, very well-known American actors. What was that dynamic like?
Beatrice Grannò: I used to be going loopy as a result of I, you realize, I like Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli and Murray Abraham, so I used to be, like, “Is that this actually, like, how is that this occurring? How am I, uh, how I’m at this degree? I do not know. Am I, will I be ok? Will I be, like, good pretty much as good as they’re?'” And you realize, I felt that. I felt that hole, in fact. However then at one level, I used to be like, I imply, Mike White was on the lookout for an Italian lady who may play the piano and sing. And he needed me to have this type of, you realize, pure and harmless vibe initially. I used to be like that is good for me. Like, I used to be so fortunate that he wrote the character as a result of that was the luck second. As a result of when he was writing it, he did not know that there was an Italian lady there that was simply good. That second was fortunate for me. However as soon as I acquired there, I used to be like, “That is so unbelievable. I really feel so grateful, however on the similar time, you realize, I am serving to this present as effectively.”
You are an integral a part of the solid, proper? You are completely vital. And I like, I like that you just simply stated about, um, Mia being form of like an harmless lady, at the least at first and whatnot. Within the first episode, you throw a drink on the resort pianist, as a result of he insinuates that you are a intercourse employee. She’s form of wrestling with what she has to do to form of get forward. She says, I am, you realize, “I am a singer, I am not a prostitute.” Are you able to inform me a bit of bit about that form of juxtaposition? There’s the 2 forces inside her which can be at odds.
Yeah, however there’s something about it that’s fairly humorous. I feel Mike White sort of made that up whereas we had been working collectively, like, this joke about my character, that each time I sort of open up, like, “I need to be a singer, that is my dream.” And on the opposite facet, folks, like, misunderstands it they usually go, “So that you need to have intercourse?” Like, “Oh. You are this comfortable due to this?” And he or she goes, “No, I am simply being open. , and I am smiling and you are the piano man, not as a result of I need to have intercourse with you, however since you’re a musician. And I need to be that too.” And, and I feel the factor is, like, you realize if you need one thing actually dangerous, then you definately develop into so clumsy since you need to get there and you do not assume. You are similar to, “Perhaps I can do that, this and this.” After which whilst you do it, you simply, you realize, you tear every part aside and, like, Mia will accomplish that many mess, a lot mess. And it is like, she’s clumsy and he or she does not actually know. Like, she simply needs to play the piano. ?
I used to be so comfortable to see on this episode, you and Lucia, if you, if you acquired in, if you had that scene with Valentina and he or she was so mad, you realize? Are you able to speak to me about that? Like, Valentina, the connection between Mia and Lucia and Valentina and form of, you realize, you realize, Lucia even says, like, “Hey, you are a working lady, we’re working ladies, we’re all working right here.”
