The White Lotus creator Mike White is shedding more light on the scheduling conflict that prevented Woody Harrelson from appearing on Season 3 of the hit HBO show. On Tuesday’s The Howard Stern Show, Stern asked White about what happened after The Hollywood Reporter revealed the actor was in final talks to appear on the show. “We were going to Bangkok at the very end” of shooting, White said, and Harrelson “only had to work like two weeks or something—and our schedule kept changing, our shoot extended, there was weather stuff, and all that,” leading to the “family vacation” conflict Harrelson previously cited as the reason he missed the boat to the third season’s fictional Thailand resort. While the original report cited sources that claimed Harrelson had been trying to increase his pay before dropping out, his reps told The Daily Beast that his leaving the show “wasn’t about money.” White said Harrelson’s conflict was “very White Lotus bougie,” because he had pre-planned “a huge destination birthday somewhere in Europe or something.” In the end, White said, “All his friends had already bought tickets and were coming, and so it just no longer seemed feasible” for Harrelson to appear on the show. White also confirmed that he had only considered Harrelson to play Sam Rockwell’s character Frank—and not Walton Goggins’ larger role as Rick.
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