Parker Posey: White Lotus cast were 'always' going to hospital
Parker Posey has claimed 'The White Lotus' cast were "always" going to hospital during filming in Thailand.
Parker Posey has claimed 'The White Lotus' cast were "always" going to hospital during filming.
The 56-year-old actress fell ill while shooting the drama in Thailand but admitted she wasn't the only one as a number of her co-stars sought medical treatment, and found it to be a very pleasurable experience.
She told Sunday Times Style magazine: “There was a piece of fish that left me and Sam Nivola, who plays my youngest son, on a few weeks of plain rice and pasta with the D-word and constipation alternating …
" [People] were always going to the hospital and coming back like they’d had the time of their lives. Thai hospitals were so nice, you could do everything there … you could get Botox and medicine easily, and waiting in line wasn’t a thing.”
Though Parker found shooting the show to be "magical", it was also an "endurance test" because of the heat.
She said: “Filming was such a tidal wave of authentic experience — very exotic and magical and alive, and it really was an endurance test.
"The heat was pretty intense. In my first scene I wore a long-sleeved dress and they needed a hairdryer between takes because the sweat shows through.
"There were all these stories of people seeing snakes. Walton [Goggins] saw a monitor lizard eat a frog. Often I felt, aargh — like Tippi Hedren in 'The Birds'.”
The 'You've Got Mail' actress found Thailand to be a great place to embrace self-care and admitted she's got much better at looking after herself as a result.
She said: “I wasn’t good at all that until now, but now I had all these massages, I got on board with all the supplements I needed, I did sound baths, reiki, Pilates. It felt needed. And the Thai culture is just so wise, it makes you feel, oh, I was so stupid taking this stuff personally.
“It’s all a path and it’s about protecting yourself."
The 'Dazed and Confused' star used to divide her time between an apartment in Manhattan and a country farmhouse in upstate New York but has sold the former property.
She said: “It was too much to carry both. Now I need to put more windows in my kitchen and open it up a bit so I can hop on the counter and look at the birds. I’m obsessed with deVOL kitchens. But I still love the city, I go and stay with friends.”
