“It was quite funny.
Are fan interactions any different now post-White Lotus?
WILL SHARPE:I guess they’re more frequent, maybe, is the main thing.
Aubrey Plaza, Will Sharpe, Theo James, and Meghann Fahy on ‘The White Lotus’.Fabio Lovino/HBO
I don’t know if they’re any different.
You’re not on social media, but the season had a major social media presence.
Were you aware of the NSFW tweets about Ethan?
Will Sharpe on ‘The White Lotus’.Courtesy of HBO
Do you remember what it felt like to become aware of the fervor in real-time?
And it was sort of an icebreaker.
What was that dynamic like offscreen?
Meghann Fahy and Will Sharpe on ‘The White Lotus’.Fabio Lovino/HBO
Were you able to spend time together?
Yeah, there were some cast dinners and things.
I had a few interactions with her.
Will Sharpe and Aubrey Plaza on ‘The White Lotus’.Fabio Lovino/HBO
I found her to be very interesting and definitely sort of delivers on your expectations.
I found her to be a person who was interested in other people as well.
So from across the room, I could often see her and Tom Hollander doing their thing.
She’s so great.
I feel like there were different gradations of it.
It does create some kind of shift in Ethan.
Because it felt like the script was implicitly ambiguous.
We obviously had to play something.
It definitely felt like something was probably about to happen.
I remember taking a pause at the end of the walk before leaving the frame.
And if it’s a negative thing, I wanted him to be held accountable.
The first time I read the script, I sort of thought all that sex stuff was comical.
It definitely required a certain kind of vulnerability, I think, on both our parts.
Because Ethan and Harper start off saying, “Oh, we’re really honest with each other.”
And they’re not at all, really.
How do you look back at that experience of filming now?
And sometimes that’s not a very comfortable place.
It felt like he was going through some kind of existential change or crisis.
There’s various ways of interpreting the show.
When it was coming out, I was just happy that people seemed to be responding to it.
And here we are still talking about it.
I also want to talk aboutCrying in H Mart.
It’s going really well.
But I’m excited about how it’s going.
I’m excited about the team that we’re assembling.
And the casting has been really interesting, very exciting.
We’ve had a really huge response to that call out.
Watch this space, I guess.
How did it fall into your lap?
Is there a script yet?
There is a script.
Michelle, who wrote the book, it’s her story, she’s written the script.
It was sent to me alongside the book.
Also, her journey of losing her mother, I found incredibly affecting.
We all just seemed to click very easily.
Is this the first time you’ve crossed paths?
I was a fan of her music already, but we’d never met.
WithWhite LotusandH Martunder your belt, what project or role would you want to tackle next?
I don’t know.
He was such a sort of enigma.
I guess in the past, I’ve played characters normally who are more overtly like a character role.
It was really fun to do the cathartic, more explosive scenes towards the end of the season.
So yeah, anything that is challenging and surprising is welcome.
