{"id":84186,"date":"2025-08-22T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:21:11","slug":"parker-poseys-alternate-white-lotus-ending-and-a-scream-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84186\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Posey’s Alternate ‘White Lotus’ Ending And A ‘Scream’ Spin-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis week\u2019s Take Ten guest is the inimitable Parker Posey<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tEmmy nominated for her role of Victoria Ratliff in The White Lotus, Posey has recently inspired viewers around the world to shout \u201cPiper noooooo\u201d Victoria-style, and to possibly channel Victoria this Halloween (watch the video for Posey\u2019s instructions on that).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Take Ten video interview, Posey reveals she has not yet seen The White Lotus. However, she read all the scripts up front when she took the role, and recalls being so entranced that she actually blanked out which characters died in the finale.<\/a> \u201cI could tell you how I felt reading it,\u201d she says. \u201cI got so carried away with the story that I didn\u2019t remember who got shot and died<\/a>, because I loved Rick [Walton Goggins] and Chelsea [Aimee Lou Wood]. Then, when I met them it was even bigger and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, Posey has an alternate ending in mind. \u201cI\u2019ve been pitching it for a while now,\u201d she says. \u201cVictoria Ratliff in the water on a boat in a Lorazepam commercial.\u201d Posey also gets into who would win in a one-line-off between Victoria Ratliff and Jennifer Coolidge\u2019s Tanya McQuoid character\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tPosey\u2019s inspiration for Victoria\u2019s character came from her own upbringing in the South, she says. \u201cShe is a mix of characters and accents that I heard growing up,\u201d she says. \u201cI said the lines in my head of that kind of cadence. I practiced a lot so it was technical, and then I had fun with it. I\u2019m from the South, and it\u2019s full of characters. The dialects alone and the way people talk is so charming and funny.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Parker<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tParker Posey as Victoria Ratliff in \u2018The White Lotus\u2019 Season 3<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Max<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of accents, Posey says there are a couple she hasn\u2019t explored yet, but would love to have a go at: \u201cI\u2019d love to do an English part. Or Boston. Park the caaarr.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also says she didn\u2019t have to help her English co-star and onscreen husband Jason Isaacs with his North Carolina accent, although they did watch the reality show Southern Charm as research. \u201cHe\u2019s got a great ear,\u201d she says. \u201cYou know, the English love their dialects, and the English and the South have a similar cadence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCreating Victoria had a deeply personal resonance for Posey, in that she felt like she was honoring her family, especially her late father. \u201cYou know, my dad was a very funny man,\u201d she says. \u201cBoth my parents are funny people, and my extended family too, dramatic and funny, but my dad, he said, \u2018Parker. You are so funny.\u2019 I love that this came about after my dad\u2019s passing, because I got to carry him in this performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPosey also gets into her favorite memories of being on The White Lotus set. \u201cOne of my favorite memories is landing there [in Thailand], going to my room, seeing insects in the background, smoke coming out of a [mosquito repellant] coil. And then [show creator] Mike White comes out of the woods. He\u2019s like, \u2018Hi!\u2019 He\u2019s got like this hat on. He\u2019s sweating, he\u2019s red. He\u2019s appeared out of nowhere\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jason<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJason Isaacs and Parker Posey in \u2018The White Lotus\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a dancer growing up, Posey says she loved seeing co-star LiSA (Lalisa Manobal) as Mook, performing the ceremonial dance scenes shot at the Rosewood Phuket resort. \u201cOne of my favorite moments of beauty was watching Lisa perform the night scenes at the Rosewood. It\u2019s such a beautiful country and kingdom and seeing Lisa and the rest of the dancers rehearse that scene on stage with the costumes, it really looked like an apparition. It looked like they came down from the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPosey has Martin McDonagh\u2019s film Wild Horse Nine coming up, in which she will reunite with White Lotus co-star Sam Rockwell, but she is also mulling over revisiting a couple of her previous roles, starting with Josie and the Pussycats \u2013 which, she says, already has a reboot of sorts in the works. \u201cYou\u2019re reminding me, I need to call my agent, \u201d she says. \u201cI heard about it, but I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with it. A sequel to Josie and the Pussycats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdd to that, with her Scream 3 history a<\/a>s Jennifer Jolie, who met her untimely end in the film, Posey has a really fun and different idea for the Scream franchise: \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to pitch my idea for Stab, the Scream movie,\u201d she says. \u201cThe movie-within-the-movie called Stab that, of course, I would be alive in, and I would be able to be in it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Courteney<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tCourteney Cox and Parker Posey in \u2018Scream 3\u2019 (2000)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is Posey\u2019s second Emmy nomination, her first being for her role in last year\u2019s Mr & Mrs Smith, and she has long been known as \u201cQueen of the Indies\u201d \u2013 a title bestowed upon her by Time magazine in 1997 \u2013 for her beloved roles in films like Party Girl, The House of Yes, The Doom Generation and Christopher Guest\u2019s mockumentary-style film Waiting For Guffman. <\/p>\n

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