In its two seasons, the anthology collection has starred a rotating stellar solid that features the likes of Jennifer Coolidge, Connie Britton, Sydney Sweeney, Lukas Gage, Aubrey Plaza — and Haley Lu Richardson.
Within the second season, Haley performs a personality named Portia, a privileged Gen Z’er, who initially spends time complaining about her life’s objective whereas on trip in picturesque Italy, working as a private assistant to Jennifer Coolidge’s character, Tanya.
Portia will get sucked right into a sinister and underlying felony world of the wealthy — a world filled with conniving “previous cash” grifters. She is then manipulated, kidnapped, dumped by her love curiosity, and despatched again to the States, after which she stays largely unbothered and unchanged, due to, sure, her privilege.
On Selection’s Only for Selection podcast, Haley spoke up in regards to the “unbearable” character she performed on the present and the way she had been dubbed because the present’s “villain” throughout social media.
“I simply hadn’t been in that state of affairs earlier than, so I did get unhappy,” Haley stated of the expertise engaged on a present as seen as The White Lotus. “There was most likely the primary couple of episodes the place I used to be seeing some issues and reactions to issues with Portia and me that I used to be taking personally or I wasn’t totally certain easy methods to take it or easy methods to course of it.”
“The one factor that I assumed was really form of unfair and warped was the individuals who had been saying that she was terrible or she was the true villain of the season,” shared Haley.
“There’s no method that you could take a look at that younger lady and be like, ‘She is probably the most terrible one on this present.’ Individuals who suppose that ought to go to remedy,” she stated.
“The entire level of the present is to get individuals speaking,” Haley added on Collider’s Girls Evening. “She’s a fictional character, and all these persons are having opinions.” She continued, “However I actually [wished] I had a Twitter so I may very well be part of these conversations. Like, there have been so many Tweets the place I used to be like, ‘Oh my god,’ I simply need to freaking reply!”
I gotta say, there have been method worse villains within the season for Portia to be labeled the principle villain. 🤷♀️
