{"id":140262,"date":"2025-04-04T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=140262"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:25:27","slug":"mike-white-didnt-want-to-cast-blackpinks-lisa-for-the-white-lotus-season-3-heres-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/mike-white-didnt-want-to-cast-blackpinks-lisa-for-the-white-lotus-season-3-heres-what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike White didn\u2019t want to cast BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa for The White Lotus Season 3? Here&#8217;s what he said!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans have been loving <strong>BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa<\/strong> in <strong>The White Lotus Season 3<\/strong>, all thanks to her role as <strong>Mook<\/strong> in the series. But guess what? Director<strong> Mike White<\/strong> originally didn&#8217;t want her on the show. Even after her impressive audition, he wasn\u2019t sold on the BLACKPINK rapper for the role.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1907500475773268265\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike White on casting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lisa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Lisa<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheWhiteLotus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TheWhiteLotus<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I did not know who Lisa or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackpink?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Blackpink<\/a> was. All I knew was that there was a Blackpink girl in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheIdol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TheIdol<\/a> and I was like, \u2018We\u2019re not doing that.\u2019 Then I found out that there might be security issues and I was just like, \u201cNo.\u201d [But]\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UdnlHWOPvK\">pic.twitter.com\/UdnlHWOPvK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1907500475773268265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During a chat with <strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong>, Mike confessed he initially thought, \u201cWe\u2019re not doing that,\u201d after learning BLACKPINK\u2019s Jennie had appeared in The Idol. Then, producer <strong>David Bernad<\/strong> recalled inviting Lisa to Phuket for auditions, where she impressed everyone with her humility and passion. In the end, her dedication was impossible to ignore, sealing the deal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cLisa was so humble, and she\u2019d worked so hard on her performance. This was someone fighting for this part,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LISANATIONS_\/status\/1894074934063747239\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike White, the writer, director and producer of The White Lotus, talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LISA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LISA<\/a>, her casting and willingness to work with her again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know this sounds crazy, but I did not know who Lisa was. [&#8230;] I did not know Blackpink. [&#8230;] But then she came in and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GwFLMDNKbF\">pic.twitter.com\/GwFLMDNKbF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LISANATIONS (@LISANATIONS_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LISANATIONS_\/status\/1894074934063747239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For her part, Lisa went all in: she took acting lessons, rehearsed, and even brought her mom for moral support. Mike ultimately cast her to honor Thailand, comparing her national treasure status to a combination of a Thai version of <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> and <strong>Princess Diana<\/strong>. Lisa didn\u2019t just land a role\u2014she proved that her star power shines far beyond the music stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans have been loving BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa in The White Lotus Season 3, all thanks to her role as Mook in the series. But guess what? Director Mike White originally didn&#8217;t want her on the show. Even after her impressive audition, he wasn\u2019t sold on the BLACKPINK rapper for the role. During a chat with The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":140263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1441],"tags":[17,954],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-series","9":"tag-blackpink","10":"tag-lisa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140262"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=140262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}