The White Lotus‘ season four cast has been confirmed, with Helena Bonham Carter, Chris Messina and Marissa Long set to join the likes of Steve Coogan and AJ Michalka in the HBO show.
Oscar-nominee Bonham Carter leads the latest announcement, with The Mindy Project actor Messina and Long, a model who has only appeared in a short film so far in her acting career, joining her in the cast.
Coogan, Michalka, Caleb Jonte Edwards and Alexander Ludwig were all previously announced to be joining the series.
Character details remain under wraps, but it was reported earlier this month that the black comedy-drama will head to France for season four, with locations including Paris, the Cannes film festival, and the luxury Château de La Messardière hotel in Saint-Tropez on the Côte d’Azur.
“For the fourth season, I want to get a little bit out of the ‘crashing waves against rocks’ vernacular,” creator Mike White said last year (via Deadline). An anthology series, each season of The White Lotus takes place somewhere new – the first season took place in Hawaii, with the second in Italy and the third in Thailand, at different hotels owned by The White Lotus chain.
The show has been a critical and commercial success throughout its run, the third season receiving 23 Emmy nominations and the final episode drawing in 6.2million viewers across HBO and streaming platform Max.
It’s unknown whether any existing characters will be coming back for the fourth season, however. Each season, two characters have returned from the previous instalment. For season two, Jennifer Coolidge and Jon Gries reprised their season one roles, playing Tanya McQuoid and her husband Greg Hunt, later known as Gary, respectively. In the third season, Gries returned again, as did season one’s Natasha Rothwell, reprising the role of Belinda Lindsey.
Someone who’s already said they won’t be returning, however, is composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, who told the New York Times last year about his relationship with White, “We already had our last fight for ever, I think. He was just saying no to anything.”
White, for his part, called Tapia de Veer’s decision to speak to the newspaper a “bitch move” in an interview with Howard Stern. “We never really even fought,” he claimed. “He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him – except for maybe some emails.”
NME named The White Lotus one of the best TV shows of 2025, and gave it a four-star review at the time of release, writing: “A little sweetness definitely helps to balance out the prevailing saltiness. As the season progresses, the sneaky intricacy of White’s plotting begins to yield surreal, shocking and genuinely hilarious moments. No one can write a scene where one character pretends not to remember another quite as exquisitely as White. Tanya may be gone, but this transgressive soap opera remains unique and completely jaw-dropping.”
As for Bonham Carter, first rumoured to be involved in The White Lotus back in December, she’s set to appear in Enola Holmes 3 later this year, reprising her role as Eudoria, Enola and Sherlock’s mother.
Her latest project, the miniseries Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, arrived on Netflix earlier this month. The former Harry Potter star plays Lady Caterham alongside the likes of Martin Freeman and Mia McKenna-Bruce.
Another series, the BBC drama California Avenue, was filmed last year, but no release date has been given yet.