Oscar-nominee Helena Bonham Carter has joined Steve Coogan for the fourth season of HBO’s comedy drama The White Lotus.
Bonham Carter is one of three new cast members officially announced today alongside Chris Messina and Marissa Long. Messina is known for roles in Sharp Objects, The Mindy Project and Julie & Julia, while Long is a model with only a short film to her name as an actor.
They all join previously announced actors Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Alexander Ludwig, and AJ Michalka.
Details on characters remain under wraps.
The fourth season of The White Lotus will take place in France with locations set to include Paris, the Cannes film festival and a luxury hotel called the Château de La Messardière 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.
Bonham Carter was most recently seen in Netflix’s Agatha Christie miniseries The Seven Dials and will next be seen in mystery adventure Enola Holmes 3.
The third of season of White’s hit show reached new viewership highs and scored 23 Emmy nominations.
While it’s not yet been revealed which actor will return for the fourth season as connecting characters tend to appear each season, acclaimed composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer has already stated he won’t be coming back after a feud with White.
“We already had our last fight for ever, I think,” he said to the New York Times last year. “He was just saying no to anything.”
White called into question a feud, calling his decision to speak about him to the Times “a bitch move” in an interview with Howard Stern.
“We never really even fought,” White said. “He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him – except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me.”
