Connie Britton is ready to pack her bags for The White Lotus, as long as the destination isn’t halfway across the world.
The Emmy-nominated actress, best known to fans of the HBO hit as type-A tech executive Nicole Mossbacher, says she’s totally down for a return… on one very specific condition: it has to be filmed in Aspen.
In a new interview with Us Weekly, Britton revealed that she’s been in ongoing conversations with series creator Mike White about reprising her Season 1 role. But life looks a little different now. The 58-year-old actress is a full-time mom to her 14-year-old son, Eyob, and globe-trotting for months on end just isn’t on the table.
“I keep telling them, ‘Listen, when you’re ready to do White Lotus: Aspen, let’s do it,’” she said, half-joking, half-serious. “I can pull that off.”
Britton’s hesitation has nothing to do with a lack of love for the show. In fact, she called the original experience a dream. “We shot that [first season] during COVID. So my son was able to go with me when we shot it. He would do COVID Zoom school starting at 5:00 a.m. from Hawaii.”
But now? New season, new location, new complications. White’s third season is being filmed in Thailand, a far cry from a Colorado mountain town. And spending six months abroad just doesn’t fit into Britton’s parenting equation right now.
“As much as I would love to do it,” she admitted, “It’s a whole thing.”
Britton has long been vocal about the challenges of balancing career and motherhood. She adopted Eyob as a single parent while starring on Nashville, and she didn’t sugarcoat what that time was like. “It was kind of traumatising,” she confessed. “I had no support system in Nashville, and I was working, you know, sometimes 15, 16, 17 hours a day, and it was a lot of work.”
What she hadn’t accounted for was just how dramatically her priorities would shift. “When you first become a parent, the learning curve of, ‘Oh, I need to think about things differently now and I need to make choices differently now because now I am thinking for a whole other person who can’t think for themselves’, that hit me hard.”
So while Connie Britton’s return to The White Lotus isn’t completely off the table, it’s all down to geography. Aspen or bust, basically.
And knowing Mike White’s taste for satire, snow, and jaw-dropping locations, maybe “White Lotus: Aspen” isn’t such a stretch after all.
