Mike White with Alec Merlino insetted. Shutterstock; Courtesy of Alec Merlino/Instagram
Warning: This story incorporates spoilers from the Sunday, August 15, episode of The White Lotus.
Made you look! Followers can’t cease speaking about HBO’s White Lotus, particularly after studying one actor competed on Survivor.
Some diehard viewers of the truth sequence could know that White Lotus creator, Mike White, appeared on Survivor: David and Goliath in 2018. The 51-year-old actor got here in second place throughout season 37.
Eagle-eyed followers then observed that Alec Merlino, who performs the resort bartender on the HBO drama, additionally regarded acquainted. Merlino, 27, isn’t a veteran TV star like a lot of his fellow costars — however he does have TV expertise after competing alongside White on Survivor: David and Goliath.
The California native was voted out on day 28 of the season after turning into buddies with the College of Rock author when he was initially assigned to staff Goliath on day one. Merlino’s position as Hutch is his first appearing credit score.
Followers have been launched to Merlino’s Hutch in addition to resort goers Armond (Murray Bartlett), Nicole Mossbacher (Connie Britton), Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn), Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge), Rachel Patton (Alexandra Daddario) and extra, on the present’s season premiere final month.
All through the drama’s six episodes, the query of who died whereas on trip turned onerous to crack. The sufferer was finally revealed as Armond throughout the Sunday, August 15, finale. Whereas some followers had blended emotions about him perishing and why Shane (Jake Lacy) killed him, White is content material with the way it all performed out.
“I knew I wished Armond to die. It got here to me in a flash that his ultimate act of retribution, of the put-upon existence he has serving these privileged individuals, was to take a crap of their bag, and that may be his final act, an operatic finish for him,” the Enlightened producer advised Vulture forward of the White Lotus finale. “I’ve by no means seen that earlier than, and it felt like that may be humorous and have a surreal however impactful finish.”
Merlino, for his half, thanked everybody who watch the hit present by way of Instagram and teased the second season.
“Cheers to an epic keep on the @thewhitelotus,” he wrote on Monday, August 16. “To everybody I met that made the expertise unforgettable, mahalo. Now, as any nice lodge worker would say … ‘I hope you loved your keep and we’ll be proper again with season 2.’”
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