The fourth season of The White Lotus will unfold in the South of France, Variety has confirmed.
Mike White's award-winning HBO anthology series about horrible rich people encountering murder, hanky-panky, and pervasive anxiety while on vacation at luxury resorts will primarily film scenes at a 19th-century castle-turned-hotel called the Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera.
The on-location shoot will begin in April and last through October, according to Variety. Casting is still underway.
Previous seasons of the show were made at Four Seasons properties in Hawaii, Sicily, and Thailand. But the production is going with another brand of fancy-pants hotels—the Airelles Collection—for this go-round.
Rest assured, the extravagance of the property will carry over.
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Set on 32 seaside acres filled with "parasol pines, cypress trees, and jasmine," per the hotel's website, the luxe Château de la Messardière has 86 rooms and suites that go for a whopping $3,000 to $8,000 per night.
For guests who feel they're not "meant to live an uncomfortable life," as Parker Posey's Victoria put it in Season 3, hotel amenities include a private beach, a spa, five swimming pools, and—a White Lotus staple—plenty of onsite dining to get a wide variety of guests conveniently in the same general area at the same time.
A history of the estate provided by Airelles explains that the chateau was built in the 19th century and given by a "wealthy cognac merchant" to his daughter as a wedding gift. Later turned into a hotel, the place briefly became a Roaring Twenties hot spot before falling into disrepair.
A restoration in the 1980s and '90s presaged a revival. Airelles took over in 2019, made further renovations, and reopened the chateau in its current guise in 2021.
Judging from the so-called "White Lotus effect" that has resulted in a surge of interest in hotels and destinations featured in earlier seasons of the show, the Saint-Tropez chateau can expect brisk business ahead.
As in the second and third seasons, the production will not film entirely at the hotel for Season 4.
Variety reports that other spots along the French Riviera and scenes at an unnamed Paris hotel will appear onscreen as well.
Plot details are hush-hush, but the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled this year for May 12–23, is rumored to play a part in the story somehow.
Stay tuned.
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