Since her breakout function in Season 3 of HBO’s hit dramedy White Lotus, performing affords have been pouring in for Charlotte Le Bon.
However for now, the Montreal native is simply not .
“Making movies is my essential focus greater than performing, to be sincere,” Le Bon stated throughout a sit-down interview in Toronto Thursday.
Le Bon just lately returned from the Cannes Movie Competition, the place she held conferences in quest of a financing accomplice for her sophomore characteristic — a still-untitled Montreal-shot drama exploring themes of loss.
“It’s autobiographique,” says the bilingual actor, reluctant to disclose an excessive amount of.
“It’s a really, very private film and I believe the objective is to attempt to make a really light-hearted film on grief. It’s a problem, however that’s what I’m aiming for.”
The Montreal-based Le Bon was on the town for Bell Media’s 2025-26 programming showcase, the place Etalk hosts interviewed her throughout a splashy occasion for media consumers in regards to the final season of The White Lotus, which streams on Crave.
In Mike White’s eat-the-rich anthology sequence she performs Chloe, a socially savvy French-Canadian expat dwelling in Thailand together with her a lot older boyfriend, and the sequence’ essential antagonist, Greg, who now goes by “Gary.” She’s seemingly unaware of Greg’s historical past: in Season 2, he pulled off a plot to homicide his spouse Tanya, performed by Jennifer Coolidge, in an effort to inherit her wealth.
Le Bon says she was able to take a hiatus from performing when she was provided the White Lotus function. Although she’d constructed a profitable profession — with roles reverse Joseph Gordon-Levitt within the 2015 biographical drama The Stroll and Christian Bale within the 2016 conflict epic The Promise — her ardour had shifted to working behind the digital camera. Her 2023 horror-romance Falcon Lake, which she directed and co-wrote, premiered at Cannes to robust essential acclaim.
“I used to be fascinated by taking a break from performing as a result of I used to be like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if I nonetheless prefer it.’ I used to be simply asking myself some questions on it… I generally performed characters that have been not likely inspiring for me for some motive,” she says.
“After which White Lotus arrived and I used to be like, ‘There’s no approach I can’t do that. It’s simply a tremendous alternative’… Between the second the place I despatched the self-tape and the second I used to be within the airplane flying to Thailand, there have been in all probability like 10 days.”
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Le Bon says the expertise of being a part of such a pop-culture juggernaut was exhausting to wrap her head round.
“It’s sort of overwhelming if you’re participating in such an essential factor in tradition. Even when it began to come back out, after I began to see memes on it on social media, it was actually thrilling,” she says.
Whereas performing isn’t her present focus, Le Bon says she could be right down to return for Season 4 — and has some concepts about the way it might play out.
“If their relationship relies on real love, which I believe it’s, then perhaps she’ll come again with Greg, as a result of Greg has to come back again, for certain,” she says.
Le Bon muses that Chloe might be Greg’s confederate and even the one who serves him his inevitable comeuppance.
“She might both grow to be Greg’s ally and they are often like a duo of villains, or she will be able to perhaps be the one who will create the karma for Greg. Perhaps she’ll give it to him,” she says.
“He has to get it sooner or later, so we’ll see what occurs.”
Whereas Chloe’s relationship with Greg could seem transactional on the floor, Le Bon argues the 2 share a deeper “understanding” of each other.
“I believe what she likes on this relationship is she thinks she’s discovered a strategy to be free… simply by spending some huge cash and partying and having intercourse with whoever she desires,” Le Bon says.
“I believe they discover an settlement by the tip of the season the place it’s clear that’s her intention and perhaps he can participate on this and have enjoyable with it as properly.”
If that setup sounds peculiar, Le Bon says that’s simply the sort of factor that pursuits her.
“There must be a singular facet to an element that basically conjures up me to ensure that me to maneuver my butt and be an actress once more,” she says.
“It must be bizarre.”
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