Aimee Lou Wood and Patrick Schwarzenegger hardly knew what they were in for when they moved to Thailand for seven months to film “The White Lotus” Season 3.
Longtime actors who had not yet had their big Hollywood break, they sat for the new season of TheWrap’s Visionaries video series and reflected on their nervous early days on the Mike White-led set and how the entire cast worked and grew together along the way.
Their origins could not be more different. Schwarzenegger grew up on the wealthy west side of Los Angeles, son to the world’s most famous Arnold, while Wood grew up in a village in greater Manchester, England. But the two found a love of performing — and specifically theater — early on, a realization that bonded them in the first days of filming.
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