A lioness is carried to a transport cage at the animal refuge Ostok Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Culiacan, Mexico, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
“That’s what people wanted at a time when the world was at a standstill,” she says. “It gave people a chance to sort of imagine and dream and watch the world of high-class vacationing and seeing the underbelly of it.”Not all the of cast found seven months away from home easy. Wood, who previously starred in
says that living and working on location got “very claustrophobic.”“Usually you wrap and you go home. But it was like, wrap ... and then I would walk five steps to my little room. And then I’d be having breakfast in the morning and be like, ‘Hi,’ to all the crew that walking past,” she explains. Looking back on it now, she treasures the experience before she finally went home to “remember” who she was. “It’s like ‘The Truman Show,’” she joked.Rothwell’s struggles were less existential, centering instead on the reptilian extras. Her character is half-guest and half-staff, in Thailand on a work trip to learn new rejuvenation techniques to take back to Hawaii.
“I’m very delicate when it comes to green, slimy things. So I had to tap into Belinda’s approach to peace and calm and meditation when I would see those little guys,” says Rothwell, who created and starred in “How to Die Alone.”Each season, the cast ventures to a new White Lotus resort in vacation hot spots. This time, along with the scene-stealing monkeys (and reptiles),
gets more of a storyline than Hawaii or Sicily did in the first two seasons.
Monaghan says that the characters (and therefore the cast) got to explore on a sightseeing tour: “They really leave the actual White Lotus resort. We see them discovering local joints and they really take in everything that Thailand has to offer. And I think that’s a real departure from what we’ve seen before. And I think it makes the scope of the show feel a lot bigger.”— Does your teen sleep until lunchtime on weekends? “Most likely they are not getting enough sleep during the week,” says Fong-Isariyawongse. It’s fine to sleep in a bit, but try to limit it to a couple hours. Otherwise, it throws off the body clock and makes it harder to wake up when the new school week begins.
Explain to your teens why sleep matters, and that it’s not just nagging parents who say so. The data on mental health and sleep is vast.— Many studies show that
go up as sleep goes down.— Beyond mood, sleep deprivation affects physical and athletic ability. That’s why several NFL and NBA teams have hired sleep coaches. Teens who are sleep-deprived