The White Lotus Saint Tropez Names Its First 7 Guests

Mike White’s landmark HBO dramedy has fans across the globe and, it seems, across each section of society. As season 3‘s spirituality-focussed drama drew to a close, we said a reluctant goodbye to another higgledy-piggledy batch of moneyed guests, including Jason Isaacs as the tortured Timothy Ratliff, Parker Posey as his Southern belle wife Victoria, Walton Goggins as haunted Rick Hatchett and plenty more. And though the series sadly missed out on all 10 of its Emmy nominations, season 4 was always on the cards.

The hit series has taken us from Hawaii to Sicily to Thailand as we hop between the titular luxury hotel chain’s glamorous resorts, watching as a new batch of moneyed guests get muddled up in murder. But where to next? In September 2025, the team behind The White Lotus revealed it had settled on France for its fourth season, with HBO exec Casey Bloys confirming the news on the Emmys red carpet and creator Mike White reportedly all set up in the land of cheese and wine, writing away. And now, we’ve got word on the exact hotel where the season 4 drama will play out, with the show moving away from the Four Seasons group for the first time. Meanwhile, there are plenty of rumours on stars, including an another British Harry Potter alum…

Here’s everything we know so far about The White Lotus season 4.

Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon & Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff in The White Lotus season 3. (HBO)

The White Lotus Season 4: Plot, Cast, Release Date & More

The White Lotus was renewed for season 4 ahead of the season 3 premiere in February 2025 (with Variety revealing the season 4 renewal on 22 January 2025), meaning a whole new ensemble of troubled yet exuberantly wealthy tourists will land in a glitzy destination sometime in the future.

And, come summer, there’s no where glitzier than the south of France, home to Cannes Film Festival, abundant lavender fields and vineyards and UHNWIs spilling out of Monaco. This is where The White Lotus season 4 will be set – specifically affluent Saint-Tropez.

The White Lotus season 2 was filmed at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Resort.

Where Will The White Lotus Season 4 Be Set?

It’s official: we will soon be checking into Le Lotus Blanc. That is to say The White Lotus season 4 will be set in Saint-Tropez, France. Like previous seasons, one hotel will serve as the main setting, and we now know which one has the pleasure: the 19th century hotel Château de la Messardière – not, as many fans suspected, the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, a Four Seasons hotel further up the coast between Nice and Monaco.

Season 1 was filmed at Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Hawaii, season 2 at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel, Sicily, and season 3 at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, Thailand – so The White Lotus season 4 marks the very first time Mike White has strayed from the trusted American brand. Instead Château de la Messardière is operated by French hospitality brand Airelles, and since opening in 2019 has established itself as one of the most luxurious abodes on the French Riviera.

Saint Tropez, France, Unsplash

With its dramatic hilltop setting, fairytale pastel pink facade and Rolls-Royce chauffeur service, this Château feels like the perfect setting for The White Lotus and its characteristically glamorous guests. Originally built by 19th century cognac merchant Gabriel Dupuy d’Angeac as a wedding gift for his daughter, the Château now boasts five restaurants and a jaw-dropping spa.

Despite being predominantly set in Koh Samui, in The White Lotus season 3, Rick (Goggins) embarked on a side quest in Bangkok, and additional filming took place in Phuket – Thailand’s home of Muay Thai. And it seems The White Lotus season 4 will also have a sub-plot, this time in Paris, with the team reportedly scouting suitably swanky properties in the French capital, too. This includes Le Lutetia (a Mandarin Oriental hotel) and The Ritz, both preceded by their luxurious reputations.

(L-R) Aubrey Plaza, Will Sharpe, Theo James and Meghann Fahey in The White Lotus season 2, courtesy of Warner Media.

The Cast

Mike White has cast his first seven stars in The White Lotus season 4. Drumroll, please… They are:

• Helena Bonham Carter
• Steve Coogan
• AJ Michalka
• Caleb Jonte Edwards
• Chris Messina
• Marissa Long
• Alexander Ludwig

British star Helena Bonham Carter was the first name in the rumour mill to star in The White Lotus season 4, with insiders teasing conversations between both parties at the end of 2025. The news follows fellow Harry Potter star Jason Isaac’s Emmy-nominated performance in season 3, a business/family-man who finds out shortly after arriving at the tech-free resort that he is under investigation by the FBI for financial wrongdoing.

Bonham Carter is best known for starring in flicks like Fight Club (1999) and Sweeney Todd (2007) as well as the Harry Potter franchise as Bellatrix Lestrange, but her television roles to date have been more limited. Recently she starred as Princess Margaret in The Crown and Nolly Gordon in Nolly, and Netflix’s The Seven Dials Mystery.

Helena Bonham-Carter & Mia McKenna Bruce in Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials. (© Netflix)

She is joined by fellow Brit Steve Coogan – the comic actor best known for his character Alan Partridge. But Coogan can do serious, too; we’re expecting some dry wit from the British duo.

American star AJ Michalka is also on the call sheet, the actor-singer who rose to fame as one half of pop rock duo Aly & AJ with her sister. She is joined by American model Marissa Long who follows in season 3 star Lalisa Manobal’s footsteps, making her acting debut in The White Lotus. They are joined by fellow American Chris Messina (another comic actor familiar from the telly), Aussie newcomer Caleb Jonte Edwards, and Canadian actor Alexander Ludwig who rose to fame as Cato in The Hunger Games (2012).

The White Lotus has a reputation for attracting established stars (think Jennifer Coolidge, Tom Hollander, Connie Britton, Walton Goggins, Aubrey Plaza, F.Murray Abraham, Parker Posey and Michael Imperioli) and stellar newcomers alike. Everyone from Sydney Sweeney and Leo Woodall, Aimee Lou Wood, Sam Nivola and Patrick Schwarzenegger found increased international attention here, while stars like Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Meghann Fahy, Theo James, Will Sharpe and Michelle Monaghan have had a little career boost.

The casting process relies on this reputation, and the prestige of the show in general: all main stars are offered an equal flat fee, usually around $40,000 per episode.

Meghann Fahy and Aubrey Plaza in The White Lotus season 2.

The White Lotus Season 4 Release Date

No official news just yet, but filming for The White Lotus season 4 is scheduled to get underway in 2026, meaning we should get to tune in sometime in 2027.

Between the first two seasons of The White Lotus, there was a gap of about a year and a half – and between the second and the third, a gap of almost two years and a half, though this was disrupted by strikes.

HBO’s UK arm is set to launch in 2026, meaning The White Lotus season 4 probably won’t air on Sky as with previous seasons. Stay tuned for more.

All three seasons of The White Lotus are streaming now on nowtv.com