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Haley Lu Richardson may have parted ways with the endless stream of Aperol Spritz, but she hasn’t given up la dolce vita quite yet.
The White Lotus star filmed in Sicily for five months, each day filled with heavy pours of wine, plump plates of pasta, and rich people bickering over inane nonsense. While Richardson didn’t partake in most of those arguments—she plays Portia, the assistant of Jennifer Coolidge’s returning character Tanya—she did enjoy the wine, pasta, and Italian lifestyle.
In fact, Richardson fully immersed herself in Sicilian society, shacking up at her own place instead of a hotel with the rest of The White Lotus cast. She wanted some space from the job, especially since her cat Darbin made the trek to Sicily with her. “They call all apartments there villas,” she says, quickly correcting me after I refer to where she stayed as her “apartment.”