‘White Lotus’ Stars Talk Working With BLACKPINK’s LISA on Her Acting Debut: ‘Plain and Simple Natural’

Even stars get starstruck. When Billboard caught up with White Lotus play 3 formed subordinate Tayme Thapthimthong connected the reddish carpet astatine Sunday night’s (Sept. 14) Emmy Awards, the histrion who portrayed soft-spoken information defender Gaitok wasn’t acrophobic to admit that taking connected his astir high-profile relation to day alongside K-pop royalty LISA from BLACKPINK was a spot anxiety-producing.

“Working with LISA was amazing, I was highly star-struck successful the opening erstwhile I met her astatine the formed dinner,” helium said. “She’s truthful nice. Over the 7 months that we filmed unneurotic we conscionable got to go specified bully friends. And it’s ever bully to reunite with her, whether it beryllium successful Thailand oregon here.”

Asked to sanction his favourite LISA songs, Thapthimthong chose the Future collab “Fxck Up the World” and her Tyla team-up, “When I’m With You,” portion explaining that determination was besides plentifulness of euphony connected acceptable during filming. The brace shared a batch of scenes unneurotic successful the show, and helium said LISA often brought her portable talker to the greenish country truthful they could jam retired to their favourite Afrobeats songs, which, of course, included a batch of Tyla, arsenic good arsenic Burna Boy and WizKid.

Another 1 of LISA’s co-stars, Natasha Rothwell, besides chatted up the K-pop superstar’s acting chops astatine the Emmys — where the amusement was nominated for 23 Primetime Emmys, but went location with conscionable 1 win, for archetypal main rubric taxable euphony — where she answered Billboard‘s questions alongside co-star Dom Hetrakul. 

While Rothwell besides called the rapper/singer’s enactment “amazing,” with Hetrakul praising LISA arsenic “very talented,” nodding to the singer’s “years” of grooming successful the K-pop satellite arsenic mentation for the role. “It’s her archetypal debut successful her acting and [she’s just] plain and elemental natural. Just seamless,” helium said.

Watch Billboard‘s chat with Thapthimthong above.