Mike White’s sun-soaked satire The White Lotus is gearing up for its return—in a new location, at a new hotel and with a fresh cast, of course. Here’s absolutely everything we know so far about The White Lotus’s upcoming fourth season.
Where will The White Lotus Season 4 be set?
This, perhaps more than anything else, was the biggest question. After Maui, Sicily, and Koh Samui, would the fourth season take us to yet another ridiculously luxurious Four Seasons resort? And would we be transported to a new continent once again?
On September 4, 2025, Deadline reported that the production had settled on France as next season’s location, which has three lavish Four Seasons properties: the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera; the gilded, Eiffel Tower-overlooking Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris; and the cozy, snow-covered Four Seasons Hotel Megève.
However, the first property to be confirmed as a location, via Variety, is a different hotel entirely: the Château de La Messardière in Saint-Tropez, a 19th-century palace-turned-luxury hotel set within 32 acres of parasol pines, cypress trees, and jasmine, and offering five restaurants, a spa, and beach access by Rolls-Royce transfer.
As in previous seasons, other locations and properties will be featured, too, with some scenes set to be filmed at a Paris hotel—though the new instalment will mainly unfold along the French Riviera.
Who will be in the cast of The White Lotus Season 4?
On December 12, 2025, Deadline reported that none other than Helena Bonham Carter was in early talks for a starring role. (HBO had no comment.) She could certainly fill the Jennifer Coolidge-slash-Parker Posey-shaped hole in our hearts. Then, on December 19 came the news of the first two confirmed cast members: Vikings’s Alexander Ludwig and The Goldbergs’s AJ Michalka.
After that, on January 15, it emerged that Chris Messina—rom-com stalwart of The Mindy Project and Julie & Julia fame—is circling a major part, too, opposite Carter. Announcements continue to come thicker and faster, as the following day, it was reported that Steve Coogan and Caleb Jonte Edwards will also be checking in. This is Edwards’s most major acting credit yet, having just appeared in a singular episode of the Australian crime drama Black Snow. Coogan, of course, is a celebrated British actor and comedian known best as the character of Alan Partridge.
Aside from them, it seems a safe bet that White will draw in a starry, largely new ensemble, as he has done every other time (a large number of French actors have reportedly auditioned)—but there are also a few major players who could return. These include two key survivors (spoiler alert): Jon Gries’s Greg, who we last saw sipping a drink in his mansion following the bloodshed of the Season 3 finale, and Natasha Rothwell’s newly rich Belinda, who may or may not now be opening her own spa (and her hot son, Zion, as played by Nicholas Duvernay, too). I, for one, would love to see where they wind up.
What will be the plot of The White Lotus Season 4?
As always, the season will follow a group of hotel guests and employees who, over the course of a week, become wrapped up in a mysterious murder—but per Variety, “sources say that the Cannes Film Festival could also be part of the storyline.” Watch this space.
Who will be behind the scenes on The White Lotus Season 4?
White, naturally, but another beloved behind-the-scenes fixture crucially won’t be: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the show’s revered, three-time Emmy-winning composer, who created that iconic “ooh-loo-loo-loo” melody in the opening credits that went onto become a remixed club hit. On April 2, 2025, he told The New York Times that his working relationship with White had been a “struggle” from the very beginning, and that during the making of Season 3 they had their “last fight forever” and decided to part ways.
