Since her breakout function in Season 3 of HBO’s hit dramedy White Lotus, appearing presents have been pouring in for Charlotte Le Bon.
However for now, the Montreal native is simply not .
“Making movies is my most important focus greater than appearing, to be trustworthy,” Le Bon stated throughout a sit-down interview in Toronto Thursday.
Le Bon just lately returned from the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place she held conferences in the hunt for a financing accomplice for her sophomore characteristic — a still-untitled Montreal-shot drama exploring themes of loss.
“It’s autobiographique,” says the bilingual actor, reluctant to disclose an excessive amount of.
“It’s a really, very private film and I believe the aim is to attempt to make a really light-hearted film on grief. It’s a problem, however that’s what I’m aiming for.”
The Montreal-based Le Bon was on the town for Bell Media’s 2025-26 programming showcase, the place Etalk hosts interviewed her throughout a splashy occasion for media consumers in regards to the final season of The White Lotus, which streams on Crave.
In Mike White’s eat-the-rich anthology collection she performs Chloe, a socially savvy French-Canadian expat residing in Thailand along with her a lot older boyfriend, and the collection’ most important antagonist, Greg, who now goes by “Gary.” She’s seemingly unaware of Greg’s historical past: in Season 2, he pulled off a plot to homicide his spouse Tanya, performed by Jennifer Coolidge, to be able to inherit her wealth.
Le Bon says she was able to take a hiatus from appearing when she was supplied the White Lotus function. Although she’d constructed a profitable profession — with roles reverse Joseph Gordon-Levitt within the 2015 biographical drama The Stroll and Christian Bale within the 2016 battle epic The Promise — her ardour had shifted to working behind the digicam. Her 2023 horror-romance Falcon Lake, which she directed and co-wrote, premiered at Cannes to sturdy essential acclaim.
“I used to be fascinated with taking a break from appearing as a result of I used to be like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if I nonetheless prefer it.’ I used to be simply asking myself some questions on it… I generally performed characters that had been probably not inspiring for me for some purpose,” she says.
“After which White Lotus arrived and I used to be like, ‘There’s no approach I can’t do that. It’s simply an incredible alternative’… Between the second the place I despatched the self-tape and the second I used to be within the aircraft flying to Thailand, there have been in all probability like 10 days.”
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Le Bon says the expertise of being a part of such a pop-culture juggernaut was laborious to wrap her head round.
“It’s type of overwhelming once you’re participating in such an vital factor in tradition. Even when it began to come back out, after I began to see memes on it on social media, it was actually thrilling,” she says.
Whereas appearing isn’t her present focus, Le Bon says she can be right down to return for Season 4 — and has some concepts about the way it may play out.
“If their relationship relies on real love, which I believe it’s, then possibly she’ll come again with Greg, as a result of Greg has to come back again, for positive,” she says.
Le Bon muses that Chloe may very well be Greg’s confederate and even the one who serves him his inevitable comeuppance.
“She may both change into Greg’s ally and they are often like a duo of villains, or she will possibly be the one who will create the karma for Greg. Perhaps she’ll give it to him,” she says.
“He has to get it sooner or later, so we’ll see what occurs.”
Whereas Chloe’s relationship with Greg could appear transactional on the floor, Le Bon argues the 2 share a deeper “understanding” of each other.
“I believe what she likes on this relationship is she thinks she’s discovered a method to be free… simply by spending some huge cash and partying and having intercourse with whoever she desires,” Le Bon says.
“I believe they discover an settlement by the tip of the season the place it’s clear that’s her intention and possibly he can participate on this and have enjoyable with it as effectively.”
If that setup sounds peculiar, Le Bon says that’s simply the type of factor that pursuits her.
“There must be a singular side to an element that basically conjures up me to ensure that me to maneuver my butt and be an actress once more,” she says.
“It must be bizarre.”
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