Since her breakout position in Season 3 of HBO’s hit dramedy White Lotus, appearing affords have been pouring in for Charlotte Le Bon.
However for now, the Montreal native is simply not .
“Making movies is my foremost focus greater than appearing, to be sincere,” Le Bon mentioned throughout a sit-down interview in Toronto Thursday.
Le Bon not too long ago returned from the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place she held conferences searching for a financing associate 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 feel the objective 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 concerning 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 dwelling in Thailand together with her a lot older boyfriend, and the collection’ foremost 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, with a view to inherit her wealth.
Le Bon says she was able to take a hiatus from appearing when she was provided the White Lotus position. 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 digital camera. Her 2023 horror-romance Falcon Lake, which she directed and co-wrote, premiered at Cannes to sturdy essential acclaim.
“I used to be excited about 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 typically performed characters that had been not likely inspiring for me for some motive,” she says.
“After which White Lotus arrived and I used to be like, ‘There’s no method I cannot 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 airplane flying to Thailand, there have been most likely like 10 days.”
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Le Bon says the expertise of being a part of such a pop-culture juggernaut was arduous to wrap her head round.
“It’s form of overwhelming once you’re participating in such an essential factor in tradition. Even when it began to return 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 could be all the way down to return for Season 4 — and has some concepts about the way it might play out.
“If their relationship relies on real love, which I feel it’s, then possibly she’ll come again with Greg, as a result of Greg has to return again, for certain,” she says.
Le Bon muses that Chloe could possibly be Greg’s confederate and even the one who serves him his inevitable comeuppance.
“She might both turn out to be Greg’s ally and they are often like a duo of villains, or she will be able to possibly be the one who will create the karma for Greg. Possibly 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 feel what she likes on this relationship is she thinks she’s discovered a approach to be free… simply by spending some huge cash and partying and having intercourse with whoever she desires,” Le Bon says.
“I feel they discover an settlement by the top 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 nicely.”
If that setup sounds peculiar, Le Bon says that’s simply the form of factor that pursuits her.
“There must be a singular facet 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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