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Permit the Dern-assaince keep.

This calendar week lone, Oscar winner Laura Dern played Taylor Swift'southward evil stepmother in the Cinderella-inspired music video "Bejeweled" and lent her voice to the first episode of "The White Lotus" Flavor ii as the aroused, estranged wife of Michael Imperioli.

Dern was the voice telling Imperioli's character Dominic Di Grasso to "fuck off" in the October 30 episode. Later Dominic arrives at the White Lotus Sicily hotel with his father Bert (F. Murray Abraham) and son Albie (Adam DiMarco), he makes a brief call to his estranged married woman Abby, voiced by Dern. Abby was supposed to be on the trip with the three generations of Di Grasso men, but after their marriage striking the rocks, Abby stayed stateside. Will Abby (Dern) appear in the series down the road? Only add it to 1 of the many mysteries itinerant in the latest season.

Imperioli applauded Dern's "genius" presence in the season and teased that there is more to come up in an Instagram post.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 19: Actors Diane Ladd and Laura Dern attend the after party for the premiere of Fox Searchlight's "Wild" at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 19, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

F. Murray Abraham at the 75th Annual Writers Guild Awards. Abraham is now accused of sexual misconduct on "Mythic Quest."

"The absolutely magnificent Laura Dern plays my married woman in the new season of 'The White Lotus.' Although (so far) she has merely been heard on the phone and not seen, her performance is a standout among many great ones in the 'White Lotus' troupe," the "Sopranos" alum penned. "LaDern can do more with voice alone than most tin can practice with everything else. She's genius."

Dern re-teamed with "Enlightened" showrunner Mike White, creator of the Emmy-winning "The White Lotus." The fellow HBO series ran for 2 seasons before beingness canceled in 2013, but it remains a cult favorite amongst Dern fans.

Co-creator White previously teased that a third season of "Aware" could exist in the works, only remains hesitant. "There was a lot of pain with the catastrophe," he admitted. "It's like going into an old relationship where y'all're like…let'southward do something new."

Dern added in 2021 that she has "talked about information technology" with White, saying via TV Insider, "Mike and I's fantasy was always three seasons and we but did ii then there was a real mapped-out tertiary place to go."

Meanwhile, "The White Lotus" Season 2 centers on sexual politics and gender roles, something that Dern'southward Abby could hands get caught upward in if she travels to join her husband and son in Italy.

IndieWire'south Ben Travers wrote in his review that Flavour 2 "examines the culturally ascendant machismo that drives (cisgender, heterosexual) men to exercise, well, everything." James' and Sharpe'due south respective characters embody the competitive streak of male blowing following career successes that threaten to "destroy their emotional states."

"Allure may atomic number 82 them to the woman of their dreams, merely it tin also tempt them to cheat," Travers wrote. "White's deft scripts don't then much cast arraign as they spread it — over time, across families, and through generations. Rather than treat the patriarchy's problems as a series of revelations, it probes the various elements within sexual politics that work to prop men up — and it does then through spicy, smart conflicts."

For all the details on "The White Lotus" Season 2, click here.

Source: https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-white-lotus-season-2-laura-dern-cameo-1234777842/