The White Lotus has cast a 1990s icon who starred in the blockbuster comedy The Hangover after she posed in bikinis for months on social media.
Heather Graham, 56, is the lucky lady who has been asked to join the fourth season of the hit series.
The White Lotus often features its cast in swimwear as the locations are resorts in warm-weather areas. So Graham posting bathing suit photos with regularity appears to have been a savvy move.
Aimee Lou Wood, Leslie Bibb and Patrick Schwarzenegger have all been seen in swimsuits on previous seasons of the show.
Graham will have a recurring role on the new season though it is not yet known who she will play.
Also added to the cast are Rosie Perez, Ben Schnetzer, Tobias Santelmann, Frida Gustavsson and Laura Smet.
Stars that have already been cast in the Mike White show are Sandra Bernhard, Helena Bonham Carter, Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Max Greenfield, AJ Michalka and Kumail Nanjiani, among others.
The series will start production in April in the south of France near where the Cannes Film Festival takes place, Deadline reported.
This year’s festival will run from May 12 to May 23.
The White Lotus is an anthology series featuring a new, high-stakes ensemble cast each season at a new Four Seasons location.
Season one was set in Hawaii and focused on wealth disparity. Season two was set in Italy and explored sexual politics. Season three took place in Thailand and centered on death and Eastern spirituality.
This comes after Graham talked her beauty tricks with UsWeekly.
The Hangover star said she is careful with her diet as the sugar addict does not keep any sweets in the house, though she will munch on a red velvet cookie now and then.
And the blonde exercises daily with yoga as she adds meditation for clarity while going on power walks to get her steps in.
She also refuses to go under the knife because she feels it is ‘better to look older’ than to have a weird face from plastic surgery, though she has tried Botox and relies on laser therapy.
Also in the wide-ranging interview Graham – who is starring in the new movie They Will Kill You – also talked about why she never got married and had children while touching on her late boyfriend Heath Ledger and her new love, an Italian director.
At the start of her career in her twenties she made some bad diet decisions.
‘I had unhealthy eating habits. In my early 20s, I was obsessed with sugar. I’d be like, “I don’t want to have dinner, so I’m going to eat eight candy bars or a pint of ice cream,”‘ she admitted.
‘Then I’d be like, “That was bad, so now I’m not going to eat any regular food.” There was a period where I was eating frozen yogurt for dinner and lunch. When I started meditating, I got into eating healthier food.’
Now she has her sweets only once in a while.
‘I recently had a birthday, and [was sent] Beverly Hills Cookies,’ she said of the new fancy cookie shop that sells red velvet cookies and Reese’s peanut butter cookies.
‘I can have two cookies. But I can’t keep it in my house because I don’t have any control.’
She added, ‘[It’s like] that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda couldn’t stop eating brownies, so she threw them in the trash, then she took them out and ate them, and then had to pour soap on them.’
And she works out daily. ‘If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. It’s wild to see all these amazing, beautiful performers [who are] sick or dying. I’m lucky to be alive and healthy. That’s No. 1, over my career and over everything else,’ she noted.
As far as Ozempic, she is not on it. ‘I can totally see the appeal. Some people say it’s amazing, but I’m fearful people haven’t been taking it long enough to know if there are bad side effects.
‘I’m just going more for working out and dieting.’
