We certainly wouldn’t turn this down.
Murray Bartlett may be earning critical acclaim for his recent appearance on The Last of Us, but the actor still isn’t quite ready to move on from The White Lotus. In fact, despite his character Armond meeting his end in the pineapple suite during season one, Bartlett is ready to check back in. And he knows just the way to do it.
“When we were shooting White Lotus, the night before we started shooting, we had this big dinner,” the Looking actor explained on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Jan. 30, “and Mike White, the creator, writer, director, extraordinaire of White Lotus, made a speech and said, sort of jokingly, that whoever was the nicest person and the best actor gets a spinoff series.”
Bartlett continued, “He said—and I’m not going to hold him to this—but he said, ‘We could always go back in time.’ So, I think maybe like an Armond origin story? I’m just throwing that out there.”
The 51-year-old won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his work on the first season of the hit show. Meanwhile, his co-star and fellow winner Jennifer Coolidge did end up reprising her role of Tanya in the second season.