Lalisa Manobal, alias Lisa of Blackpink, was impatient with a new challenge, and the game seemed to be a next natural step for the interpreter K-Pop. Enter The white lotus, One of his favorite shows, which held auditions in his native Thailand. She threw herself on a band and sent her, which led to a more formal hearing at Phuket before White and Bernad. Manobal, of course, was nervous. White, of course, was skeptical.
“I didn’t know who Lisa or Blackpink was. All I knew was that there was a Blackpink daughter (her comrade The idol And I said to myself: “We don’t do that”. Then, I discovered that there could be security problems and that I said to myself: “no”, says White, who finally reconsidered after seeing his second hearing and his local impact. Now, says Manobal, she would like to do more: “If I have a chance to do more action, I would like to do it. There is nothing to come, but I am open! “”
As for Thapthimthong, he did not know the HBO drama when the local casting director stretched out. “I usually look at spying thrillers and action movies, nothing where you have to sit down and really listen,” he said, laughing. “So, I watched the first season to prepare myself, and I didn’t really understand it. Where is you okay? Is there a villain? But three or four episodes, I realized that it is a question of tension.”
He had worked with the casting director for about a decade (earlier (earlier (Mechanics 2), but he had since left industry in favor of an army stay and some time in private security. In fact, he was still doing security work when the casting director contacted the role of Gaitok, who, in the words of Thapthimthong, “the most useless” of the security guards. “She said,” I heard you are out of the army, would you like to put yourself in stage? “”, He recalls. “And it was a perfect timing because I really wanted.”
