Alexander Ludwig talks White Lotus in France, Unabomber and Hunger Games past
Alexander Ludwig spoke to Variety from France, where he was filming Season 4 of HBO's The White Lotus.
The interview, published 25 September 2026, ranged across his new Netflix film, his early blockbuster role and his current television job. Three chapters of one acting career sat side by side.
In Unabomber, a Netflix biopic, meaning a film built around a real person's life, about Ted Kaczynski, Ludwig plays a fellow FBI agent. Shailene Woodley stars as the FBI agent who follows up the tip from Kaczynski's brother. Jacob Tremblay plays the young Kaczynski during his undergraduate years at Harvard, as Ludwig told Variety.
That is three generations of the same story in one cast. Woodley carries the investigation. Ludwig works alongside her. Tremblay fills in the past.
His present-day job is The White Lotus, HBO's rotating ensemble drama about guests and staff at a luxury resort. The fourth season is set in France, as reported by TV Insider. Ludwig and AJ Michalka were the first cast members announced for the new season.
Ludwig was already in France shooting when he spoke to Variety. It is a fast move from casting announcement to production. For viewers, that signals the new season is firmly under way.
The conversation also looked back to The Hunger Games. Ludwig, who grew up in Vancouver, Canada, played Cato in the original 2012 film. Cato dies after being mauled by wolf mutts, the engineered creatures that attack in the arena, before Katniss fatally shoots him with an arrow.
Ludwig revisited that exit with Variety. Fourteen years on, it still follows him into interviews. That is the trade-off of an early franchise role. People remember how you went out.
He also spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about work behind the camera. His directorial debut, meaning his first credit as a director, is titled Billings, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter.
What makes this stand out is the mix. One project revisits American criminal history. One continues a hit series in a new country. One looks back to where a wider audience first realised who he was.
