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White Lotus Season 4 Cast Steps Away From Set for a Disneyland Paris Outing

Putri ArdhanaPublished 4d ago3 min readBased on 4 sources
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White Lotus Season 4 Cast Steps Away From Set for a Disneyland Paris Outing
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Laura Dern, AJ Michalka and Marissa Long — three cast members of The White Lotus Season 4 — were spotted at Disneyland Paris on a Sunday, taking photos with a Minnie Mouse mascot by Sleeping Beauty castle. The outing, first reported by Variety, offered a rare off-set glimpse of a production that has been largely closed to the public eye since filming began.

Not every member of the Season 4 ensemble made the trip to the park. Ben Kingsley, Max Greenfield and Vincent Cassel, all confirmed cast members, did not appear to have joined the Disneyland Paris group, according to Variety's report. The wider Season 4 cast also includes Alexander Ludwig, Chris Messina and Marissa Long, as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter in May and earlier reported by ABC News in April.

Production on the new season has been under way in Paris since the start of summer. Interiors have been shot at the Hôtel Lutetia, a storied Left Bank hotel, and at the Bry-sur-Marne studios on the city's eastern edge. The shoot is set to return to the French Riviera for final scenes at the Martinez hotel in Cannes, as well as in Monaco, per Variety.

Laura Dern's involvement carries its own backstory. She took over the role originally meant for Helena Bonham Carter at the start of production, stepping into the ensemble before cameras rolled. Her casting was confirmed in April by ABC News and later expanded on by The Hollywood Reporter in its May cast breakdown.

The Disneyland Paris sighting is not the first time the Season 4 cast has been photographed off-set during filming. Dern, Michalka and castmate Nadia Treszkiewicz were photographed together at the French Open in June, as documented by TV Insider.

Season 4 is set in Cannes and follows two rival filmmaking teams competing for the festival's top prize, a shift that moves Mike White's anthology series from its resort-hotel formula into the world of cinema. The show's earlier seasons were set in Hawaii, Sicily and Thailand.

For fans, the Disneyland photos are a small but welcome sign that production is humming along — and that at least some of the cast are finding time between takes to enjoy a theme park.