Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and ‘Industry’ actor Max Minghella are among the final additions to the cast of the fourth season of ‘The White Lotus’. The new season of the Emmy-winning HBO series is set against the backdrop of the Cannes Film Festival. It is currently being filmed across Cannes, St Tropez and Monaco, with additional scenes in Paris.

According to a PTI report, which quoted from Variety, Kingsley and Max Minghella as well as actor Pekka Strang of ‘Tom of Finland’ fame join as recurring characters.

The season’s ensemble cast includes Vincent Cassel, Steve Coogan, Chris Messina, Kumail Nanjiani, Ari Graynor, Alexander Ludwig, AJ Michalka, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Corentin Fila, Dylan Ennis, Caleb Jonte Edwards and Marissa Long.

The guest cast features Chloe Bennet, Sandra Bernhard, Heather Graham, Max Greenfield, Frida Gustavsson, Rosie Perez, Ben Schnetzer, Laura Smet, Charlie Hall and Jarrad Paul.

Recently, Oscar winner Laura Dern, who previously collaborated with creator Mike White on his HBO comedy ‘Enlightened’, boarded the cast after British star Helena Bonham Carter exited her role over creative differences.

Season four of ‘The White Lotus’ will follow the story of a fresh group of White Lotus hotel guests and employees over the span of a week.

According to Variety, this time around, the cast will be split into two rival film teams competing at Cannes, with one group based at a grand h…

For the first time in the show’s history, two ‘White Lotus’ properties will feature in the same season — the Airelles Chateau de la Messardiere, serving as the White Lotus du Cap, and the Hotel Martinez as the White Lotus Cannes.

Created, written and directed by White, the anthology series has previously been set in Hawaii (season one), Sicily (season two), and Thailand (season three), which aired from February to April 2025.

The series streams on JioHotstar in India.