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Murray Bartlett Wants A White Lotus Origin Story As Bad As We Do
Bring back my gays!
We still haven't recovered from Murray Bartlett's tear-jerking bottle episode of The Last of Us on Sunday but the Emmy Award-winning actor is already looking to the future! Or, er, the past.
Though the out, 51-year-old has been acting for decades, he's just now getting his flowers from the general public (though the gays have been stanning him for years), largely because of Mike White's satirical look at wealth and class on The White Lotus. On Season 1, Bartlett played the chaotic hotel manager Armond and won over the hearts of people all over the world, and snagged an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
But the actor isn't fully ready to let go of the anthology series yet - even after his character's untimely death. Bartlett expressed his desire to come back to the series on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, perhaps with a prequel?
"When we were shooting White Lotus, the night before we started shooting, we had this big dinner and Mike White, the creator, writer, director, extraordinaire of White Lotus, made a speech and said, sort of jokingly, whoever was the nicest person and the best actor gets a spinoff series."
Since his character gets axed, Bartlett chimed in, "So I was like ooo, ooo what about me!"
"And 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."
Sounds like the idea is certainly not off the table...
Bartlett also talks about The Last Of Us, hiding his Emmy in his closet, losing pickle ball, and how he would survive a real-life zombie apocalypse.
Watch the clip below:
Murray Bartlett's Wonderful Love Story in “The Last of Us”www.youtube.com
The out actor is 51-years-old.
Bartlett starred in the decades-spanning Australian soap opera in 1992 as Randy Evans. His character appeared in episode 970.
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
