'White Lotus' Creator Mike White Reacts to Show's Composer Exiting the Series, Responds to His Interview: 'A B-tch Move'
The creator of The White Lotus, Mike White, is reacting to the show’s composer, Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, exiting the series and doing a press interview claiming they did not get along.
Post season three finale, Mike said on the Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, “I honestly don’t know what happened, except now I’m reading his interviews because he decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show. I don’t think he respected me. He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m… don’t know, like I watch reality TV.”
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Mike continued, “We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to sh-t on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kinda of a b-tch move.”
Mike added, “By the time the third season came around, he’d won Emmys and he had his song go viral, he didn’t want to go through the process with me, he didn’t want to go to sessions. He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something … he’s definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference.
He shared, “He is very talented. [But] I’ve never kissed somebody’s ass so hard to just get him to — to lead that horse to water. Have fun with whatever you’re doing next.”
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