Mike White will not be against competing on The Wonderful Race once more — and this time, he's hoping to race world wide with Sydney Sweeney.
Sweeney, 28, first expressed curiosity in competing on the fast-paced CBS actuality collection with The White Lotus creator, telling Variety on Monday, October 27, “Truthfully, Mike and I'd be a killer group.”
White, 55, responded to Sweeney's feedback, telling the outlet, “I'd positively win along with her. She's the grasp at getting what she needs. And I imply that in a fully great way.”
Sweeney starred on season 1 of The White Lotus, one in all White's most profitable tasks, after he competed on seasons 14 and 18 of The Wonderful Race together with his dad, Mel White, and season 37 of Survivor, the place he got here in second place to Nick Wilson.
White has by no means received a actuality present, however he will probably be getting one other likelihood at bringing residence the $1 million prize when Survivor: Within the Palms of the Followers airs subsequent yr.
“The factor that's most attention-grabbing about Mike taking part in for the second time is there isn't any hiding that he's the largest author, director, present creator on the planet proper now, and he wished to come back again and play Survivor,” Survivor host Jeff Probst advised The Hollywood Reporter in August of the upcoming fiftieth season of the present.
Probst, 63, acknowledged the blended fan response to seeing somebody as profitable as White come again to play the sport, saying, “Some individuals are actually excited to see him play,” whereas others “can't consider he stated sure.” Probst urged folks cease asking “‘Why would you go do it?'” and as a substitute “ought to be asking, ‘Why are you doing it?'”
Mel and Mike White on ‘The Wonderful Race'. Monty Brinton/CBS through Getty Photographs
“I'm stunned folks aren't asking, ‘Why is without doubt one of the best writers within the historical past of Hollywood so enthusiastic about Survivor?'” Probst added. “What's it that Mike is studying about people and conduct and situational ethics that he applies to his craft? As a result of I feel that's a part of why he does it — he's on the market in an actual incubator of human conduct the place you by no means know what's going to occur, however what you do know is that for those who present as much as play Survivor, you possibly can research it.”
He identified the connection between Survivor and The White Lotus characters, explaining, “And if you watch White Lotus, what are you watching? You're watching human conduct all day. I feel that's a part of the explanation Mike is again, and for those who don't perceive that, possibly you're asking the mistaken query.”
The present's all-star season may even function different fan favorites from years previous, like Cirie Fields, Aubry Bracco, Christian Hubicki and Angelina Keeley. Each Hubicki, 39, and Keeley, 36, have made the crossover to The White Lotus, with cameo appearances.
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“I used to be somewhat frazzled; I used to be operating late,” Keeley advised Vulture in October 2022 of discovering out White wished her to be a part of The White Lotus' second season in Italy together with Survivor's Kara Kay. “As I sat down, he goes, ‘I'm placing you two in White Lotus.' I used to be like, ‘Oh, that's humorous, let's get some mimosas and lattes.' Why would he allow us to goofballs wherever close to his set? Mike was entrance row to a number of the worst performing moments of my life on Survivor: jacketgate and the faux idol.”
Kay, 37, chimed in, saying, “Fairly early on we knew there was American Lady No. 1 and American Lady No. 2. He stored saying ‘opening scene'; I used to be like, ‘Possibly we're within the background, waving, consuming some cocktails.' Then we acquired a draft of the script and realized, ‘Oh, we now have strains, we're going to say one thing. We're going to be performing.'”
