- BLACKPINK's Lisa will make her debut as an actress in season 3 of “The White Lotus”.
- Lisa's role has not yet been specified and she will be credited as Larisa Manobar.
- Her casting makes her the second Blackpink member to star in an HBO show.
Blackpink's Lisa will make her acting debut and join the cast of Season 3 of “The White Lotus,” HBO announced Monday.
The Korean music idol's role has not been revealed, but she will be credited under her real name, Larisa Manobal, on the show.
There are many roles the actor could take on: Deadline reported in November that the new season will feature “a family matriarch, a corporate executive, an actress, a mother of several, a sociopath, a yogi,” and more. That's what it means. .
The management company Manobar launched last week also confirmed the announcement in a Facebook post on Monday. Variety was the first to report this news.
The series will begin filming this month in Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok, Thailand. Manobar's casting was announced along with two other actors, Scott Glenn and Julian Kostoff.
Manobar, along with group member Jenny, will appear as one of the two Black Pink idols to appear on the HBO show. Jenny co-starred with Lily-Rose Depp in “The Idol,'' playing Jenny Ruby Jane, a backup dancer and singer.
The show's casting process has already been in the news this year, both for its star-studded lineup and the controversy surrounding one of its hires.
Serbian actor Milos Byković was recently removed from the show after being accused by the Ukrainian government of supporting Russia's “genocide” during President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Bikovich criticized the decision to remove him from the show.
“I grew up in a war-torn country,” Bikovich wrote in a previous statement to Business Insider. “When I was 11 years old, I endured days and nights in a shelter while my homeland and hometown were bombed. No one could have wished such devastation on me.”
New cast members for Season 3 of “The White Lotus” include Patrick Schwarzenegger, Amy Lou Wood, Nicolas DuVernay, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, and more.
A representative for Manobar did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
