Sydney Sweeney and Mike White made magic on the first season of The White Lotus, so why not join forces on The Amazing Race? Sweeney recently acknowledged that she’d love to go on the reality show with White as her teammate, telling Variety, “Honestly, Mike and I would be a killer team.”
In the same interview, White concurred. “I would definitely win with her,” he said. “She’s the master at getting what she wants. And I mean that in an absolutely good way.”
White previously competed on The Amazing Race twice. He lost Seasons 14 and 18 of the long-running reality series with his father Mel White as his teammate, and has also appeared on Survivor: David vs. Goliath.
“Part of my job and my way of life is studying people and analyzing motivation and character. I still feel like, even on the most contrived reality show, the people are human and they’re more interesting than some of the most well-scripted drama,” White told The New Yorker in 2021 about his love of participating on reality TV shows. “And for me, as a writer of drama, I aspire to do what reality television already does. To create characters that are surprising and dimensional and do weird shit and capture your attention.”
Sweeney starred in the first season of The White Lotus as teenager Olivia Mossbacher, the daughter of Connie Britton’s Nicole and Steve Zahn’s Mark. Elsewhere in the Variety interview, White acknowledged that he would love for Sweeney to reprise her character on a future season of The White Lotus, but isn’t optimistic about the prospect. “I don’t know if we could afford her now,” he said. “As of now, it doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen.”
White has also floated the idea of an all-star edition of The White Lotus, which could bring back multiple fan favorites. “It would be easy to just be full-on anthology, but I think it’s more fun to have little threads through the show,” he said in 2023. “If the show goes on for a couple of seasons, it would be fun to have an all-star season.”
Season 3 of The White Lotus, set in Thailand, aired on HBO earlier this year. In April, White said he wanted the next edition of the drama series to “get a little bit out of the ‘crashing waves against rocks’ vernacular.” It has since been reported that the production will move to France, although the exact location has not been officially announced.
