Members of The White Lotus cast and crew have shared their support for victims of the recent devastating earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand.
“The White Lotus team and all of us at Max are holding the people of Myanmar and Thailand close to our hearts today,” a Friday, March 28, Instagram statement read. “We send our deepest sympathies to those affected by this tragedy.”
Season 3 of the hit anthology series, currently airing on Max, was filmed in Thailand. Show star Patrick Schwarzenegger reposted the series’ tribute onto his own Instagram Story account.
“Praying for Thailand,” Schwarzenegger, 31, wrote.
A 7.7-magnitude quake ravaged Southeast Asia on Friday, killing more than 1,000 individuals and flattening numerous skyscraper buildings, per ABC News. The epicenter of the natural disaster was in Mandalay, Myanmar.
As Myanmar is part of the British Commonwealth, King Charles III also released a statement regarding the tragedy.
“To the people of Myanmar, my wife [Queen Camilla] and I were most dreadfully shocked and saddened to learn of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar with its tragic loss of life and appalling damage to homes, buildings and livelihoods,” Charles, 76, wrote in a Saturday, March 29, statement released via social media. “Not to mention, the destruction of sacred pagodas, monasteries and other places of worship.”
He added, “I know that the people of Myanmar continue to endure so much hardship and tragedy in your lives, and I have long admired your extraordinary resilience and spirit. At this most difficult and heartbreaking of times, my wife and I send our deepest possible sympathy to all those who have suffered the profound tragedy of losing their loved ones, their homes and their precious livelihoods.”
The White Lotus episodes only filmed parts of season 3 in Thailand and not Myanmar, but did highlight a temple and a cultural center from the Commonwealth territory. Production was mostly based in Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok.
“They were all very different. My favorite was probably in Phuket, as well,” Schwarzenegger told the Bangkok Post earlier this month. “We got to spend a lot of time out on the — if you saw in the trailer — on the yacht and we got to go to the Phi Phi Islands and film all around on the ocean. The hotels we stayed at were beautiful, but I too like to do excursions and kind of experience what I perceived as Thailand — that screensaver beautiful landscape of the ocean and the islands.”
