Haley Lu Richardson on Gore Verbinski's Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and White Lotus Side Quests: Podcast

"The story kicks off in a diner when a man claiming to be from the future barges in with a detonator and a warning about an impending AI-fueled doom spiral - and from there, it only gets weirder. Richardson says she tore through the script in one sitting. "My agent said, 'Haley, there's a good script. We want you to do it,' which is rare," she explains. "And then I read it all in one sitting... which is also rare.""

"She immediately connected with her character, Ingrid, a princess-dressed mystery with more emotional gravity than first glance suggests. "I could feel myself playing her," Richardson says. "I haven't gotten to play a lot of mysterious characters because I'm not very mysterious. But it's in Ingrid's blood." Verbinski, she adds, treated the film like "a psychotic opera," obsessing over rhythm and tone, even describing the movie as a kind of chili where "Ingrid was the special ingredient.""

"Richardson spent most of the shoot in a handmade corseted princess dress. "They made probably 10 to 20 different versions," she says. "Different amounts dirty or burned or bloody." As for working opposite Sam Rockwell, there's a White Lotus crossover twist: while filming in South Africa, Rockwell was offered his now-iconic scene for Season 3 and asked Richardson to run lines with him. "He was like, 'Is this guy too creepy?'" she recalls."

The film opens in a diner where a man claiming to be from the future barges in with a detonator and warns of an AI-fueled doom spiral. Haley Lu Richardson portrays Ingrid, a princess-dressed mystery carrying unexpected emotional weight. Gore Verbinski returns with a surreal, operatic tone and an obsession with rhythm and texture, likening the film’s flavor to a chili with Ingrid as the special ingredient. Richardson connected immediately with the role, read the script in a single sitting, and spent most of production in a custom corseted princess dress with multiple distressed versions. The ensemble includes Sam Rockwell, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple.

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