‘The White Lotus’ Season 3, episode 7: You have heard Sritala’s tune earlier than

If you happen to’re watching The White Lotus Season 3, episode 7, you would possibly hear a well-known tune.

Within the scenes involving Rick (Walton Goggins) and Frank’s (Sam Rockwell) Hollywood manufacturing ploy to get into Sritala (Lek Patravadi) and Jim Hollinger’s (Scott Glenn) Bangkok mansion, there is a second that not solely connects the episode to a earlier episode of The White Lotus, however connects to Patravadi’s actual singing profession.

Let’s get into it.

What occurs in The White Lotus Season 3, episode 7?

Having efficiently talked his method into the Hollinger’s sprawling Bangkok residence, Rick convinces Jim (the person he believes murdered his father) to take their very own dialog into the den.

In the meantime, Sritala and Frank (posing as Hollywood director Steve) proceed their very own chat concerning the potential of casting the White Lotus proprietor and well-known Thai actor and singer in an upcoming blockbuster that does not exist. Maintaining the ruse of curiosity in Sritala’s profession, Frank finds himself in the lounge watching previous movies of Sritala performing a folks/rap quantity on a TV present from when she was 25 years previous, surrounded by dancers.

“Thats you? You’re right there? You’re the one with the rhinestones?” asks Frank. “I mean, it’s like MC Hammer, Peter Pan, it’s got a little Pippin.”

And it is this tune you could possibly have heard earlier than, each inside and outdoors The White Lotus.

The place have you ever heard Sritala’s tune earlier than?

Rick (Walton Goggins) and Sritala (Lek Patravadi).
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The tune Sritala exhibits Frank is the exact same tune she sings onstage on the The White Lotus restaurant in episode 2. But it surely’s additionally an actual clip of Patravadi (the long-lasting Thai actor and singer who additionally goes by Patravadi “Lek” Mejudhon) performing the tune on her personal TV present in 1992. You may watch the clip she watches with Frank right here:

Patravadi and her group had conversations with The White Lotus music supervisor Gabe Hilfer throughout the pre-production interval, and the lauded artist ended up returning to the studio to revisit the tune only for the present.

“She re-recorded that song for us in episode 2,” Hilfer informed Mashable. “We had her do a couple other songs, and she recorded them for us, but we didn’t end up using them…They were great, her versions were incredible, but the way that that whole sequence got edited down, it lent itself to only having that one song in there.”

Understanding that Patravadi is definitely watching herself on TV from a earlier a part of each her and Sritala’s profession within the episode 7 scene makes it all of the extra charming, as Rockwell rightfully dubs her character an “icon” as he leaves. It seems like Mike White and The White Lotus itself pay homage to a display screen and stage legend with this musical Easter egg, a pleasant inclusion.

The White Lotus Season 3 is now streaming on Max with new episodes weekly at 9 p.m. ET Sundays on HBO.