The White Lotus on Bequia ?
"The White Lotus" is a fictional dark comedy-drama series satirising the excesses of the affluent through the lens of vacationers and staff at a fictional luxury resort chain, exploring various themes of privilege and human behaviour in stunning surroundings. Each season follows a different group of guests and employees at a new location within the White Lotus resort chain, as they navigate their vacation and the complexities of their lives.
With the global popularity of Season 3, we turned to the oracle of the internet and playfully imagined what a fictional Season 4 cast & characters might look like if it was set on little Bequia!
🏝️ The Cast List 🏝️
The Owner
Cast: Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson plays Augustus “Gus” Van Hoyt, a retired entrepreneur and the eccentric owner of White Lotus: Bequia.
Once a feared raider on Wall Street, Gus now presides over his Caribbean project with a mix of old-world charm and unpredictable explosive intensity. To guests, he’s a larger-than-life figure—barefoot at the bar one moment, regaling them with wild stories of past exploits, then vanishing for days. As the season unfolds, Gus becomes a looming presence—his disarming knowing-grin hiding razor-sharp instincts and everyone knows nothing happens on Bequia without Gus knowing first.
The Aging Heiress with Secrets
Cast: Joanna Lumley
She's a once-renowned socialite clinging to relevance, hosting lavish sunset dinners in her gorgeous villa. She’s charming but utterly ruthless. Thinks the island "belongs" to her because she's been coming for decades.
Her Ne'er-do-Well Son
Cast: Nicholas Hoult
A trust fund kid in his early 30s, hanging out in Bequia to “find himself,” but mostly drinking strong rum and starting doomed romances with inappropriate people. Spoiled and entitled but charming enough to fool people.
The Wellness Couple
Cast: Jessica Chastain & Pedro Pascal
Jessica runs a high-end spiritual wellness brand from LA, bringing her brooding husband along under the guise of “healing their marriage.” She’s all about showing the island’s yoga teacher ‘how it’s really done’ detoxes and Instagrammable retreats; he’s secretly planning an exit strategy.
The Honeymooners
Cast: Paul Mescal & Zendaya
Paul’s character worked his way up from nothing, while Zendaya’s character comes from old money but rejects it (or tries to). Young, earnest, and out of their depth.
They’re cute at first but honeymoon is well and truly ‘over’ as cracks start to appear as the show unfolds
The Eccentric Billionaire Yacht Couple
Cast: Pierce Brosnan & Demi Moore
Outrageously wealthy tech billionaires who’ve dropped anchor off Bequia on their brand-new sprawling mega-yacht. Reknowned for throwing exclusive, no-holds-barred parties that the rich and reckless whisper about but rarely survive unscathed.
They don’t actually stay at The White Lotus resort but are constantly sending tenders to fetch select guests to come party on the yacht. Everyone is desperate for an invite, but no one really knows what happens once you’re onboard.
The Resort Manager
Cast: Daniel Brühl
With most of his playboy days behind him… Smoldering & smooth - unwaveringly professional; a poster-boy alumni for Swiss hospitality schooling, but you can sense his simmering resentment as managing drama between eccentric guests, the honeymooners’ spiralling marriage, and illegal side hustles.
Plays a delicate game, but he’s got his own plot going on.
The Local Guide ‘Danny’
Cast: Idris Elba
Charismatic, funny, but there's a darkness behind his easygoing persona. He takes the guests on excursions, but maybe he’s more connected to the island’s underbelly than they realize.
Some say he was once a fisherman who lost everything in a hurricane. Others hint he did time in his youth for smuggling. Now, he’s carved out a role as the guy who can get things done—for the right price.
Desmond the local Taxi driver
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr
Desmond, known to everyone as "Des," is one of the island’s longest-running taxi drivers. He operates an aging but well-maintained Toyota pick-up with reggae always playing softly in the background. He’s affable, funny, and knows everybody's business—but he’s smart enough to act like he doesn’t.
Des is more than just the driver—he’s the island’s unofficial information broker. He knows where the bodies are buried (sometimes literally) and how the money flows behind the scenes.
The Expats & Islanders
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Meryl Streep
They run an art gallery-meets-cannabis retreat-meets-dive bar combo, pretending they’re “one with the locals” but as eccentric as they come. They hold full-moon parties on uninhabited beaches and hangout with the yacht crowd but are hiding something…
Cast: Queen Latifah
The fearsome matriarch runs a family-owned restaurant that’s been serving authentic Vincy cuisine for generations. Influential on the island, don’t get on her wrong side or you’ll be on the rocks!
Perched on a quiet stretch of beach, her open-air restaurant is famous for its grilled lobster, callaloo soup, and rum punch that’s strong enough to make you confess your sins.
Cast: Olivia Colman & Michael Ward
Olivia Colman plays a sharp-tongued British expat turned recluse, rarely seen outside her scruffy hilltop-villa, clinging to a world long-forgotten after fleeing scandal back home.
By her side is Michael Ward, her much younger, charismatic local boyfriend—part lover, part accessory—who’s playing his own game, quietly leveraging Olivia while plotting his own way out.
Their relationship is a volatile mix of power, desire, and mutual exploitation that everyone on the island is watching… and whispering about.
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This article was created with assistance from AI.
All characters, descriptions and scenarios are fictional