Parker Posey is explaining how she came up with the already much-talked-about southern drawl she uses as Violet Ratliff in the third season of “The White Lotus.”
Violet is the pill-popping matriarch of a wealthy North Carolina family vacationing at the posh resort’s Thailand location with her husband (Jason Isaac) and three children (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook).
Posey says her exaggerated accent was inspired by her own southern roots – she grew up in Mississippi — as well as “The Official Preppy Handbook.” “Do you know who James Spader is, the snob?
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