Aubrey Plaza has recounted an elaborate prank she pulled on her White Lotus costars that left one particularly — Adam DiMarco — completely terrified.
Aubrey and Adam play Harper and Albie respectively within the hit HBO sequence, which facilities a bunch of lodge visitors navigating a sequence of eery, mysterious occasions on the lavish resort.
Final February, the solid and crew spent 5 months on the 4 Seasons San Domenico Palace, a convent-turned-hotel located within the seaside city of Taormina, Italy, as a way to movie the present’s second season.
For a little bit of background, rumor has it that this explicit 4 Seasons lodge is haunted, and White Lotus actor John Gries beforehand admitted that he believed the place “completely was.”
“I don’t imagine in that stuff, however I had desires,” he stated on the purple carpet of the Season 2 premiere in October. “I had desires of individuals standing on the finish of my mattress in that lodge room, dressed from a complete different period, turning and taking a look at me. I used to be like ‘Nah nah nah, you gotta go.’ I’m not kidding, I used to be talking out loud.”
In actual fact, John revealed that he typically woke his girlfriend up after screaming in his sleep. “Many nights did I get up screaming, and she or he’d say ‘What goes with you?’” he stated.
And so, Aubrey — being Aubrey — determined to trigger just a little stir by making an attempt to scare her costars whereas they have been all staying on the spooky lodge.
Detailing the horrific prank she pulled throughout an in depth chat with GQ, Aubrey recalled putting reed diffusers within the form of a giant Blair Witch image on the ground of Adam’s dressing room.
Aiming to scare Adam even additional, Aubrey then determined to ruffle up her room in an analogous manner, earlier than freaking out and asking everybody: “Who did this?”
Nevertheless, leaping in to place an finish to Aubrey’s enjoyable, the lodge employees had their suspicions. “It’s Ms. Plaza,” they declared.
However Aubrey wouldn’t let down, as a substitute throwing the blame onto her costars. “It was Beatrice! It was Simona,” she claimed, talking of Beatrice Grannò and Simona Tabasco, who painting fiery duo Mia and Lucia.
And taking issues up a notch, Aubrey then determined to slide papers with eery messages beneath individuals’s doorways, too.
Nevertheless, Aubrey was ultimately outed because the wrongdoer, with the lodge employees providing up safety footage of her pulling her shenanigans to place an finish to the flowery prank.
And Adam, who was left fully terrified, went as far as to recruit some assist of his personal after being left “questioning” his actuality due to Aubrey.
“I used to be positively questioning my actuality for some time there,” he admitted. “I didn’t know who to belief. It was like Homicide on the Orient Categorical. Everybody was the assassin.”
Reflecting again on the entire thing, Aubrey admitted that scaring “harmless” Adam was “actually sick.”
“Adam was so harmless, like a child chicken. It was actually sick, what I used to be doing to him,” she stated, earlier than occurring to disclose simply how terrified the 32-year-old was.
“I received him to the brink of a psychological break,” she stated.
And it’s no shock that the housekeeping employees in the end intervened and disrupted the prank, provided that based on Aubrey, they noticed her as a “suspicious character.”
“They thought I used to be sketchy. Which I’m,” she stated, with the interviewer noting that Aubrey selected to disregard “pleas” from housekeeping by putting a don’t disturb signal on her lodge room door and “blasting R.E.M.”
Fairly appropriately, The White Lotus’s creator Mike White, who additionally occurs to be a really shut pal of Aubrey’s, later described her as a “disruptor by nature” as he mirrored on the terrifying prank.
“Aubrey’s essentially the most enjoyable,” he stated. “I stated to her face, ‘If I’m on a cross-country journey, I would like nothing greater than so that you can be on that bus with me. But when I’m driving the bus, and you’re on it, I would like you off the bus.’”
