‘The White Lotus’: Mike White Calls Composer “S**tting On” Him & Show Before Finale “A B**ch Move”

“The White Lotus” has finished its third season on Sunday, and given the massive ratings, a fourth season is most likely going to happen, but Chilean-Canadian composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer won’t be coming back after quitting the hit HBO series. Show creator Mike White has some colorful responses when it comes to that dust-up after the composer told the New York Times the two “already had our last fight forever” (suggesting that their working relationship is completely toast).

White talked about the feud and exchanged some jabs of his own while on “The Howard Stern Show” (via THR) while refuting any real “feud” going on as they were working together on the latest season of “The White Lotus” and seemed taken aback from those comments to the New York Times.

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“I honestly don’t know what happened, except now I’m reading his interviews because he decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show,” White told Stern this week. “I don’t think he respected me. He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m, I don’t know, like I watch reality TV. We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me or wanting revisions because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to shit on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a bitch move.”

White then downplayed rumblings of the fourth season heading to South America (some trades have mentioned Europe as a possible locale as well) when directly asked by Stern, after revealing he is heading to Colombia for some much-needed relaxation and to get his straight by leaving Los Angeles for a little bit as he is re-negotiating with HBO.

“I don’t think we’re going to go to South America, probably not, but I’ve never been there. Maybe one day we could do it there. I just feel like I got to get out of L.A.,” White said when pressed about the setting of season four by Stern.

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Whatever the case, it certainly sounds like those two won’t be getting together anytime soon and White likely will be a little more selective when hiring folks to collaborate with him in the future.