The White Lotus Season 4 Features AJ Michalka and Alexander Ludwig

“The White Lotus” has found the first of its new recruits for season 4 in the person of AJ Michalka and Alexander Ludwig.

Michalka (“The Goldbergs,” “Super 8”) and Ludwig (“Earth Abides,” “Vikings) are the first Season 4 cast members to be officially announced by HBO, although it has been reported that Helena Bonham Carter is also in talks to join the HBO series, although HBO has not confirmed her casting.

The two actors will travel to France to film the fourth installment, which, as usual, will follow a new group of guests and employees of the White Lotus Hotel for a week.

Best known for forming the pop duo Aly & AJ alongside her sister, Aly Michalka, the Disney Channel alum’s film and TV credits date back to “General Hospital,” “Secretariat,” “Cow Belles” and “The Lovely Bones,” while her most recent TV projects include “The Good Doctor,” “The Goldbergs” and “The Goldbergs” spinoff, “Schooled.”

Ludwig’s credits include “Vikings,” “The Hunger Games,” “Bad Boys for Life,” “Swerve,” “Earth Abides” and “Marked Men.”

As rumors began circulating this fall that Mike White might bring “The White Lotus” to France for Season 4, HBO began filming in Paris and the French Riviera in late October, with filming expected to begin in 2026. HBO boss Casey Bloys told TheWrap in September that White was “starting writing and thinking about his ideas.”

Like previous seasons, White serves as creator, writer and director, and White produces alongside David Bernad and Mark Kamine.

The season 3 cast included Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood. The third installment also welcomed back season 1 stars Natasha Rothwell and Jon Gries.

Ludwig is represented by Untitled Entertainment, Gersh and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Michalka is represented by UTA, Amplified and Mckuin, Frankel, Whitehead.