Warning: This post contains spoilers for The White Lotus Season 2 (but not Emily in Paris).
The life of an actor is an exciting one. They do jobs that can take them all over the world, from one genre to another. Indeed, an actor who had a small but critical role in one of HBO’s most messed-up (but funny) shows is also a regular on maybe Netflix’s lightest programs. And it’s blowing people’s minds.
— Danielle Kramer (@ocgirldani) December 22, 2022
His name is Bruno Gouery. To fans of Emily in Paris, the French actor has long been Luc, one of the titular American expat’s quirky coworkers at the marketing firm Savoir. To fans of The White Lotus, he’s Didier, one of the murderous “gays” from Season 2. Not everyone who watches the darkly comic White Lotus also watches the comically fluffy Emily in Paris. But those who do (or at least saw some commercials for Emily in Paris, which just dropped its third season) were in for a shock that the same actor, rocking almost the same puffy ‘do, can do both.
— Sophia Money-Coutts (@sophiamcoutts) December 22, 2022
just realized that I recognized one of the gays in white lotus bc he’s in emily in paris
— camille (@gaptooothcammy) December 22, 2022
It was driving me crazy that one of the “gays” is also in Emily in Paris pic.twitter.com/sJ4RIqO99H
— Danielle Kramer (@ocgirldani) December 22, 2022
On The White Lotus, Didier was part of the gang of secretly evil funloving jet setters, lorded over by Tom Hollander’s scheming Quentin. He was there on the yacht in the final episode, when Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya almost narrowly escaped death. He was one of the ones who ate it, shot in the back, before Tanya took her accidentally fatal fall. Gouery’s role on Emily in Paris is quite different (unless he’s furtively plotting Emily’s death, too). Some imagined he was the same character.
— Shawn Parikh (@ShawnParikh) December 21, 2022
so if this guy is still with us it means emily in paris occurs before white lotus in time pic.twitter.com/5HgypnoZU8
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) December 22, 2022
Others imagined a crossover episode.
— Shawn Parikh (@ShawnParikh) December 21, 2022
an Emily in Paris x White Lotus cross over with him pic.twitter.com/U9fzQZgMzC
— jamesy (@noswearspls) December 14, 2022
So congrats to Bruno Gouery. People now know this once semi-obscure French actor has range.