It’s no secret that The White Lotus is a star-making conveyor belt for young actors. Just look at the stratospheric trajectories of alumni like Lukas Gage, Leo Woodall and Haley Lu Richardson, to name a few. It was exactly what Canadian actor Adam DiMarco needed when he was asked to play the painfully earnest Stanford graduate Albie Di Grasso in season two. “I was definitely questioning where my career was going a bit before White Lotus came around… it changed my life for sure,” the 35-year-old tells me over Zoom. He’s perched awkwardly beneath a towering, wedding-style floral arch. Beside him, a sign screams the title of his next project in blood-red lettering: Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen — the opening salvo of his post-breakout era.
In the eight-part dread-filled horror, out now on Netflix, DiMarco is the golden retriever fiancé to Camila Morrone’s fearless — if somewhat neurotic — Rachel. Days before their wedding, Rachel’s mild pre-ceremony jitters escalate into a deep paranoia upon meeting her deranged in-laws and discovering a sinister curse. True to its title, the show delivers all the hallmarks of a gripping horror: mirror jumpscares aplenty, lots of blood and enough drawn-out suspense to send your nervous system into overdrive.
