“He always had like this contemptuous smirk on his face whenever he was dealing with me like he thought I was a chimp or something”: White Lotus creator Mike White responds to the show’s composer’s claim that he’s quitting

Mike White and Cristobal Tapia de Veer.

White Lotus creator Mike White has responded to claims by the show’s composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer that the two men have “had our last fight” and that he’s quitting the show.

Tapia de Veer came out swinging in an interview with the New York Times, claiming that he and White have been at loggerheads since the start of the show, which has just completed its third season. He also claimed that the writer/director blocked the release of the full version of his most recent main title theme, the edited version of which has received a lukewarm response from fans. This led him to upload it himself to his own YouTube channel.