This year, alongside an (almost) entirely new ensemble cast that includes Walton Goggins, Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs and Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood, Monaghan stars as one of a trio of lifelong friends who visit the Thai branch of The White Lotus for a week of sun, spirituality and latent passive aggression.
Even when you’re counting Gone Baby Gone – where she solved a missing persons case with Casey Affleck – or her star-making turn as a struggling actor in Shane Black’s frothy crime comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang… it’s been a hell of a lot of dudes.
That hit a little close to home’ The Mission: Impossible star talks to Adam White about her ‘awkward and confronting’ role in the revered show, acting as a way to pay off her college loans, and the Tom Cruise cake.
Hollywood’s most prolific wife, girlfriend and partner-in-peril, Monaghan has spent 25 years in film and television romantically involved with everyone from Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler to Woody Harrelson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
In the new season of The White Lotus, which arrives on 17 February, Monaghan gives what could be described as a star-reminding performance, at once radiant and completely unbearable.
