Albie Di Grasso is a nice, handsome young man. This much, everyone on The White Lotus season two can agree. The character, played by 32-year-old Adam DiMarco, is a Stanford grad on a tense trip to Sicily with his old school grandfather, Bert (F. Murray Abraham), and his philandering Hollywood exec father, Dominic (Michael Imperioli). The rest of his family bailed after learning about his dad’s many infidelities.
In the face of Bert and Dominic’s bad behavior, Albie tries to course-correct by being extremely respectful to women, sometimes to his own detriment. He takes a particular interest in Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), the long-suffering personal assistant to Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) … and swiftly gets rejected in favor of the more aggressive British hooligan, Jack (Leo Woodall). But by episode four, he’s caught the eye of the scrappy and charming local sex worker, Lucia (Simona Tabasco), who, unbeknownst to Albie, has already seen his father a few times. Mamma mia!
Adam DiMarco hopped on a call with GQ to psychoanalyze Albie, tell us about watching The Godfather for the first time in Sicily, and discuss whether or not Albie has any game.
GQ: I heard the hotel was haunted.
Adam DiMarco: Allegedly.
Allegedly.
It’s a really old hotel and it used to be a convent. I heard Jon Gries [who plays Greg] telling this story of a nightmare he had and I just couldn’t believe it because I had the exact same nightmare two nights before. There’s this bald man who was walking back and forth and approached the foot of our bed and grabbed us. I woke up screaming and I didn’t really think anything of it until Jon mentioned his story. I was like, “Okay, I’ve never had any paranormal experiences. Other than that, I guess.” It was just so weird that the stories corroborated so cleanly.
Well, congrats on the show. What appealed to you about Albie?
I got the material and immediately connected to Albie. There were a lot of similarities between us and obviously the show’s fucking amazing. It’s very rare that you get a chance to do a second season of something that’s already been established—and established as great. The biggest no-brainer of my life.
Had you seen the first season?
I had watched the first episode, but I was in a weird headspace and I didn’t know if the show would exacerbate that headspace. I was like, “I need to watch The Bachelor.” I went back to finish it when I got the audition, then I binge-watched the whole show and I was just going around telling everyone, “you guys gotta watch The White Lotus.” It was months too late. Everyone was like, “yeah, we’ve done it.”
The same thing happened to me when I was in Sicily, because I finally watched The Godfather for the show. Meghann Fahy [who plays Daphne] and I watched it and then we were just going around to everyone: “Have you guys seen The Godfather? It’s really good.” And everyone was like, “yeah, we know this.”
Gabriella Paiella
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