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'The White Lotus' Longest-Running Guest Speaks: Jon Gries on How Things Panned Out for Greg

"I've been reluctantly dubbed 'the mayor,'" says the three-season alum.

But the only thing he dispatched was 1 percent of his fortune — giving Belinda ( Natasha Rothwell) a very handsome direct deposit of $5 million in exchange for her and son Zion’s (Nicholas Duvernay) silence over the suspicious death (read: murder) of his late wife, Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge). After she unsuccessfully pitched Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) on a cuckholding three-way with oedipal undertones in episode seven, a suitable partner seemed to be selected just before the credits rolled on the season finale. Ahead of the finale, Gries spoke at length with The Hollywood Reporter for an exclusive oral history, and got into the evolution of his once-doomed character and why Greg and Chloe might be the show’s perfect couple.

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