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‘White Lotus’ Composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer Says He’s Done With Show After Having ‘Last Fight’ With Show Creator Mike White

'White Lotus' composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer talks about why he's done with the hit show after having his 'last fight' with show creator Mike White.

Asked how White responded, Tapia de Veer said the show runner “says a lot of things” that he can’t really talk about at the moment, then described the situation as being like a scene from the 1978 French drag comedy La Cage Aux Folles. “But when we had the talk with Mike, I just told him in a joke that I thought we could do some kind of ‘Hawaiian Hitchcock,’ and he really grabbed on that and he started laughing,” Tapia de Veer said, adding that White’s original temporary score had a “chill, sexy” Ibiza club vibe with “literally no edge to it” that felt like “nice background music.” The Chilean composer who has won three Emmys for his work on the series about rich people behaving horrendously in paradise also discussed the vitriol he’s received from fans about “Enlightenment,” his radical, percussion, accordion and handclap revamp of the show’s theme song for the current Thailand-based season that has been very divisive.

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