Mike White is checking right into a confrontation with the previous “White Lotus” composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer.
The present’s creator, 54, appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday and stated Tapia de Veer, 51, quitting the present was “kind of a bitch move.”
“I honestly don’t know what happened, except now I’m reading his interviews because he decides to do some p.r. campaign about him leaving the show,” White stated.
“I don’t think he respected me,” White claimed. “He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m … I don’t know, like, I watch reality TV. We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes.”
Tapia de Veer, who composed the theme songs for the primary three seasons of the present, instructed the New York Instances final week that he and White “had our last fight forever” earlier than he give up the sequence. He additionally claimed that White “was just saying no to anything” throughout the course of of creating the Season 3 theme track.
“I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me,” White stated about Tapia de Veer. “I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way.”
The “Survivor” alum defined that he “was thrown” that Tapia de Veer spoke to the press “to s–t on me and the show” three days earlier than the stunning finale. “It was kind of a bitch move.”
White additional alleged that Tapia de Veer grew to become defiant as soon as they began engaged on the Thailand season.
“By the time the third season came around, he’d won Emmys and he had his song go viral,” White stated. “He didn’t want to go through the process with me, he didn’t want to go to [recording] sessions. He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face, like he thought I was a chimp or something. He’s definitely making a big deal out of a creative difference.”
White additionally stated that whereas Tapia de Veer “is very talented,” White has “never kissed somebody’s ass so hard to just … lead that horse to water.”
“Have fun with whatever you’re doing next,” White concluded.
The Publish has reached out to Tapia de Veer’s rep for remark.
In his Instances interview, Tapia de Veer stated, “Maybe I was being unprofessional, and for sure Mike feels that I was always unprofessional to him because I didn’t give him what he wanted. But what I gave him … those Emmys, people going crazy. That is the main thing that I’m most happy about.”
“It was worth all the tension and almost forcing the music into the show, in a way, because I didn’t have that many allies in there,” the composer added.
Tapia de Veer is not going to be concerned in “The White Lotus” Season 4, which has not began taking pictures.
On Stern’s radio present, White revealed that he’s at the moment “negotiating” his take care of HBO for the subsequent season.
“I’m definitely curious to find out what that [amount] is,” White stated. “I feel like I have financial security for sure … At a certain point with money, [you wonder]: ‘Is this going to make me worse? Is having more money just going to make me more dysfunctional?’”
