Connie Britton isn’t ruling out a White Lotus return — but it all depends on the location.
“I keep telling them, ‘Listen, when you’re ready to do White Lotus: Aspen, let’s do it,’” Britton, 58, quipped during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly while discussing her new Hallmark Channel reality series, The Motherhood. “I can pull that off.”
Britton, who played Nicole in season 1, still gets asked about the show, adding, “I have talked for several years to [creator] Mike White about shooting another season of that show, which I would love to do.”
While Britton is interested in coming back, it isn’t that easy.
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“We shot that show during COVID. So my son was able to go with me when we shot it,” the actress, who adopted now-14-year-old son Eyob (nicknamed Yoby) in 2011, explained. “He would do COVID Zoom school starting at 5:00 a.m. from Hawaii. But that show now means you go spend six months in Thailand to shoot [a season].”
Taking that much time away from home is “not realistic” for Britton right now. “As much as I would love to do it,” she noted. “It’s a whole thing. I’ve definitely had to say no to [other jobs before].”
Since becoming a mother, Britton has always prioritized her son. She adopted Eyob when she was starring on Nashville as country singer Rayna, which proved to be overwhelming.
“I just went off to Nashville and started shooting the show, and I had this baby and I didn’t even really know how to be a mother yet,” she explained to Us. “It was kind of traumatizing because I had no support system in Nashville, and I was working, you know, sometimes 15, 16, 17 hours a day, and it was a lot of work. I realized that that was one of the things that still sticks out to me is when you first become a parent, the learning curve of, ‘Oh, I need to think about things differently now and I need to make choices differently now because now I am thinking for a whole other person who can’t think for themselves.’”
Britton, who has raised Yoby on her own, has used that experience to shape how she approaches new projects. That includes The Motherhood, which is an unscripted project that follows Britton as she connects with another single mom who is juggling the demands of work, parenting and self-care.
With help from Britton and three expert coaches — DIY and home design specialist Angela Rose, positive parenting coach Destini Ann and style expert Taryn Hicks — the mom is able to create a better living space, while getting help to refresh her wardrobe and getting parenting advice.
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“When I became a single mom, it was kind of a big awakening for me where I realized, like, ‘Whoa, this is no joke.’ Obviously being a parent period is a big, big transition and a big change in life, but doing it by yourself is kind of a whole other thing,” Britton told Us. “And so I learned in that process how important having a community is and a support system. I started thinking, ‘Gosh, I’m one of the lucky ones. I am able to have help when I need it. And so many single moms and single parents in the world don’t have the privilege of that.’”
Britton was determined to “really change the cultural perspective” on single parenthood.
“I’m hopeful that this show is going to kind of help contribute to reshaping how we think about single parents and maybe look out for each other a little bit more in our communities and say, ‘Oh, I would love to lend a hand to this person,’” she added. “As they say, it takes a village.”
The Motherhood premieres Monday, May 5, on the Hallmark Channel and streams next day on Hallmark+.
