Alexandra Daddario Responds To Those Who Call Her “A Bad Actress”: “I Have An Emmy Nomination”​on March 1, 2025 at 6:39 pm

After more than a decade on screen, Alexandra Daddario has a message for her critics.

The Emmy Award nominee recently addressed the “most outrageous rumor” about herself “that won’t go away” despite her nod for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Season 1 of HBO‘s The White Lotus.

“That I’m a bad actress. I’m not a bad actress,” she told Elle during their drinking game ‘Thirst Trap’. “I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. Okay? Director and the writing is everything, and sometime’s I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination. How do you think I did that?”

Following her Emmy-nominated performance as newlywed journalist Rachel Patton in the show’s 2021 Hawaii-set debut season, Daddario previously told Deadline that The White Lotus creator Mike White has ideas for Rachel and husband Shane (Jake Lacy) to return for a cameo in a future season.

“Shane and I would be on a boat, talking about other people, annoying everyone around us,” she explained. “Mike’s brain is always working. That’s the whole thing with his commentary on the world around him: He’s always observing.”

Although in 2022, Daddario noted that “my agent hasn’t reached out yet” about a Season 2 appearance, perhaps the characters will make a return for the current third season, set in Thailand.

Meanwhile, Daddario can currently be seen starring as Rowan Fielding on Mayfair Witches, with the Season 2 finale of the Anne Rice-based series airing Sunday at 9/8c on AMC and streaming on AMC+.