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Report: BLACKPINK K-pop Star Lisa to Join Cast of ‘White Lotus’ 

Thai singer Lisa from the group BLACKPINK accepts the Best K-pop award for "Lalisa" during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 28, 2022. (AFP)
Thai singer Lisa from the group BLACKPINK accepts the Best K-pop award for "Lalisa" during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 28, 2022. (AFP)
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Report: BLACKPINK K-pop Star Lisa to Join Cast of ‘White Lotus’ 

Thai singer Lisa from the group BLACKPINK accepts the Best K-pop award for "Lalisa" during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 28, 2022. (AFP)
Thai singer Lisa from the group BLACKPINK accepts the Best K-pop award for "Lalisa" during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on August 28, 2022. (AFP)

BLACKPINK singer Lisa will appear in season 3 of the popular US television series "The White Lotus", making her acting debut and becoming the second member of the popular South Korean K-pop girl group to appear on HBO, Variety reported on Monday.

Lisa will be credited in the show under her full name, Lalisa Manobal, when it airs, Variety said. Her role on the show, which focuses on intrigue at exotic resorts, was not disclosed.

Season 3 of White Lotus will begin production in Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok, Thailand, in February, Variety reported.

All four members of BLACKPINK have renewed their contracts with South Korea's YG Entertainment Inc, the label said in December, sending shares of the company up by nearly a third.

Lisa's bandmate Jennie appeared in the HBO drama "The Idol" in 2023, credited under the moniker Jennie Ruby Jane.

BLACKPINK set a Guinness record earlier this year for having the most-viewed music channel on YouTube, which now boasts over 90 million subscribers.

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Italy's Paolo Sorrentino, US Star Dafoe Honored at Sarajevo Film Fest

A pedestrian walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River, nearly dried up and covered with algae, amid a heatwave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A pedestrian walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River, nearly dried up and covered with algae, amid a heatwave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
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Italy's Paolo Sorrentino, US Star Dafoe Honored at Sarajevo Film Fest

A pedestrian walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River, nearly dried up and covered with algae, amid a heatwave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
A pedestrian walks across a bridge over the Miljacka River, nearly dried up and covered with algae, amid a heatwave and drought in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will be honored at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, which kicks off on Friday, alongside star actors Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone and Stellan Skarsgard.

Sorrentino - known for "Il Divo", "The Hand of God" and "The Great Beauty", which was recognized as best foreign language film at the 2014 Academy Awards - will get the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the event which will show a retrospective of his films.

"Paolo Sorrentino managed to do what every filmmaker dreams of – he left a global impact through local, personal stories, festival director Jovan Reuters quoted Marjanovic as saying in a statement.

US actor Dafoe - who turned 70 last month and has starred in everything from "Poor Things" to "Spider-Man" - will also get an Honorary Heart, as will Britain's Winstone and Sweden's Skarsgard.

More than 250 films will be shown at the festival, which was founded by a group of movie enthusiasts towards the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war.

Black comedy "Pavilion" by Bosnian film and theater director Dino Mustafic will open the program. It is the only Bosnian film made this year, reflecting the parlous state of the Balkan country's industry and a lack of government support, the association of Bosnia's film directors said this week.

Ukrainian film director Sergei Loznitsa will chair the festival jury. Nine co-productions from southern, central and eastern Europe will compete for the best feature film award, selector Elma Tataragic said.

The festival will show a selection of Arab cinematography in cooperation with the Doha Film Institute, including one showing footage of life in Gaza in the early 2000s.