Sydney Sweeney Reveals Olivia's Motivations in The White Lotus

April 2024 ยท 1 minute read

This also plays into Olivia's friendship with Paula, which is contentious, at best.

In Sydney's eyes, Olivia wants to be Paula, explaining how the elder Mossbacher sibling viewed her friend as the "independent well-rounded person," she should be. But as Paula asserted that same independence throughout the show, Olivia began to feel like "she was losing control over Paula."

"There definitely is a love that Olivia has for Paula, I think that it just came across in a possessive, controlling kind of way of," she explains. "Olivia [thinks she] should be getting anything and everything Paula gets, i.e. guys, crushes, anything like that."

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