2025年，备受瞩目的两部剧集《白莲花》第三季和《异形：地球》均在泰国取景拍摄。值得关注的是，这两部剧集还共享一位演员。在《异形：地球》的首集中，曾在《白莲花》第三季中饰演保安Gaitok的Tayme Thapthimthong，饰演了搜救队成员Anant。然而，作为“异形”系列的一部分，Anant不幸成为新出现的蜱虫状外星生物的牺牲品，被吸干血液而亡。Thapthimthong的这次亮相，也让他加入了在“异形”系列中遭遇惨烈死亡的演员行列。文章还探讨了未来《白莲花》中的角色与《异形：地球》中的外星生物进行对抗的可能性，并提到了Parker Posey饰演的Victoria Ratliff。

《异形：地球》与《白莲花》第三季在2025年均选择在泰国拍摄，并且两部剧集共享同一位演员Tayme Thapthimthong。

Tayme Thapthimthong在《异形：地球》中饰演搜救队成员Anant，但他在剧集早期就成为了新型蜱虫状外星生物的牺牲品，被吸干血液致死，为该系列增添了一个新的恐怖生物。

Thapthimthong的死亡经历使他成为“异形”系列中遭遇壮烈死亡的演员之一，与约翰·赫特（John Hurt）和伊莎贝拉·梅塞德（Isabela Merced）等演员并列。

文章还提出一个有趣的设想，即《白莲花》中的角色，如Victoria Ratliff，如果置于“异形”宇宙中，将如何应对外星威胁，并幽默地设想了她引用雷普利经典台词的场景。

The White Lotus Season 3 isn't the only major show of 2025 to film in Thailand. Noah Hawley's Alien prequel Alien: Earth shot there as well, with the series taking place in a futuristic version of the country, now called New Siam.

That's not the only overlap the two series share, though! They also share a star, as a White Lotus Season 3 actor pops up in Alien: Earth.

In Alien: Earth's very first episode, Tayme Thapthimthong, who played Gaitok the security guard on the third season of The White Lotus, makes a brief but memorable appearance. He plays Anant, a member of the search and rescue team that's sent to help survivors of the USCSS Maginot's crash in Prodigy City.

Tragically for Anant, this is an Alien project, and that means that most of the people who step foot in that crashed spaceship won't be stepping back out. They'll be fodder for the Xenomorph that's now running rampant in the wreckage — or for the four new alien species that were also part of the Maginot's cargo.

That's the fate that befalls Anant, who's one of the first victims of a gnarly new tick-like alien. It burrows into his flesh and sucks him dry, becoming a distended blood balloon in the process. What a spectacular entrance to the franchise for this new beastie!

While Thapthimthong won't be returning to Alien: Earth — losing all your blood will do that to you! — he does get to join the ranks of other actors who have died spectacular deaths at the hands of the franchise's horrifying extraterrestrials. Those ranks include Alien's John Hurt, the original chestburster victim, and Alien: Romulus' Isabela Merced, who birthed and then fell prey to a nightmarish Xenomorph/human hybrid.

Now that Alien: Earth has unknowingly opened the floodgates to a White Lotus crossover, who's another character from the show you'd want to pit against Alien: Earth's alien foes? The obvious answer, in my mind, is Parker Posey's Victoria Ratliff. Can I imagine Victoria embracing her inner Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)? Not really, but I'd still love to hear her Southern drawl take on Ripley's most quotable line, "Get away from her, you bitch."

New episodes of Alien: Earth premiere Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX.