Haley Lu Richardson Just Wants to Dance

Haley Lu Richardson, best known for playing Gen Z posterchild Portia in The White Lotus season 2, has been angling to dance in a musical for at least 12 years. I ve been putting this out into the universe since I was 16. That s my biggest dream, for sure, Richardson tells us. (Shes currently talking to people about it, she adds. There are ideas That desire isnt just a throwback to Richardsons days as a dancer before she transitioned to actingits an extension of how she still approaches performing. The thing I love about acting the most is the thing I love about dancing the most. Its this thing that comes from your soul; its just such a vulnerable, abandoned thing, she says. The first time I really felt like I was acting was actually through dance. Now when I think about, what is my acting process It is such an internal thing. Its in my body, its listening to music. On this episode of In the Envelope: The Actors Podcast, Richardson makes a few more