Michelle Monaghan Dishes on Her Self-Tanning Routine for ‘The White Lotus’ (Unique)

Michelle Monaghan was dedicated to her function in The White Lotus.

At a latest New York Metropolis occasion celebrating her as U Magnificence’s first-ever model ambassador, the actress, 48, shared the methodical magnificence routine she carried out for her character Jaclyn. On season 3 of the hit HBO sequence, Monaghan performs a TV star on a women’ journey at The White Lotus resort in Thailand.

With the intention to preserve Jaclyn’s tropical, effortlessly glam look all through months of taking pictures, the actress self-tanned weekly.

“I dedicated to it each Sunday,” she tells PEOPLE. “So all people’s like, ‘We’ll go right down to the seaside and for a swim.’ And I used to be like, ‘I can not do it.’ As an alternative, I used to be placing on the self-tanner and ready for it to dry for six or seven hours as a result of it was so humid.”

She continues, “And it grew to become this ongoing joke that they only knew. They’re like, ‘Oh, do not hassle asking Michelle. She’s doing her tan.'”

Monaghan provides that the tanning course of helped her to get into character.

“However as soon as I put that tan on after which that blonde hair and I felt like I used to be inhabiting a really particular character,” she explains. “After which she wore a really vivid pink coral-y nail polish that we must do as soon as each week or two.”

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“I beloved being blonde a lot and I used to be nervous as a result of I’m a brunette,” she says her blonde hair transformation on the present. “I knew that [series creator] Mike [White] actually needed me to be blonde. And I used to be like, ‘In fact I will do no matter you need.’ However I used to be apprehensive as a result of I knew that I used to be going to have to return to being brunette for a movie afterwards.”

Like her tan, Monaghan’s blonde locks required rigorous upkeep. So, superstar colorist Tracey Cunningham took a number of journeys to Thailand, the place the season was filmed, to maintain Monaghan’s colour in tip-top form throughout taking pictures.

The White Lotus season 3 additionally stars Aimee Lou Wooden, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jason Isaacs, Leslie Bibb and Walton Goggins, as nicely Natasha Rothwell, who’s reprising her season 1 function as spa supervisor Belinda Lindsey.