Parker Posey is winning rave reviews playing Victoria Ratliff in the latest season of “The White Lotus.” The role was a long time coming.

Last week, actor Parker Posey had TODAY’s Craig Melvin in giggles when she practiced her “White Lotus” character’s Southern drawl in a clip that since went viral. Now this week, her co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger got in on the joke.

Those that are obsessed with Parker Posey's Southern accent, and those that hate it. To play the lorazepam-dependent southern matriarch, Victoria Ratliff, Parker put on a thick North Carolinian accent that is both mesmerizing and perplexing,

Parker Posey has said the cast of The White Lotus were “always going to hospital “ in Thailand. The actor, who plays Victoria Ratliff on the hit series, told The Sunday Times Style magazine that she fell ill after eating some dodgy fish, which also left her co-star, Sam Nivola, 21, poorly.

In a new interview about the show with The Times, Parker described the process of making The White Lotus season three as an “endurance test” – thanks, mainly, to the high temperatures, as well as the snakes and critters the actors would occasionally come face-to-face with.

No one has ever said that there is anything unique about a couple of vowels in Durham,” says Walt Wolfram, a North Carolina linguist.

White Lotus star Parker Posey said landing her role was no easy feat. In fact, it took almost two decades for creator Mike White to write something for her.

While talking about his Season 3 of “White Lotus” on TODAY, actor Patrick Schwarzenegger does an impression of his on-screen mom Parker Posey’s southern accent. “It’s just out of control what she’s capable of doing,