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.