The actor’s performance as the deceptively cynical, perennially zen housewife was the standout of the dark comedy’s second season
where Daphne is a milder side character or a complement to Plaza’s Harper instead of the most intriguing of the bunch. Instead, Fahy performs Daphne as both seemingly open and guileless and the most opaque of all the characters. She’s a true player of the power games with the stealthiest costume, occasionally glimpsing a jagged edge she then conceals with a fleeting acknowledgment.on social media.
Most of the characters on The White Lotus contain hidden depths; White has a perennial fascination with the emotional loyalties or undercurrents that lead to surprising behavior. Daphne is, on the script level, a complex character with ambiguous motivations – she rents a villa without telling her husband, implicitly admits to an affair with her trainer and gives dubious marriage advice to both Ethan and Harper.