Alexandra Daddario has slammed suggestions that she is a ‘bad actress’ and pointed out that she wouldn’t have earned an Emmy nomination for her role in ‘The White Lotus’ if she was.

Asked to name the most outrageous rumor she has heard about herself, Alexandra told Elle magazine: ‘That I’m bad actress.

‘I’m not a bad actress. I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. OK?’

She continued: ‘Directing and the writing is everything. Sometimes I’m lit poorly, but I’m not a bad actress. I got an Emmy nomination. How do you think I did that?’

Alexandra also revealed that there have been a lot of acting roles that she regrets and explained that an independent film dogged by infighting was her worst project.

The Mayfair Witches star said: ‘I have a lot of acting gigs I regret doing. This is a hard one, but I’ll be vague.

Alexandra Daddario has slammed suggestions that she is a ‘bad actress’ and pointed out that she wouldn’t have earned an Emmy nomination for her role in The White Lotus if she was; Alexandra seen in February 2025

‘With all due respect to everyone who worked hard and who I worked with, there was an independent film that I sH๏τ that was a disaster. A lot of infighting, producers walking off set, just chaos.

‘I don’t want to say the name though, because you can’t, but I hated working on that. The movie doesn’t have to be good, but you know, fighting is not something that I’m into.’

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Daddario played journalist Rachel Patton in the first season of The White Lotus and previously explained that the show’s creator Mike White has an idea for Rachel and her husband Shane (Jake Lucy) to return for a cameo in the future on the HBO series.

She said: ‘Shane and I would be on a boat, talking about other people, annoying everyone around us. Mike’s brain is always working. That’s the whole thing with his commentary on the world around him: He’s always observing.’

Daddario gave birth to her first child on Halloween, which was a coincidence considering she plays a witch on Mayfair Witches.

She noted that on Instagram, writing, ‘I play a witch on TV and gave birth on Halloween, but nothing could have prepared me for the magic, and scares, of postpartum,’ her caption began.

She was referring to her role as Dr. Rowan Fielding on the AMC supernatural drama which is based on Ann Rice’s series of novels.

‘THIS is what it looks like for me 6 days after giving birth to my magical little baby. Women’s bodies are amazing and I’ve never felt more proud of mine,’ she said in wonder.

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Alexandra starred in the first season of HBO’s The White Lotus

‘I’m not a bad actress. I’ve just done some projects that don’t showcase me in the way that I should be showcased. OK?’ she told Elle magazine; Alexandra seen in January 2025

‘So much love to all the new moms out there leaning into their new powers (and new undies)!

The San Andreas actor welcomed her baby with her husband Andrew Form, 52.

She and the film producer tied the knot in 2022. He was previously married to actress Jordana Brewster from 2007 to 2021.

Form and Brewster share two sons, Julian, 11, and Rowan, eight.

Alexandra did not publicly share her pregnancy until July, when she was more than six months along.

She hid her baby bump underneath baggy clothes and posted carefully cropped pH๏τos on social media, she revealed in a Vogue interview.

In the interview she revealed she had been pregnant before but lost it and was ‘overjoyed’ to be so far along in her second pregnancy.

‘It’s long and complicated, so I don’t want to be too specific,’ she continued. ‘Those kinds of losses and trauma are very hard to explain unless you’ve been through them. 

‘I really relate to all the women who have been through those kinds of things in a way that I didn’t understand fully before. It’s very, very painful.’

Alexandra recently became a mom and shared her first pH๏τo with her newborn baby on Instagram in November

It is the first child for Alexandra and her husband Andrew Form; the couple pictured in 2022

At 55, Form, is 17 years older than Alexandra and they first met by chance in Manhattan in 2020 while he was still married to his first wife Jordana Brewster, who promptly filed for divorce in July 2020.

‘He was also on a walk, and we pᴀssed each other downtown,’ Daddario recalled to Vogue in 2022.

‘He turned back and said, ‘Hi,’ just as I was turning around to glance back at him. I laughed and said, ‘Hi,’ and then we both laughed about how we were the only two people on what is normally an incredibly busy street.

‘He asked if he could take me to dinner. I said okay against my better judgment. Nowadays, you’re supposed to meet people on dating apps!’