I must know how Helena Bonham Carter fled the French Riviera. Was it by private jet? Emergency dinghy? Did she take one look at the scripts for the new, Cannes-set season of The White Lotus and dive headfirst into the ocean, outcome be damned? The news that the esteemed British star had exited the blockbuster fancy-pants soap opera days into filming is too juicy for words – tales of drama behind the scenes of The White Lotus are typically drip-fed while the show is actually on the air (Fallings-out! Alleged affairs! Prosthetic penises!), not before . We don’t even have a date yet for when the show will be back on screen. This is going to be a long few months, isn’t it?…