For her character on the show, Posey told Variety she was inspired by the theatricality of Tennessee Williams plays, specifically Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Take a gander at the plot of the play and you can undoubtedly see the parallels between the play’s conflicts and the Ratliffs’ own potential crumbling, both financially and emotionally.

Posey was labeled “Queen of the Indies” during the 1990s for starring in so many hit indie films, including Dazed and Confused, Suburbia, Party Girl, Waiting for Guffman and K

Violet is the pill-popping matriarch of a wealthy North Carolina family vacationing at the posh resort’s Thailand location with her husband (Jason Isaac) and three children (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook).