Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Did Sam Nivola Almost Turn Down the Role of Lochlan Ratliff on White Lotus Because of His Scandalous Storyline?

Did Sam Nivola...who played Lochlan on White Lotus...almost turn down the role...when he learned about his storyline with Patrick Schwarzenegger?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Getting cast on The White Lotus is a life changing role,
even for established actors like Jennifer Coolidge and Walton Goggins,
who reached new heights with their careers thanks to the exposure.
But for an unknown actor like Sam Nivola, who played
Lachland Ratliff on season three, it's obviously an even bigger leap,
and he admits to The Hollywood Reporter that that moved
to the big leagues has been daunting, saying it's actually
made all my casting processes a bit harder because now
I'm in a different bracket of projects that I'm going

(00:25):
up for the highest profile things of the year. Now
I'm in competition with all the greatest and most successful
popular actors of my age group, and it's been intimidating,
but it's exciting as an actor. In someone who wants
to be a director, the most important thing is to
do the work with the best directors, and I've already
had some opportunities to do that. That's Sam Nevola there
from White Lotus. You can catch season three on HBO Max.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
That's direct from Hollywood.