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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? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Getting cast on The White Lotus is a life changing role,
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  Speaker 2: even for established actors like Jennifer Coolidge and Walton Goggins,
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  Speaker 2: who reached new heights with their careers thanks to the exposure.
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  Speaker 2: But for an unknown actor like Sam Nivola, who played
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  Speaker 2: Lachland Ratliff on season three, it's obviously an even bigger leap,
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  Speaker 2: and he admits to The Hollywood Reporter that that moved
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  Speaker 2: to the big leagues has been daunting, saying it's actually
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  Speaker 2: made all my casting processes a bit harder because now
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a different bracket of projects that I'm going
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  Speaker 2: up for the highest profile things of the year. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm in competition with all the greatest and most successful
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  Speaker 2: popular actors of my age group, and it's been intimidating,
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  Speaker 2: but it's exciting as an actor. In someone who wants
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  Speaker 2: to be a director, the most important thing is to
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  Speaker 2: do the work with the best directors, and I've already
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  Speaker 2: had some opportunities to do that. That's Sam Nevola there
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  Speaker 2: from White Lotus. You can catch season three on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.