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'White Lotus' Creator Mike White Made the Show Because of Competing on 'Amazing Race' · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Season to a White
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Speaker 1: Lotus sees the ensemble resort show mix up the cast
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Speaker 1: and location, jumping from Hawaii to Sicily. It's pretty clear
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Speaker 1: that it's writer director Mike White has a thing for travel.
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Speaker 1: He even finished runner up on Amazing Race four teen,
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Speaker 1: competing alongside his dad, and he now films all of
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Speaker 1: White Lotus on location, which he had missed with The
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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. Was partially because he's chasing that same
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Speaker 1: rush that Amazing Race gave him. He says, making movies
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Speaker 1: is slow and laborious, and you're often on a sound stage.
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Speaker 1: Over the years, I've wondered, how do I go somewhere
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Speaker 1: new every year and have a new adventure. Basically, White
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Speaker 1: Lotus is the closest I can get to that kind
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Speaker 1: of adrenaline. Filming is always brutal, but doing in Sicily
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Speaker 1: was a very cool experience. You forget the pain. You
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Speaker 1: remember the beauty. White Lotus now on HBO Max that's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.