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'White Lotus' Almost Cast This Golden Globe Winner in a Key Role in Season 2 · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Van Peters just picked
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  Speaker 1: up a golden glove for his chilling turn as Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Dahmer and the Netflix bio series Dahmer. But if things
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  Speaker 1: had gone a bit differently, Evan would have been sunning
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  Speaker 1: and stressing out on the Italian coast for another hit
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  Speaker 1: show instead, Whiteladus producer David Barnard tells Deadline Evan was
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  Speaker 1: actually cast to play Ethan, the tech millionaire who worries
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  Speaker 1: his wife is cheating on him with his college friend,
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  Speaker 1: a role that ended up going to UK actor Will Sharp.
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  Speaker 1: David says that that was the last part we cast
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  Speaker 1: in the season, and originally it was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: Evan Peters, but for whatever reason scheduling or timing, it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work out. We were really trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to cast that role, so it didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like familiar casting. We were in Rome auditioning Italian actors
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  Speaker 1: and I was jetlag googling at four am and I
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  Speaker 1: came across Will Sharp. I'd never seen him before and
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  Speaker 1: he was just incredible. I looked at his work and
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  Speaker 1: realized he was kind of a chameleon. The producer also
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  Speaker 1: hinted that the rumors Season three will be somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: Asia are probably accurate. White Load is streaming on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.