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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, Sam Devolan, Patrick Schwarzenegger,
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  Speaker 1: who played the brothers Lachlan and Saxon Ratliffe on season
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  Speaker 1: three of The White Lotus, respectively, had a storyline that
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  Speaker 1: was so scandalous we can't even really allude to what
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  Speaker 1: it entails, but every fan of the show knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we are probably talking about.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it was so shocking that creator Mike White
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  Speaker 2: was genuinely worried that Sam or Patrick would drop out
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  Speaker 2: of the show once they read the scripts. But Sam
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  Speaker 2: tells the Hollywood Reporter he never even considered it, saying,
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  Speaker 2: no way in what world would I ever drop out
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  Speaker 2: of The White Lotus. It's the juiciest story. I'm also actors,
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  Speaker 2: not brothers. It was a great story and an exciting
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to do something that has never been done on TV,
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  Speaker 2: and the way that Mike did it. I was actually
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  Speaker 2: stoked when I read the script, and I would never
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  Speaker 2: even in a million years imagine thinking of dropping out
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  Speaker 2: if something made by Mic at Sam Navola, I'm playing
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  Speaker 2: Lachlan Ratliff on The White Lotus streaming on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.