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New York Post
15-07-2025
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- New York Post
‘White Lotus' ‘incest scene' actors Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola snubbed by Emmys 2025 — and more
Snubs galore. The TV Academy revealed the 2025 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, with the most nods going to 'Severance,' 'The Penguin, 'The White Lotus' and 'The Studio.' Adam Scott, Kristen Bell, Jean Smart, Colin Farrell, Pedro Pascal, Kathy Bates, Noah Wyle, and Kathryn Hahn are among the nominated actors. But a number of other performers were snubbed from the nominations list, including 'The White Lotus' stars Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola, who made headlines for their turns as the incestuous Ratliff brothers. 10 Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola in 'The White Lotus.' Fabio Lovino/HBO Schwarzenegger, 31, was predicted to score a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series leading up to the reveal on Tuesday, but both he and Nivola, 21, were shut out of the category. Their co-stars Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs and Sam Rockwell were all nominated in the supporting actor drama series category, alongside three 'Severance' stars and James Marsden for 'Paradise.' 10 Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger in 'The White Lotus.' Fabio Lovino/HBO 10 Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola during an incest scene in 'The White Lotus' Season 3. HBO Ironically, Schwarzenegger and Nivola are both nepo babies. Schwarzenegger is the son of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger, while Nivola's parents are Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola. Schwarzenegger and Nivola's on-screen sister Sarah Catherine Hook, who played Piper Ratliff, was snubbed as well. 'The White Lotus' ladies Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan also missed out on nominations, but their bestie Carrie Coon scored a nod in the supporting actress drama series category with co-stars Parker Posey, Aimee Lou Wood and Natasha Rothwell. 10 Sam Nivola Sarah Catherine Hook, and Patrick Schwarzenegger in 'The White Lotus.' AP Despite the multiple snubs, the third season of the HBO hit still racked up 23 nominations. In the lead actor drama category, Jon Hamm and Diego Luna both missed out on nominations for their respective roles in Apple TV+'s 'Your Friends and Neighbors' and Disney+'s 'Andor.' In fact, 'Andor' only got one acting nomination, and it was for guest star Forest Whitaker. But the 'Star Wars' series did get in for Outstanding Drama Series with seven other shows. 10 Jon Hamm in 'Your Friends and Neighbors.' ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection 10 Diego Luna in 'Andor.' ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection 'Your Friends and Neighbors,' 'Squid Game,' '1923' 'House of the Dragon' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' all missed out in Outstanding Drama Series. Other drama snubs include Elisabeth Moss for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Lee Jung-jae for 'Squid Game,' Jack Lowden for 'Slow Horses,' Dichen Lachman for 'Severance,' Helen Mirren for '1923,' Jacob Anderson for 'Interview With the Vampire' and Allison Janney for 'The Diplomat.' 10 Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Disney On the comedy side, 'Only Murders in the Building' stars Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Meryl Streep were ignored by Emmy voters this go around, despite all landing noms last year for Season 3. However, their co-star Martin Short got his fourth-straight acting nomination for the Hulu project. 10 Steve Martin and Selena Gomez in 'Only Murders in the Building.' ©Hulu/Courtesy Everett Collection 10 Meryl Streep in 'Only Murders in the Building.' ©Hulu/Courtesy Everett Collection 'Hacks' scene stealers Paul W. Downs and Meg Stalter, 'Abbott Elementary' favorite Tyler James Williams, and 'Poker Face' lead Natasha Lyonne were also left off the nominations list. In the limited categories, 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' star Nicholas Alexander Chavez failed to join his on-screen brother Cooper Koch and on-screen parents Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as a nominee. 10 Meg Stalter, Paul W. Downs in 'Hacks.' Courtesy of Max Renée Zellweger got shutout in Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,' though the Peacock film did get recognized in the Outstanding Television Movie category. The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Attending the Dior Men Show With Sam Nivola
'The White Lotus' breakout star Sam Nivola was among the guests invited to be on hand for Jonathan Anderson's much-anticipated Dior Men runway debut. ' It's been really cool getting to sort of joyride in the fashion world,' says Nivola on Friday from Paris, shortly after the show. 'I don't know very much about fashion or about fashion history. I'm learning so much, so quickly; it's a whole new art form.' More from WWD Sabrina Carpenter Goes Classic in Pleated Skirt and Satin Peep-toe Louboutin Pumps Dior Homme's Spring 2026 Show Jonathan Anderson's Dior Debut Draws Daniel Craig, Robert Pattinson, TXT and Rihanna Summer 2025 Fashion: City Escape The actor and the designer have become 'fast friends,' and Nivola lavished praise upon the collection. 'I'm so proud and impressed, because it's a momentous thing. This is a big deal. And he did such a good job, and the clothes are amazing. They're just gorgeous and beautiful and everyone looks amazing in them.' Speaking of the clothes, Nivola attended the show dressed in a white cable knit sweater embroidered with pink tulips, white cargo shorts, a pearl necklace with floral charms and pink sunglasses and suede sneakers. ' I love classic clothes,' said Nivola, describing the collection as an 'amazing renaissance of the brand.' 'Jonathan's style matches mine really perfectly, because it's timeless. It's clothes that look beautiful, and an homage to the '60s and to this old world of Dior that values elegance and class, over making a statement about nothing.' Ahead of the show, Dior released a short editorial video clip starring Nivola. In it, the actor lounges in a sunny field of wildflowers at Versailles, dandelion in hand, outfitted in a Dior-embroidered sweater and accessories. ' We were shooting in The Queen's Hamlet — Marie Antoinette's Hamlet — within Versailles, which is this little fake town that she had built because she felt like the palace was too grand, and she wanted to live like a normal person,' said Nivola, who filmed the clip around a month ago. 'It was gorgeous, and totally matched [Anderson's] vibe and the vibe of the clothes.' The actor was making the most of his quick trip to Paris, visiting a museum and going out to dinner around show duties. 'Sometimes when you travel to a place for a day or two for work, it's a real pain … and you just don't wanna do anything and you just wanna stay in your room — especially when the hotel is as nice as the one they put me in,' said Nivola, adding that he was currently on his hotel balcony taking in views of the Eiffel Tower. 'Something about Paris makes you really want go out and explore, even when you're jet-lagged beyond belief and just want to take a Tylenol PM.' The morning after the Dior show, Nivola was headed to the Glastonbury Festival to meet up with his girlfriend, Iris Apatow, to see some of their friends perform at the music festival. ' I'm half English, but I've never been to Glastonbury, so that's gonna be a blast,' he said. Afterward, it was back to summer in New York. 'I'm gonna try and enjoy a little break, because I've been working a lot the past few years,' said Nivola. 'I pay a lot of rent in New York, and I wanna be in my apartment for more than a week at a time. So I'll enjoy the stifling heat for a little while, and then hopefully go to work sometime in the fall.' Launch Gallery: Sam Nivola Getting Ready for the Dior Men Summer 2026 Show Best of WWD A Look Back at BET Awards Best Dressed Red Carpet Stars: Tyla, Queen Latifah and More [PHOTOS] A Look Back at the Tony Awards Best Dressed Red Carpet Stars: Liza Minnelli, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Lopez and More [PHOTOS] Maria Grazia Chiuri's Dior Through the Years: Runway, Celebrities and More [PHOTOS]
Yahoo
21-06-2025
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Jason Isaacs Gave a Definite Answer to His Rumored Feud With 'White Lotus' Co-Star Parker Posey
Before the season 3 finale of The White Lotus even aired, feud rumors started to swirl about the stars of the show. Among the fan theories, for example, is that Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey, who played married couple Timothy and Victoria Ratliff in the series, didn't exactly get along. Now, he's shining some light on their dynamic. In a new interview with Vulture, Isaacs answered a question White Lotus fans have been asking themselves all along: Why has he seemed closer to his onscreen kids (Patrick Schwarznegger, Sarah Catherine Cook and Sam Nivola) than to his onscreen wife? More from SheKnows Leslie Bibb Set the Record Straight on Why She Hasn't Married Sam Rockwell After 18 Years Together 'She's Parker Posey,' Isaacs said when asked about what it was like working with her. 'She's everything you think she would be.' When pressed on the matter, Isaacs couldn't avoid hinting at some tension. 'She was playing someone out of her head, so she was given license to be bonkers,' he said. 'And then I'm playing someone out of my head.' 'So I didn't really look at her or talk to her or listen to her because I'm so much in my own tunnel,' he revealed. 'So, I can't really tell you what it's like to interact with her too much.' So while Isaacs didn't exactly confirm that he and Posey are feuding, he's finally admitted that they didn't get along. Whether that was because of their 'method acting' or their own personalities, however, it seems we'll never know. Previously, Isaacs discussed on-set drama in an April 9 episode of The Happy Hour on SiriusXM's TODAY Show Radio. Isaacs stated that while filming the show on location in Thailand, the cast and crew 'were in a little pressure cooker together.' 'Like anywhere you go for the summer, there's friendships, there's romances, there's arguments, there's cliques that form and break and reform and stuff like that,' he explained. Isaacs added that he's seen the rumors about who had issues on set, saying, 'I'm careful. I'm not stupid. I look at the Internet. I only read every single word written about The White Lotus and about everybody in it.' But assured fans that the 'amateur Sherlock Holmes' trying to figure out which cast members might be feuding don't have 'the slightest clue what they're talking about.' 'People who think they're onto something, and it then gets magnified because of a thousand other people. Nobody has any clue,' he said. Hopefully he'll keep the clues coming!Best of SheKnows 17 Movies & TV Shows That Educate About the History of American Slavery All of Chris Martin's Confirmed & Rumored Relationships Over the Years 13 Times Meghan Markle Reminded Us So Much of Princess Diana
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21-06-2025
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Sam Nivola Would Never Turn Down an Opportunity to Work With Mike White
Sam Nivola had the time of his life working with Mike White on The White Lotus. The third season of the lush drama was the largest project the 21-year old actor has ever worked on, and it's an experience he won't ever forget, partly thanks to the incredible list of talent and creatives he had the opportunity to work alongside. Before traveling to Thailand to portray youngest Ratliff sibling Lochlan, Nivola landed parts in the Bradley Cooper-starring Maestro and Netflix's The Perfect Couple, which carries a similar murderous vibe, though White Lotus was his first standout role as an actor. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Awards Chatter' Live Pod: Sam Rockwell on That 'White Lotus' Monologue, 'Three Billboards' Award Season and Upcoming Martin McDonagh Reunion 'Wild Horse Nine' 'The White Lotus' DP Breaks Down His Favorite Shot of Season 3 'Dark Winds' Star Zahn McClarnon: "I've Learned More in the Last Four Seasons Than in 30 Years" There's no denying that Nivola's career has swelled since The White Lotus, and he thanks White (who he says he would 'jump off the Empire State Building for') and his co-stars (all 'legends') for the lessons he was able to learn so early on in his career. As Emmys voting kicked off last Friday, Nivola jumped on the phone with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss the advice a White Lotus season two alum gave him before heading to Thailand, why working with White was (and always will be) the best and if he ever thought about dropping out of the show after reading the scandalous scripts. *** Looking back, what did you think that your experience and its impact would be, and how did that compare to the reality of what came from the show? Well, they were very different. It's funny, Jason Isaacs, who obviously played my father, is such a contrarian. He loves to say the opposite of whatever everyone's thinking, so he was very much a proponent of always setting your expectations below. The first two seasons were massive hits, but Jennifer Coolidge was a real reason behind that and she's not in this one, blah blah blah and all this stuff. I think probably people in the second season were feeling that too. It's a whole different cast every time and it's not as easy to count on it being a mega hit every time. But also, none of us really were thinking much about that. Not to put us all on a pedestal, but we were really just having tons of fun, trying to enjoy the experience and enjoy getting to work with such amazing writing and director in Mike [White]. The reaction of the show has been unfathomably large, and it has totally changed my life in a way that I don't think I could have ever expected. One thing that David Bernad said when did the cover story was that when the scripts were being sent to you and Patrick [Schwarzenegger], he and Mike were both panicked about you guys potentially dropping out. Were you aware of their anxiety around this issue, and do you think that was justified? No way. In what world would I ever drop out of The White Lotus! No fucking way, no! I mean, it's the juiciest story, and we're also actors. It's not like I actually had to fucking have sex with my brother. I think it was a great and an exciting opportunity to do something that sort of has never been done on TV, in the way that Mike did it. I was stoked when I read the script and I would never, even in a million years, imagine thinking of dropping out of something made by Mike and Dave. They're just the best. As we know, Mike doesn't supply a lot of backstory for his characters, and he's also not really precious about what his actors bring to their parts. So for you, what pieces of Lochlan and his backstory did you bring to the character? I'm 21, I'm still sort of figuring out my method. It was such a lucky experience getting to work with this ensemble because all of these seasoned actors have very different ways of going about performing, and everyone has a different method. So I was able to learn, take bits and pieces from everyone else's method. I don't generally do a lot of background work on my character. When I'm preparing for a role, I really just focus on the script, what's in the scene and what's happening to the character in the present moment, and how to best prepare myself to react naturally in that moment. So I didn't do a lot of world building around my character. But I did make some assumptions, like the fact that I assumed that we [Ratliff kids] had spent a lot of time with babysitters, that we were dealing with a lot of money, and that mom was probably always pulled out, and dad was probably always working. I assumed a certain disconnect between us and the parents, that we were not as close with them as the average group of kids is with their parents. I assumed certain things about how we were brought up, just based on the amount of money that we have, which obviously sets us apart from the average family. Your TV sister, Sarah Catherine [Hook], has talked about an important sex scene that was cut. Leslie Bibb is still sad about her dream sequence on the cutting room floor. What scene that you filmed do you miss the most from the scraps pile? I feel quite lucky in that I think lots of my biggest scenes were pretty important to the development of the story and the progression of the plot, so I didn't have that much cut. I don't think I had any big scenes [cut] in their entirety. They trimmed scenes that I was in where they would cut unnecessary lines from the middle of the scene, which is something I'm not that used to seeing, but it makes sense because we shot so much [and] they were so pressed for time that buying a few seconds here and there is totally worthwhile. The scene when me and Sarah Catherine are on the beach talking, I can't remember whether we're on our way to the temple or on our way back, there was a whole middle section that they cut out where she basically says, 'I don't think you should stay at the temple. I think we should not spend as much time together, because the whole vibe of our family is like our mom has taught us — that everyone is out to get us and we just have to be insular and rely on each other, and it's just super incestuous, you know what I mean?' And she uses that word [incestuous] as a sort of general meaning, like we spend too much time with each other, and I immediately assume that Patrick['s Saxon] told her about what happened on the boat, and I'm like, 'Oh, fuck, did he tell you?' And she's like, 'What? What do you mean?' I'm like, 'Oh, I don't know, what do you mean?' (Laughs) It's a total misunderstanding where I think she knows what happened, but that's the only one that I can think of that got cut. That's so interesting. Yeah, but I think it was smart to cut it because it sort of is too clarifying. It's not mysterious enough for the circumstance. You spent six-plus months with some amazing vets on set, be that Parker [Posey] or Walton [Goggins] or Jason, etc. What morals of wisdom and advice did you pick up from them while working on this show along the way? I learned very different things from all of those legends, some of which were in direct opposition with each other. Everyone has such different ways of doing it, and that's part of what's so amazing about acting to me. I'm a college dropout, [and] this methodology of acting is something that, of course, can be taught in drama schools, but a lot of the time it is not taught. A lot of the time actors are sort of putting together these pieces of how we like to do our job over the course of our careers, and they become very personalized and unique. Jason was very fly by the seat of [his] pants. He would do all the work on the character beforehand, like a month before we started shooting. He got his accent down, he came up with a good backstory and figured it all out, and then didn't look at the script until the morning we would shoot every scene. He would memorize his lines in the makeup chair so that he was prepared, but his performance was spontaneous; whereas Parker [Posey] was much more rehearsed. Every time I'd see her at the pool, she had her binder out and was going through every line and rehearsing different ways to say specific lines. Walton always told me to trust yourself and have faith in yourself and confidence; Patrick and Sarah Catherine taught me things. I think I was the youngest person on that set and it was a really amazing opportunity to learn from just about everyone there [who] has more experience than me in this industry. There's going to be a fourth season of . I'm curious what your advice would be for the next batch of actors, and is there anything that you now know that you wish you had known when you were starting out getting ready to shoot the show? I'd say get your mental health in order, because it is tough being that far away from home for that long. That has no bearing on the job itself, which is the most fun thing in the world. But inevitably, when you're away from home for that long, there are certain challenges. In terms of the actual work, I would say you need no advice. I met with Adam DiMarco, who played a very parallel role to mine in the second season, before I went away to shoot. I was like, 'Do you have any advice? Like, what's Mike like? What's his annoying thing and how do you work around it?' Because every director has one. And he was like, 'There is nothing, he's just great.' I was like, 'Okay, dude. There's no cameras rolling, no one's listening, tell me what's actually wrong with him because there's something wrong with everyone.' He was like, 'No, I swear to God, there's nothing wrong with him.' I thought he was just a kiss ass (Laughs), there's gotta be bullshit. And it turned out he was absolutely right, there is nothing wrong with Mike. He's the most generous, amazing leader of a crew, a set and a story, and whoever is lucky enough to get these parts in the next season, just soak it in and enjoy it. Because even at this young age, I can say I think it's unlikely that you'll ever find someone as amazing as him again. How are the incoming calls and scripts different on the other side of ? I sort of thought I would just be getting parts left and right, which I am in smaller indie movies — if they ever get funding, I'm really stoked about them — but it's actually made all my casting processes a bit harder, because now I'm sort of in a different bracket of projects that I'm going up for where they're all the highest profile, NDA things of the year. So now I'm in competition with all of the greatest and most successful, popular actors of my age group, and it's been intimidating and a sort of bigger thing than it used to be just sending out tapes for these really important directors and casting directors. But it's exciting. As an actor and someone who wants to be a director, the most important thing is to work with the best directors, and I've had some interesting opportunities to do that already in my career. And the fact that every job I do leads to more opportunities to do that is so lucky and awesome. You just said you want to pursue directing, your father [Alessandro Nivola] has been nominated for a Tony and your mom [Emily Mortimer] is also a great screenwriter, do you have any aspirations in either of those directions, or are you set on acting and then directing one day? I totally do. Since The White Lotus came out, I've not been acting a lot. As Jason Isaacs said, I'm no longer an actor, I'm a professional White Lotus promoter. I've been flying around the world so much with no Wifi and just my laptop, so [I've] been doing lots of writing. I have a production company with my friends called Cold Worm Productions and we have a pretty big slate right now. We just got a rough assembly cut back of a feature that we produced in Wales, like micro-budget indie features, but it's so fun, and I enjoy it so much. I think it's really important to do things with your friends and stay creative on a small scale level. Of course, I love acting in these big things, it's the best opportunity to work with the most talented people. But I also think it's easy for money to corrupt creativity, obviously, and it's 'Mo Money, Mo Problems' (laughs). So working on tiny budgets, producing these indie features where everyone's sleeping on the floor of an Airbnb and I'm the producer, but I'm also driving people around and picking up lunch for people, it's a really fulfilling, creative experience. Do you have any other projects to tease, or do you have a dream role that you'd like to take on at some point? I just shot an indie comedy directed by the great legend Bobby Farrelly, so keep an eye out for that. And I did a pilot a while back before The White Lotus came out that I think I'm going to hear in the next little while whether or not that gets picked up, in which case I would go see that soon. A dream role? I don't know. I think that it would be impossible for me to describe a dream role because the best roles are the ones that are original and haven't been written yet. At the time, Travis Bickle [in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver] was obviously a very new kind of character, and I'd love to play a new kind of character. The comedy that you mentioned is , and that filmed in North Carolina, correct?Yep! Was that your first time visiting the state, and do you think that your Ratliff family nailed the North Carolina accent after spending time shooting there? I kind of think we did! Everyone said that we kids don't have any accents, but we did work with a dialogue coach and changed very subtle vowels, because apparently, from the people I met when I was there, the younger generation are totally losing their accents because of the globalization of the internet and going to colleges where you travel around, you tend to soften your accent. But it was my first time, and I love North Carolina. It was so relaxing because I was there while the show was coming out, and whenever I would come to New York, like when I came to do the Hollywood Reporter shoot with you guys, I came for a weekend while I was in the middle of the shoot in North Carolina, and it was just mayhem. [I was] getting stopped everywhere I went, and it was impossible to go grab a beer without being swarmed, and in North Carolina, no one gave a shit, which was awesome. It was so funny, because the family is from North Carolina, I was expecting people to really give a shit (Laughs). Lochlan was choosing between Duke or Chapel Hill. Obviously, there's this looming financial stress on the Ratliffs, but if he ends up going to college, where do you think he ended up choosing to go? I think, if anything, he probably doesn't go to college. But I don't know, the theme with the family is very much, at least with Piper, trying to be something you're not, trying to break free from the mold of the family and being unsuccessful and unable to do so. So if that's the mold, then I think I probably go to Duke and fall after my father in a very sort of patriarchal sense. But I like to think that what he actually needs is to either not go to college or take a gap year and go traveling by himself, without his family, importantly (Laughs), and go sort of find himself. Both of your parents [Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola] are actors, so what is the greatest thing that you've learned from them, and is there anything that they taught you or advised you not to do in your career as an actor? Advice is a complicated thing as an actor because everyone has their own method and it's very specific. Whenever everyone is playing different characters from different time periods, it's very hard to give generalized advice about what it is to be an actor that is so situational and specific to exactly the character that you're playing. We don't talk, my parents and I, that much about the creative side of it, because I think it's important to find your own way. But they give me so much advice about the technical side of the business, like how to not get fucked on your contract, what to ask for and how to keep yourself happy and sane when you're on a big, long press tour that takes you around the world. And how to keep a level head, how to stay happy and feel in your body, and I've learned a lot from them — and about producing, because they also produce. You know, just the technicalities of having read a good log line, what to put in a pitch deck, formatting, all that shit has been incredibly helpful. Patrick also told that he's heard rumors of an all-star season, and . Have you heard those rumors, and would you be open to potentially returning for an all-star season? Of course I would. I would jump off the Empire State Building for Mike White (Laughs), I would do just about anything. I would adore to work with him again in whatever capacity. I mean, we would all, including Mike, joke about him doing an all-star season when we were in Thailand, but I could sort of never tell whether he was joking or he was serious, so, who knows? The thing is that the all-star season would have to, I imagine, be the last season. I can't tell when the last season's going to be right now, because the show is such a hit and Mike is so happy making it. I don't know when they would ever decide to stop, but we'll see, and if that phone rings with his name on it, I'm picking up 10 times out of 10. Looking back on your entire experience, what is the biggest thing you learned from playing Lochlan? I think the biggest thing that I learned was that you have to soak it in. That's sort of my only regret from the shoot is that, not just me, but I was talking to Parker and Sarah Catherine, and we were just saying we were all so nervous going into it, and we shouldn't have been, because Mike is so lovely and puts everyone at ease. But, it's a big show, it's a big deal, and for me, it's a big deal because I've never been in anything so big before with so many eyes on it. And even for someone like Parker Posey, who's a legend in our field, it's intense and it's nerve wracking to be a part of something that's already so beloved, and [to] be a new part of something that people are going to judge and have opinions on. I think at times, I was too nervous to really sit back and be like, you know what? I'm in fucking Thailand, at a five-star luxury resort with these people that are now my best friends in the world, and we're all doing this job that I've wanted to do since I was little, acting at the highest level with some of the most accomplished creatives in our field. That is something that I wish I had savored more. And I did, but there were a lot of things on our mind on any given day. *** The White Lotus season three is streaming on HBO Max. Head here for all of THR's season three interviews and coverage, including our uncensored oral history with White and the cast. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
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16-06-2025
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Jason Isaacs Says ‘White Lotus' Equal Pay Earned Each Actor $40,000 an Episode: ‘Do I Mind That I Wasn't Paid More Than' Younger Co-Stars? ‘I Never Work for Money'
Jason Isaacs confirmed in a new interview with Vulture that every cast member on 'The White Lotus' Season 3 made $40,000 an episode, bringing their total pay for the series to around $320,000 each. Isaacs noted that sum is actually 'a very low price' for such a hugely successful television series. 'I didn't know that was public knowledge. That's absolutely true,' Isaacs said. 'Generally actors don't talk about pay in public because it's ridiculously disproportionate to what we do — putting on makeup and funny voices — and just upsets the public. But compared to what people normally get paid for big television shows, that's a very low price. But the fact is, we would have paid to be in it. We probably would have given a body part.' More from Variety Sam Rockwell on Choosing His 'White Lotus' Leopard Underwear and Why 'Sinners' Made Him Believe Hollywood Will Survive 'The White Lotus' Creator Mike White and Team Break Down the Finale's Deadly Piña Colada Scenes - and Why Season 3 Made Him Feel Like a 'Head Case' Jason Isaacs Champions Tom Felton Playing Draco Malfoy Again, Gives His Blessing to New Lucius Malfoy Actor Johnny Flynn: 'I Can't Wait to See What He Comes Up With' 'The White Lotus' cast being paid equally meant that acting veterans such as Isaacs and Parker Posey made the same as relative newcomers to the industry like Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola. Isaacs politely scoffed when asked if he thought that was fair or not. 'Do I mind that I wasn't paid more than other people? I never work for money,' Isaacs said. 'I've done all right. People will think I have huge stockpiles of money but sadly, what I've done rather immaturely is expand my outgoings to match my incomings and pretty much spent everything I've earned over the years.' Isaacs also used 'The White Lotus' set to impart wisdom on his younger co-stars, mainly how they can't 'over-invest' in the final product because it's completely out of their control. That's for creator Mike White to worry about more than his actors. Isaacs learned that lesson the hard way after playing Captain Hook in 2003's notorious misfire 'Peter Pan.' 'It was a big expensive production with multiple studios. We filmed for 14 months. … The film tanked,' Isaacs said. 'I think it's a masterpiece, but people looked at the poster and went, 'Oh, fuck it. I've seen 'Hook' with Robin Williams, and I've seen the cartoon. Why do I need to see another one?' It was a catastrophe professionally for me, a huge fall from grace. I couldn't get a walk-on role. And I changed my agent and I almost changed my job, frankly, because I didn't think I'd work again. The lowest I've ever been was after 'Peter Pan.' I was really in despair but not as bad as I would have been had I believed any of the bullshit that had been whispered in my ear. I didn't over-invest in the results of it, which is something I tried to counsel the young actors on 'The White Lotus' not to do.' 'The White Lotus' Season 3 is streaming in its entirety on Max. Head over to Vulture's website to read more from Isaacs' latest interview. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
