At the premiere of 'The White Lotus' season three, Sam Nivola shares his reaction with THR on the first time he read the scripts for the show. Plus, he talks about the unique situation of living with his castmates in Thailand.
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00:00Congratulations on this.
00:01Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
00:02What did you think when you first read these scripts?
00:04I mean, I was shocked and taken aback and confused and happy and sad and screaming and crying.
00:11You're so pretty!
00:12Ah! You're so good!
00:14You're so pretty!
00:15I love you! I love you! I love your shirt!
00:18Um, sorry, uh, yeah, I was just, I was blown away.
00:22He's, Mike White is one of the best writers on this planet.
00:26Best writers of all time.
00:27He's just like a complete legend and a genius.
00:30And I was just, I was, I think I was on a plane somewhere, maybe from LA to New York,
00:34just reading them thinking, I can't believe how lucky I am to get to read these lines.
00:40You're doing this and The Perfect Couple back-to-back.
00:43It seems like you really have like a genre down.
00:45I know, I do.
00:46Although now, the next thing I'm doing is an out-and-out comedy.
00:49So, I'm trying to switch it up.
00:51Yeah, and what was the group bonding like in Thailand?
00:54It seems like there'd be a lot of activities you guys could do.
00:56Uh, it was fantastic.
00:58It was like, you know, a totally unique experience to get to live with all of your co-stars
01:03and just hang out and shoot the shit on the weekends.
01:06And, uh, yeah, I think it's really much more important maybe than people think
01:12a lot of the time that you get really close with your cast,
01:14especially in something like this that involves a lot of like thinking on your feet
01:18and some improv and, you know, if you're close with the people that are supposed to be playing your family,
01:24you'll feel more like a family and I think hopefully we pulled that off.
01:29Thank you so much. Congratulations.
01:31Thanks so much. Good to meet you.
01:32You too.