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21-year-old Sam Nivola has built a reputation for working with distinguished luminaries in the entertainment industry. In 2022, the young actor worked with director Noah Baumbach for his absurdist comedy White Noise. Then, he appeared as Will Winbury in the Netflix miniseries The Perfect Couple with Nicole Kidman. Then, finally, we will be seeing him in the third season of The White Lotus.
In the upcoming season of The White Lotus, Sam Nivola will be playing the youngest child of Timothy (Jason Isaacs) and Victoria (Parker Posey) Ratliff. In a recent interview with ScreenRant, Nivola spoke about the thematic similarities between The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus Season 3. He said:
"Yeah. I mean, it's interesting. My character in the Perfect Couple was really actually, I think, pretty similar to Lochlan in a lot of ways. The shows are very different. They're very similar at face value, but then when you look into it, I think The White Lotus starts with the murder and then jumps back a week earlier and then plays it all out, whereas the timeline of the Perfect Couple was completely jumbled in a cool way that was a mix of flashbacks and present day and all leading up to this thing."
What did Sam Nivola say about the similarities between the two shows?
Before joining The White Lotus Season 3 Sam Nivola appeared as Will Winbury, one of Greer Winbury (Nicole Kidman)'s children in The Perfect Couple. In the HBO series The White Lotus, Nivola's role is that of a high school senior, Lachlan Ratliff. He sat down for an interview with ScreenRant to promote the next season of the HBO hit.
In the ScreenRant interview, the actor pointed out that both The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus are quite similar thematically, as they highlight the problems with wealthy people. But he also talked about the major way in which the HBO and Netflix shows are different from each other.
Further, Sam Nivola expressed his happiness about working on Netflix's The Perfect Couple, which was led by Nicole Kidman before The White Lotus. He said:
"It was actually a really nice to sort of - it was really great to get to do the Perfect Couple before The White Lotus because it tackles similar themes of wealth and the problems with that and how these rich people can sort of get away with murder. And yeah, just what it's like to be someone from one of these really, really wealthy families and what the family dynamics are like. It was really great to get a run at that before going to do it again."
What does Sam Nivola's comment mean?
The actor's comment highlights that while both, The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus revolve around corrupt wealthy people, mysteries, and murders, they are different from the storytelling perspective. The White Lotus has earned popular and critical acclaim for its complex storytelling while Netflix's The Perfect Couple experienced a mixed reaction in comparison.
The difference in storytelling is why the critics' rating for The White Lotus on Rotten Tomatoes is 92% and audience approval is 76%. Conversely, the critics' rating for the Netflix miniseries is 65% while the audience gave it a rating of 64%. In the era when movies and shows garner divisive reactions from audiences and critics, The Perfect Couple is one of the rare examples in which both sections of viewers appreciated the show.
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What do you think about Sam Nivola's comments? You can see him on The White Lotus Season 3, which will air its first episode on February 16, 2025, on HBO. The eighth and final episode of this upcoming season will be released on April 6, 2025.
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