Woody Harrelson has revealed why he turned down a role in the third season of The White Lotus – find out more below.
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Last week (April 2), The Hollywood Reporter published an oral history on the third season of The White Lotus, revealing that Harrelson was originally considered for both Walton Goggins‘ and Sam Rockwell‘s roles.
Harrelson had reportedly tried to get a pay bump, even going as far as to talk to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav directly to negotiate his salary, but was declined. Regardless, he signed on for the project but later dropped out, and was replaced by Sam Rockwell.
In a new statement to The Daily Beast, Harrelson has clarified that his exit wasn’t due to money: “I was set to do White Lotus and very excited. Unfortunately, their production schedule shifted, and conflicted with a pre-planned family vacation, forcing me to make an extremely hard decision.”
Harrelson added of Rockwell in his statement: “Things must be meant to be though, because I couldn’t have done as fantastic a job as Sam, who is killing it.”
It comes after Lily Allen recently revealed that she had a failed audition for the same show: “I did do a self-tape for The White Lotus and obviously did not get it. But I’m a bit scared of doing self-tapes.”
The third season of The White Lotus received a four-star review from NME, with Nick Levine writing: “A little sweetness definitely helps to balance out the prevailing saltiness. As the season progresses, the sneaky intricacy of White’s plotting begins to yield surreal, shocking and genuinely hilarious moments.
“No one can write a scene where one character pretends not to remember another quite as exquisitely as White. Tanya may be gone, but this transgressive soap opera remains unique and completely jaw-dropping.”
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