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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Season to a White

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Speaker 1: Lotus sees the ensemble resort show mix up the cast

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Speaker 1: and location, jumping from Hawaii to Sicily. It's pretty clear

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Speaker 1: that it's writer director Mike White has a thing for travel.

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Speaker 1: He even finished runner up on Amazing Race four teen,

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Speaker 1: competing alongside his dad, and he now films all of

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Speaker 1: White Lotus on location, which he had missed with The

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. Was partially because he's chasing that same

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Speaker 1: rush that Amazing Race gave him. He says, making movies

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Speaker 1: is slow and laborious, and you're often on a sound stage.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, I've wondered, how do I go somewhere

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Speaker 1: new every year and have a new adventure. Basically, White

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Speaker 1: Lotus is the closest I can get to that kind

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Speaker 1: of adrenaline. Filming is always brutal, but doing in Sicily

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Speaker 1: was a very cool experience. You forget the pain. You

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Speaker 1: remember the beauty. White Lotus now on HBO Max that's

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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.