Sam Nivola is ready for older actors to clear the way for the next generation.

“The old movie stars are getting plastic surgery, and they’re looking younger and they’re staying young,” the White Lotus actor told Variety in a story published Thursday, August 7. “You have these really old people playing young roles. And it’s not giving any space for the young’uns to move in and make a name for themselves.”

Nivola, 21, is the son of actors Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer. Though he got his start on an episode of Mortimer’s British comedy series Doll & Em, his breakout role came in 2025 when he played Lochlan Ratliff, the shy teenage son of financier Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) and his wife, Victoria Ratliff (Parker Posey), on The White Lotus season 3.

“With all due respect to those

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