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Sam Nivola says that the hug of Hollywood plastic surgery has led to a shortage of opportunities for promising actors of his generation.
The “Blanco Loto” actor made the eyebrow claim in a new interview with Variety published on Thursday. In it, he expressed his admiration for Tom Cruise and suggested that cosmetic procedures have made it more difficult for younger actors to reach Cruise’s height in the current entertainment panorama.
“The old film stars are undergoing plastic surgery, and they look younger and stay young. You have these really older people who play young papers,” he told The Outlet. “And it is not giving space for young people to move and make a name. With due respect to those people, one day they will no longer be here, and they will have to create new stars.”
When asked to appoint a contemporary actor whose work he admired, Nivola pointed to Timothée Chalamet, whom he described as “one of the best living actors” and a “total star.” Even so, he clarified that he saw Chalamet as “a different type of movie star”, partly because “it is not huge and is crazy.”
Nivola, 21, jumped to fame in the third season of “The White Lotus”, in which he portrayed Lochlan Ratliff.
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His role in the Smash HBO series, he said, has resulted in numerous offers to interpret similar characters or, as he expressed, “socially uncomfortable and virginal children who are a bit weird.”
“I’m starting to feel a little locked by the characters I’ve played in my career,” he said. “But I also finally receive offers to do things where I am a little more adult. I hope the next one is something a bit different.”
Although Nivola is not the first celebrity to speak against cosmetic surgery, his comments caused a heated response on social networks, and some suggest that his position was indicative of the ageist mentality that may be promoting the actors to look for such procedures in the first place.
“Those people will not be there someday, true. But you will never be like those people,” wrote one person in X.
He added another: “I liked it more when I didn’t talk.”
Others pointed out that Nivola’s parents are actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola and, due to that family connection, it may have more easier to consider film and television projects than some of their classmates.
In another part of his variety chat, Nivola went to the so -called “nepo baby” involvement, pointing out: “Apart from my genes, I don’t think I can attribute much of my success to my parents.”
“I feel proud to have done it for myself, sometimes despite them,” he said. “I did not get my father’s agent to call such and such. I did it alone. I didn’t want to give anyone an excuse to be able to say that anything he has achieved has been for someone more than me. And I am proud of that.”