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Sam Nivola and Cooper Koch Confront Nepo Baby Criticism and Being Accused of Playing Sexual Deviant Brothers: ‘You Still Have to Love Your Character’
Sam Nivola and Cooper Koch join Variety's 'Actors on Actors' to discuss their shows about complicated siblings.
Both actors also had to deliver showpiece moments: Nivola in Lochlan’s season-ending near-death experience and Koch in a one-take episode in which Erik explains to his attorney the abuse within the Menendez household. And then I had a period of ultimate pretension and fell in love with cinema: That audition was for “White Noise.” [I said], “This is an opportunity to be on the set of one of the greatest directors of all time,” but my parents really wanted me to go to college, which I understand. Before going to Thailand, I would speak very disparagingly about actors coming back from a shoot and being like, “I really lost myself in the character.” “Fuck you!” But when I was there, I was like, “I get it now.” I felt like Jason Isaacs was my dad, bringing such raw realness to that scene: I’m in this moment, and I’m dying.
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