‘The White Lotus' Season 3: Why Do Lochlan And Piper Look So Familiar?

Forbes

01-04-2025

Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook in "The White Lotus."
The White Lotus Season 3's cast includes Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook, who along with Patrick Schwarzenegger play siblings Lochlan, Piper and Saxon Ratliff. What else have Nivola and Hook appeared in?
The White Lotus Season 3 kicked off Feb. 16 on Max with new episodes premiering weekly. Sunday's episode was the seventh this season, with the season finale set for this weekend.
Like the first two seasons of The White Lotus, Season 3 features an ensemble cast of characters whose paths intertwine as the story leads to the reveal of a mysterious death that was teased at the beginning of the season.
Embroiled in the anxiety-inducing scenarios of The White Lotus Season 3 are the three Ratliff siblings, who are in Thailand with their parents, Timothy (Jason Isaacs) and Victoria (Parker Posey).
Piper encourages the family to vacation in Thailand over the false pretense that she is going to interview a monk at a nearby monastery, but instead, she causes a flap when she tells her parents she wants to stay there to study for a year. Meanwhile, Saxon plans to introduce his little brother Lochlan to a life of sex and partying, an idea that goes horribly awry after they use mind-altering substances.
Saxon, of course, is instantly familiar to audiences because he's played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger and renowned journalist Maria Shriver.
In the past few years, the younger Schwarzenegger has starred in such shows as The Boys' spinoff series Gen V, the Chris Pratt action series The Terminal List and the Colin Firth and Toni Collette miniseries The Staircase.
Both Nivola and Hook have built impressive resumes as well. While Nivola played a pair of small roles in 2013 and 2014, his career began in earnest in 2021 with a guest role in Lily James' Prime Video miniseries The Pursuit of Love.
In feature films, Nivola also appeared in a small role as Alexander Bernstein, one of Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre's (Carey Mulligan) three children in the 2023 Netflix original movie Maestro.
Hook's early credits include guest turns in NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2019, Hulu's Monsterland in 2020 and FX's American Crime Story: Impeachment in 2021.
Below are some of the films and TV shows Hook and Nivola have appeared in before, which may explain why they look so familiar.
Sarah Catherine Hook in "The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It."
Sarah Catherine Hook stars as Debbie Glatzel opposite Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
At the beginning of the film, the Warrens come to the Glatzel family home to document the exorcism of Debbie's younger brother, David (Julian Hilliard). During the exorcism, however, Debbie's boyfriend, Arne Johnson (Ruairi O'Connor) asks the demon to enter his soul to save David. When Arne becomes possessed, he commits a heinous crime.
Sam Nivola and Adam Driver in "White Noise."
Sam Nivola stars Heinrich Gladney, the son of Jack (Adam Driver) and stepson of Jack's fourth wife, Babette (Greta Gerwig), in White Noise, a Netflix original film.
Directed by Noah Baumbach, White Noise is an absurdist dark comedy set in 1984, which is adapted from Don DeLillo's novel about the blended family dealing with 'love, death and an airborne toxic event.'
Sarah Catherine Hook in "First Kill."
Sarah Catherine Hook stars in the lead role of Juliette Fairmont in the Netflix original series First Kill as a 16-year-old vampire who must complete a huge right of passage: She must make her 'first kill' of a human to be accepted as an adult vampire.
Juliette faces one huge roadblock, though, as she and a vampire hunter, Cal Burns (Imani Lewis) are falling for each other. Complicating matters, Cal, too, must make her 'first kill' to win her family's approval. First Kill, which consists of eight episodes, was canceled after one season.
Sam Nivola and Nicole Kidman in "The Perfect Couple."
Sam Nivola stars as Will, the son of Greer Garson Winbury (Nicole Kidman) and Tag Winbury (Liev Schreiber) in The Perfect Couple, a six-episode Netflix original miniseries.
Like The White Lotus, The Perfect Couple surrounds a mysterious death and nearly everyone in the huge ensemble cast is suspect. The Perfect Couple also stars Eve Hewson, Meghann Fahy, Billy Howle, Jack Reynor, Dakota Fanning, Donna Lynne Champlin, Isabelle Adjani and Michael Beach.
Sarah Catherine Hook in "Cruel Intentions."
Sarah Catherine Hook stars in the Prime Video original series Cruel Intentions, an update of the 1999 dark romantic thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon. The original film is based on 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
The names of the characters in the update of Cruel Intentions are different from those in the 1999 film. As such, Hook plays Caroline Merteuil, who along with her stepbrother Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess) conspire to seduce Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith) — the daughter of the U.S. vice president — as a way to maintain their status at an elite Washington, D.C., college.
Written and directed by Mike White, The White Lotus Season 3 also stars Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, Walton Goggins, Lalisa Manobal, Tayme Thapthimthong, Patravadi Mejudhon, Aimee Lou Wood, Charlotte Le Bon, Jon Gries and Sam Rockwell.
The first seven episodes of The White Lotus Season 3 as well as all episodes in Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Max.