Sam Nivola just might be living out M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old.” The breakout “The White Lotus” actor is lamenting how difficult it is for rising, younger stars to land roles in Hollywood due to older, more established actors extending their careers by way of plastic surgery; the augmentations allow for actors to play characters who were meant to be years younger than the stars’ themselves. Nivola warns that the cycle is icing out new talent, and might leave a deficit in Hollywood after certain aging actors pass away.
“The old movie stars are getting plastic surgery, and they’re looking younger and they’re staying young,” Nivola told Variety during a recent interview. “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. With all due respect to those people, one day they won’t be here any more, literally, and they will have to create new stars…”
Nivola’s role in “White Noise” led to his mother Emily Mortimer co-writing Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” which in part speaks to this trend: The much-anticipated ensemble film centers on an aging actor (George Clooney) grappling with his legacy.
Nivola cited how one of Baumbach’s partner Greta Gerwig’s muses, Timothée Chalamet, is one of the few examples of a modern movie star. “I think Timothée Chalamet is one of the best actors alive, and he’s a total star,” he said. “He’s one of a very few examples I could come up with. But it’s a different kind of movie star; he’s not huge and jacked.”
Nivola also revealed that he feels as though he has been typecast after “The White Lotus.” He’s been offered to play similar roles, which Nivola described as “socially awkward, virginal kids who are a little weird.”
“I’m starting to feel a little boxed in by the characters I’ve played in my career,” he said. “But I’m also finally getting offers to do things where I’m a little more grown up. Hopefully the next one will be something a little different.”
Nivola isn’t the only star speaking out against plastic surgery: Jamie Lee Curtis recently told The Guardian that plastic surgery has “wiped out a generation or two of natural human [appearance].” Curtis continued, “The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers — there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances. And it is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want. I’m not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it’s hard not to go: ‘Oh, well that looks better.’ But what’s better? Better is fake. And there are too many examples – I will not name them – but very recently we have had a big onslaught through media, many of those people. … There is a genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who’ve disfigured themselves.”
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