‚The White Lotus‘ star Scott Glenn says he almost turned down his „old guy“ role on the show. „I thought f*** that.“
Scott Glenn, known for his role in The White Lotus, recently shared that he nearly declined an offer to join the hit HBO series because he thought it was yet another “old guy” role.
In an appearance on The Daily Show, Glenn, now in his eighties, explained that when he was first offered the role of Jim Hollinger, he turned it down. “I just finished a film called ‘Eugene the Marine’ that was tons of martial arts and dancing and shit like that, and it was basically about ageism and how you deal with it when you’re old and still have a life left in the tank,” the actor revealed.
He continued, recalling how the producers sent him a character description of an elderly man with a cane, to which he reacted by thinking, “f*** that.” In The White Lotus, Hollinger is introduced in Bangkok, recovering at home after a recent hospital stay.
