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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Marissa Long Landed a Starring Role in the Upcoming Season of White Lotus With Her Very First Audition · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The upcoming season of White Lotus, like all the ones before,
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  Speaker 2: features a bunch of recognizable stars, Laura Dern, Rosie Perez,
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  Speaker 2: and Heather Graham, alongside some actors with less familiar names
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  Speaker 2: and even less experience, including one who notably has absolutely
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  Speaker 2: positively none.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, her name is Marissa Long. And not only is
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  Speaker 3: this her first acting gig, literally, the White Lotus was
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  Speaker 3: the very first thing she ever even auditioned for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she tells The Hollywood Reporter that it's the craziest
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  Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to her and the definition of surreal.
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  Speaker 2: And her boyfriend was truly happy for her, but also
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  Speaker 2: in shock because he's auditioned hundreds of times. He's Tanner
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  Speaker 2: Zagarino from The Summer I Turned Pretty.
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  Speaker 3: And these days, many auditions are recorded at home via self-tapes.
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  Speaker 3: And Marissa, who was previously a model, was the camera
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  Speaker 3: person for basically all of Tanner's.
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  Speaker 1: And Tanner was like, you should try acting. He actually
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  Speaker 1: convinced his manager to sign Marissa, who also reps Michael Imperioli,
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  Speaker 1: who starred in season two of White Lotus.
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  Speaker 2: Who heard they were having trouble casting a role. So
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  Speaker 2: Marissa took her very first crack at a self-tape and boom,
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  Speaker 2: she's starring on season four coming to HBO next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.