{"id":1406,"date":"2026-06-08T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:38:15","slug":"nicholas-duvernay-on-not-suitable-for-work-and-how-white-lotus-changed-things-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Duvernay on \u2018Not Suitable For Work\u2019 and How \u2018White Lotus\u2019 Changed Things For Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThis is my first real, true press run,\u201d <em>Not Suitable For Work<\/em> star Nicholas Duvernay says on a Zoom call from New York.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1404\">Lilly Wachowski Shares Advice to Her Pre-Transition Self at \u2018Bound\u2019 Reunion Screening:  \u201cStart Taking That Estrogen\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 27-year-old actor, who broke out as a supporting cast member on season three of <em>The White Lotus<\/em>, is experiencing several firsts as he promotes his first series regular role in the new Mindy Kaling comedy <em>Not Suitable For Work<\/em>. The Hulu series that premiered last week centers around a gaggle of overworked 20-somethings who live across the hall from one another.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuvernay plays Kel Washington, a medical student and aspiring actor. Duvernay stars alongside Avantika Vandanapu, Ella Hunt, Will Angus and Jack Martin, with Jay Ellis rounding out the main cast. \u201cWe actually all love each other,\u201d Duvernay says. \u201cIt\u2019s such a tight-knit group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBelow, the actor digs into booking <em>Not Suitable For Work<\/em>, reflects on how <em>The White Lotus<\/em> changed his path and teases his next project: the adaptation of Ali Hazelwood\u2019s romance novel, <em>The Love Hypothesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>What stood out to you about <em>Not Suitable For Work<\/em>? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tI read the pilot. I thought it was hilarious and refreshing. I feel like a lot of the comedies put out nowadays are so angled at Gen Z to the point where it\u2019s like scrolling on Instagram. It\u2019s simply pop culture references. There\u2019s no point in watching TV when you could on TikTok if you\u2019re going to get the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>What makes this one different?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt has that vintage \u2026 not to make the comparison, but from the jump, it\u2019s always had a bit of a <em>Friends<\/em> vibe. That\u2019s a giant to compare it to, but that\u2019s initially how I felt being part of it. It has a more modern take on it. It\u2019s work-obsessed kids trying to make their way in New York. They do a really good job of merging the world and making it relatable because a lot of people don\u2019t know how to navigate their 20s, especially when in this society everything is expensive. You have to work and you have to have friends who you can hang out with on the weekend or when you\u2019re off to make it through your work week, and it\u2019s just what that balance looks like.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>What was the process like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tI did a Zoom with [the team] for my read. Then I had a chemistry read with Avantika [Vandanapu], who was amazing. I loved working with her. She\u2019s brilliant. From there, I booked it. I\u2019d been working on a movie, <em>The Love Hypothesis<\/em>, with Lili Reinhardt. Jack [Martin] actually already had the role [in <em>Not Suitable For Work<\/em>] and came to visit [Lili on set], so I had met Jack the day I got it but before I got it. I told him, \u201cHey man, we might be working together.\u201d Then a few hours later, I got the call. It was great. I feel like I\u2019ve had a lot of those crazy stories, where I feel [they\u2019re] just out of a storybook, and I really don\u2019t believe them. So much of your life as an actor is proving you\u2019re worthy of something and then when someone sees you so vividly and clear that they would rewrite something for you, it\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>What do you think you learned from this experience? A coming-of-age story almost feels like a rite of passage for an actor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1402\">One-Third of Musicians Now Use AI for Inspiration on Tracks They Release, Study Finds (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis was my first series regular role, really my first opportunity to lead. Obviously, it\u2019s an ensemble, but it was a very clear storyline through and through and know that storyline from the jump and start of production. I expected the workload to be a lot. It was definitely a lot; the memorization and how fast we filmed. We did it in two and a half months. It\u2019s nine episodes, but the first one\u2019s an hour, so essentially 10 episodes, running around New York, some of it on a sound stage. It was a crash course. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve obviously prepared for my whole life.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><em>The White Lotus <\/em>did change things for you. Do you think it was about visibility?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne-hundred percent. I got picked up by UTA before the show came out. They represent so many people who all gave me good feedback when they heard I was with a smaller agency. Immediately, that bumps you up into a different tier of even what you\u2019re receiving in terms of tapes.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>I can imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThen it becomes more about just being a warm, kind person and being collaborative. That\u2019s where the art resides. It\u2019s not about putting in the best tape \u2014 when two people want to make something brilliant together and they agree on that before anything else is kind of attached to it. I think having those more creative opportunities knock on the door without having to pawn for my self-worth and favorability, it\u2019s collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Can you tell me a bit about<em> The Love Hypothesis<\/em>? What that experience was like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat one was fun. I really enjoyed everyone on it. Lili is amazing and so good. Rachel Marsh is phenomenal. Tom Bateman is brilliant. Jaboukie\u2026 the cast was so fun. It was my first time in Canada. We did a lot of hanging out. Claire Scanlon directed, and she\u2019s one of the rom-com veterans, so there was a trust that we knew she was going to accomplish her goal, and it really changes it when you can trust your director.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Totally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSometimes you\u2019re on jobs and you\u2019re like, <em>I know you want this, but sometimes I feel like it should be this. <\/em>The rom-com, there\u2019s a formulaic aspect to it. She\u2019s done it so many times before, and so you have a trust that she\u2019s not going to steer you in the wrong direction. It was great. It was partly a connective tissue to getting Not Suitable. Those jobs are kind of all connected to me because honestly, I went straight from Montreal to New York. To do them back to back, it\u2019s kind of like one period of time me. [They\u2019re] both equally special. I saw a cut of <em>The Love Hypothesis<\/em>, and I really enjoy it. I really enjoy it. I like the classic rom-coms. I haven\u2019t been a huge fan of a whole lot of the new rom-coms\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>We\u2019re were a bit of a slump, but I think we\u2019re getting out of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe are. It\u2019s always nice when you have a good book to base it off of. It features a classic trope that I think people are going to eat up. Some good drama. It\u2019s really funny. I think a very easy watch for viewers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t***<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Not Suitable For Work airs weekly on Hulu, with new episodes dropping every Tuesday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1400\">\u201cYou\u2019d Be Perfect for This!\u201d Inside the Devious Casting Scam Sweeping Hollywood<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Not Suitable For Work\u2019 star Nicholas Duvernay digs into the Mindy Kaling new comedy, his White Lotus experience and teases The Love Hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1235,944,1236,15],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-nicholas-duvernay","tag-not-suitable-for-work","tag-the-love-hypothesis","tag-the-white-lotus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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