# @hollywoodreporter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZuwtxlEhPo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66833213-hollywoodreporter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-18T14:30:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hollywood Reporter (@hollywoodreporter) — https://gondola.cc/hollywoodreporter

## Caption

It was her first-ever audition tape...and she landed a lead on #TheWhiteLotus 🪷⁠
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#MarissaLong, a 25-year-old model from Tulsa, has never been an actor before. Her closest brush with the business had been helping her boyfriend record audition tapes in a bedroom in the Valley.⁠
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But then, one day last November, she decided to tape one of her own — and ended up with a leading role on the most prestigious HBO series since Bran Stark ascended to the Iron Throne, or at least since Tom Wambsgans took over Waystar Royco.⁠
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"It was just the craziest thing that could ever happen, the very definition of surreal," she says of her astounding beginner's luck.⁠
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Read the full feature at the link in bio.⁠
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Photographer: Lenka Ulrichova lenkaulrichovaphoto

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thewhitelotus, marissalong

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