Steve Coogan has said he landed a role in The White Lotus in part because creator Mike White is a big fan of 24 Hour Party People .

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In January, it emerged that Coogan had joined the cast for the fourth season of the hit HBO drama series , which is relocating to the south of France and the Cannes Film Festival for its latest run.

While attending the BAFTA TV Awards today (May 10), where he picked up the prize for Actor in a Comedy for How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) , Coogan revealed to Deadline that one of the key reasons that White – who writes and serves as showrunner on The White Lotus – cast him was due to his admiration of Coogan’s turn as Factory Records impresario Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People .

The cult 2002 film documented the rise of the Manchester music scene in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, charting Wilson’s transition from local news reporter to co-founder of the highly influential label.…