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'White Lotus' Composer: My Mike White Feud is 'a Very Dark Thing'
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'White Lotus' Composer: My Mike White Feud is 'a Very Dark Thing'

I talk to Cristobal Tapia de Veer about the hit score he believes was 'truly a gift' to the show's creator, his early 'Hawaiian Hitchcock' inspo and sharp words for HBO

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DISSONANCE “I didn’t feel fully confident in the way he was using the music,” says The White Lotus composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer of the show’s creator, Mike White. (The Ankler illustration; de Veer: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images; The White Lotus: Fabio Lovino/HBO)

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