The White Lotus Season 3 would have witnessed Piper lose her virginity to Zion had they not lower the scene for runtime. Collection creator Mike White spoke out about reducing the scene the place Piper will get intimate with Zion from the final episode of the season, despite the fact that he had wished to function it.
Initially deliberate to come back after Sarah Catherine Hook’s Piper dramatically left the monastery, the deleted scene would have seen her performing upon a private epiphany triggered by a earlier dialog together with her older brother Saxon, performed by Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Within the season’s first episode, Saxon known as Piper a virgin, and the scene was supposed to come back to an entire circle within the collection finale of the HBO Max hit present, which aired on April 6, 2025.
White took to the The White Lotus Official Podcast to clarify, “It was simply one in every of these items the place it is an hour and a half already, and it could have added, like, 10 minutes to the factor.”
In White’s opinion, the scene launched a lighthearted, amorous tone that didn’t sit nicely with the extra sinister subplot of Jason Isaacs’s Timothy nearly murdering his entire household with the poisonous fruit.
Mike added, “It had slightly little bit of a romantic rom-com vibe in the midst of [Timothy] making an attempt to kill the household with the ping pong fruits.”
White defined that the tone contradiction made it onerous to incorporate it ultimately, significantly for the reason that episode’s already lengthy operating time was ninety minutes.
The author-director stated the scene appeared a becoming follow-up to Piper’s storyline concerning the monastery, because the character chooses to expertise a brand new sort of freedom. White added that when she comes again from the monastery, by opting to lose her virginity within the lower scene, Piper makes an attempt to regain management over her personal selections.
Regardless that it was lower, the scene provides Piper’s journey this season an added depth. The deleted scene, which was tonally completely different from the remainder of the extreme narrative arcs round it, would have starred Nicholas Duvernay as Zion alongside Sarah Catherine Hook as Piper.
The White Lotus Season 3 is offered on Max.
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