Throughout the third season of The White Lotus, Patrick Schwarzenegger’s character Saxon has been purposefully standoffish, perversely single-minded, and outrageously overconfident. Which makes him as pure a chunk of this world as ocean views and day by day massages. However that consistency began to waver after the celebration on Greg’s boat, throughout which Saxon and his brother Lochlan drunkenly kissed earlier than different naughty issues began taking place between them. It seems these modifications weren’t simply psychological and emotional, but additionally bodily.
At the least in accordance with Schwarzenegger himself, who talked to Males’s Well being about taking part in a personality who “leads together with his penis” and walks with bravado once we meet him, solely to see him begin to fall again into himself because the season goes on and he begins to query what his id even is with out the ideas of cash or intercourse. Fortunately he didn’t opine about jettisoning the act of understanding from his day by day routine, or else Schwarzenegger himself may need had an id disaster.
Which is the place the lapse in bodily continuity is available in. Patrick Schwarzenegger is the son of a former Mr. Universe — and his well-known pops even commented about P.S.’ nude scene within the premiere — addressed how the timing of touchdown the job mixed together with his weight-reduction plan and regular train routines and altered how he seemed with no shirt on from one episode to the subsequent. Right here’s how he put it:
I’ve at all times liked understanding. We grew up with it. And I modify my exercise regimens and my consuming based mostly on what the character is meant to be like. I bought this job and inside three to 4 weeks, we had been filming. It was quick. My first day of filming on-set was once we shot all of my shirtless scenes on the pool, together with Episode 1, after I’m strolling by the pool.
After all, after that first day of filming, the actor’s physique did not magically stay that actual form for the remainder of the shoot. And as he bought right into a rhythm together with his weight-reduction plan and exercise routine, it rapidly began to make a distinction, which made for a noticeable-if-you’re-looking-hard-enough break in ab-related continuity. I am going to admit that is not my greatest concern for any exhibits hitting the 2025 TV schedule, however not everybody’s the identical.
Patrick Schwarzenegger continued, saying that there have been round 4 months between that first pool scene and the subsequent one which appeared in Episode 303, and he thinks the distinction between the 2 scenes is sort of noticeable. As he put it:
After which about 4 months later, we did one different shirtless pool scene for episode 3. It’s actually humorous. For those who really look carefully, you possibly can see the distinction in how a lot weight I’ve gained. I’m method tanner and method chunkier and extra muscular in episode 3. I used to be understanding continuously and consuming hen and rice and pad thai day-after-day, all day. I gained 12 to fifteen kilos all through the seven months we had been there, which was not nice for continuity, however was enjoyable.
I can think about how straightforward it will be to realize 12 to fifteen kilos in a single weekend on the White Lotus, so for that to be the extent of his beneficial properties for your complete shoot, that is possible much better than what I might come away with. They may be capable of open a complete new White Lotus resort on prime of the additional weight I might achieve. I dunno that I might be going straight to the hen and rice a lot as booze and fried meals. However I assume that is why I am solely writing in regards to the present and am not at present appearing out an incestuous relationship with my li’l bro for the sake of impressing different ladies.
The White Lotus‘ Season 3 finale might be obtainable to look at on HBO and stream with a Max subscription on Sunday, April 6, at 9:00 p.m. ET.