[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The White Lotus, Season 3 Episode 6, “Denials.”]
The latest episode of Mike White’s The White Lotus, following within the proud custom of previous seasons, featured a scene during which issues obtained a bit intense for brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola), two vacationers at The White Lotus resort who, throughout a really intoxicated evening, engaged in some very unbrotherly actions. In an interview with Selection, The White Lotus forged member Sam Nivola confirmed that “doing the intercourse scene was nerve-racking.”
The precise wild evening in query befell in Episode 5, “Full-Moon Celebration,” although everybody’s reminiscences of the evening are pale the following day, and it’s not till Episode 6 {that a} flashback reveals how intense the quasi-threesome obtained between Saxon, Lochlan, and new acquaintance Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon): Not solely do the brothers make out, however Lochlan gave Saxon a handjob at one level.
Nivola attributed no less than a part of the stress of taking pictures the scene to the truth that the scene befell on a ship, and he will get seasick. Moreover, although, “it was very bizarre kissing Patrick as a result of he’s a very good good friend of mine. And, , I’m straight, he’s straight. It’s already bizarre. It might have been simpler if that was the primary time we have been assembly… However Patrick was already like a brother to me. It felt form of fucked up.”
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Nivola (the son of actors Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer) did communicate to the worth of getting an intimacy coordinator on set, although additionally credited White, because the director of the episode, with preserving issues shifting easily. “It’s humorous the best way intimacy coordinators discuss. They’re at all times utilizing anatomically appropriate vocabulary that feels stale and awkward. I’d be like, ‘I don’t know if I can grasp the shaft,’ after which Mike could be like, ‘Simply jerk him off.’ And I’d be like, ‘OK, that I perceive.’”
There are nonetheless two episodes left on this season of The White Lotus, which implies lots of potential for this example to explode additional (particularly contemplating that some unclear gun violence is lurking sooner or later for these characters). For extra, try our full evaluation of the third season, and what LISA of BLACKPINK needed to say about making her appearing debut on the HBO drama.