Warning: Spoilers for “The White Lotus” under!
“The White Lotus” wrapped its third season on Sunday, however for a lot of viewers, the sequence’ climax would possibly effectively have been the March 23 episode, which noticed brothers Saxon and Lochlan Ratliff (performed by Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola) have interaction in an incestuous threesome with Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon).
Showing on “The Tonight Show” Thursday, Schwarzenegger spoke about filming his steamy, albeit troubling, scenes with Nivola, and shared how his real-life fiancée, mannequin Abby Champion, felt about his on-screen hookups.
“My fiancée was nagging me nonstop when I booked the role,” Schwarzenegger recalled to host Jimmy Fallon.
When the actor refused to disclose which of this season’s characters die, he stated Champion started needling him over whether or not his position would contain any intercourse scenes.
“She was like, ‘Just tell me if you get with people.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do,’” he recalled. “And she was like, ‘Who? Which girls do you get with?’ I was like, ‘I can’t tell you.’”
Schwarzenegger stated Champion was each shocked and relieved when she discovered the reality.
“She was like, ‘You got with your brother?!’ She’s like, ‘You should have told me that way earlier. We would have had no fights,’” he quipped.
Schwarzenegger’s co-stars have beforehand dropped a number of behind-the-scenes tidbits about how the much-buzzed-about tryst got here along with the assistance of intimacy coordinators.
“It was very weird kissing Patrick because he’s a really good friend of mine. And, you know, I’m straight, he’s straight,” Nivola informed Selection final month. “It’s already weird. It would have been easier if that was the first time we were meeting. Weirdly, it was easier to do things with Charlotte because there were no stakes. It’s just this person I’ve just met. But Patrick was already like a brother to me. It felt sort of fucked up.”
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As for Le Bon, she stated that Saxon’s less-than-ecstatic response when Lochlan kisses him was Schwarzenegger’s “genuine reaction.”
“We all thought he was going to throw up. And Sam was like, “It’s fine, it’s just a kiss, calm down!” she recalled to Vulture.
Although “The White Lotus” has been identified to highlight LGBTQ+ themes throughout its three seasons, Nivola stated what occurred was not meant to make clear the characters’ sexualities in any approach.
“Lochlan has such a one-track mind. He wants love and attention — it could be from a guy, it could be from a girl,” he informed Selection. “I don’t think he knows what he’s attracted to yet. If he finds out he’s attracted to men after this season, then it will probably become a problem, given his family being rich, conservative Southerners. But at this time, that’s not what’s going through his head.”
Schwarzenegger and Champion obtained engaged in December 2023. Showing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” final month, the actor recalled touchdown his position on “The White Lotus” simply days after he popped the query.
Luckily, the sudden postponement wasn’t a problem. Champion is “a huge fan” of the present, Schwarzenegger stated, earlier than including that the pair will marry this summer time.
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