“It’s going to start a conversation,” Schwarzenegger tells EW.
Fabio Lovino/HBO
Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe White Lotusseason 3, episode 6, “Denials.”
No, things… well,escalated.
Patrick Schwarzenegger, ‘The White Lotus’.Credit:Fabio Lovino/HBO
“First off, I was ecstatic,” the actor tellsEntertainment Weekly.
We didn’t have the script and we didn’t really know what we were getting into."
This is crazy.'"
Sam Nivola, ‘The White Lotus’.Stefano Delia/HBO
“I remember him texting me and being like, ‘It’s going to be great.’
And it’s going to start a conversation.
“You’re fantastic in it,” Isaacs tells him.
Schwarzenegger starts laughing as he asks, “Inthatscene?
“, referring to the flashbacks revealing Saxon and Lochlan’s incestuous moment.
“No, no, no,” Isaacs clarifies.
“That, yes, but the aftermath of it?
I see the change in Saxon.
It’s absolutely brilliant.”
Schwarzenegger once again credits White with creating such a thorough road map for him to follow with the script.
“All these different things.
“It’s really a fun moment,” Schwarzenegger agrees.
“But he also leaves a lot of it up to interpretation from the audience and from the fans.
He wants to not-so-deliberately say everything that happened and show everything that happened.
So I think that’s the brilliant part about Mike White.”
“And there’s an intimacy coordinator.
It’s a closed set.”
No “hang-xiety” for the actors, at least.
The White Lotusairs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and streams on Max.
