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Mike White and ‘The White Lotus’ Stars Break Down That Jaw-Dropping Twist: I Want to ‘Make Gay Sex Transgressive Again’
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers up to Episode 5 of “The White Lotus,” airing Sundays on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.
Season 1 of “The White Lotus” left jaws wide open when, at the end of its fourth episode, Murray Bartlett’s Armond is caught face-deep in his employee Dillon’s (Lukas Gage) asscheeks. But with the latest second-season episode, Mike White’s HBO series may have topped that (pun intended).
“The White Lotus” introduced new characters and clash last week when English millionaire Quentin (Tom Hollander) recruits Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) to join him, his dramatic friends and his hunky nephew Jack (Leo Woodall) in partying at the beach club. Portia’s budding fling with Albie (Adam DiMarco) begins to flicker when Jack takes interest in her, leading to an awkward, jealous showdown at the bar between Portia and Jack and Albie and Lucia (Simona Tabasco). The most shocking revelation, however, comes whe
Water is wet and The White Lotus is gay. These are the two constants in this world that I live by. If one is no longer true, then nothing is accurate. Because if there isn't gay sex in a luxury hotel resort on my TV, it means that the end times must surely be upon us.
So it was with some mild alarm that I watched the season three premiere of The White Lotus and noticed a distinct lack of high-end gays. Where are they? Why aren't they trying to murder me? Am I not high-end enough? These are the questions that raced through my mind when that first hour ended with nary a homosexual in sight.
When I usually check into The White Lotus, I expect to be greeted by at least a baker's dozen worth of gays, or homo-curious people at the very least. But season three hasn't quite delivered yet on that front.
The episode opens with a new nature, Belinda's adult son, Zion, who I sure wish was gay. The vibes aren't there though. Not yet anyway. So instead, I'm forced to perform what so many gays have done throughout history, and that's to rotate to iconic divas for camp inspiration instead. Thankfully, season three is an abundance of riches on that front.
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‘White Lotus’ Star Sam Nivola on That ‘F—ed Up’ Sex Scene, Lochlan’s Sexuality and Why ‘He’s Not Some Psychopath’
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 6 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.
In Season 1 of “The White Lotus,” Murray Bartlett’s spiraling hotel manager Armond is caught with his face between his much younger employee’s asscheeks. And in Season 2, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya spots her assistant’s beau Jack (Leo Woodall) plowing his purported uncle, Quentin (Tom Hollander).
That turned out not to be incest — Quentin hired Jack to sham to be his nephew as part of Greg’s (Jon Gries) scheme to kill Tanya and inherit her coins — but author Mike White went even further for Season 3 of his HBO vacation dramedy.
In last week’s episode, brothers Lochlan (Sam Nivola) and Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) went out partying with Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), popping pills, pounding shots and taking Greg’s yacht for a joy drive. After their island escapades, the foursome return to the boat and initiate playing spi
The White Lotus gay sex scene was shocking because it was so gloriously unapologetic
Maybe you’ll have noticed – there’s just been an old-school “watercooler moment”: people talking about that scene in the second series of Sky Atlantic’s The White Lotus, when Jennifer Coolidge’s socialite, Tanya, chances upon Quentin (Tom Hollander) having sex with his supposed “nephew”, Jack (Leo Woodall). Nor is it “tastefully suggestive”. It’s stark naked, full-on, explicit.
This isn’t our old friend, moral panic. Anybody who’s ever watched The White Lotus, created by Mike White, knows it’s that courteous of wild show. In the first series, Murray Bartlett’s increasingly crazed hotel manager ends up with his face buried between an employee’s bare buttocks. Nor do viewers seem offended by the scene between Hollander and Woodall. It’s more: “Wow – did that just happen?”
Still, when was the last time a straight sex scene became a talking point? Perhaps the Regency-cunnilingus in Bridgerton, but that was clothed, suggestive, mainly played for laughs. Certainly, Netflix’s lusty motion picture of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, released around the same time as the White Lotus episode, didn’t garner the same l