The naked truth behind Jason Isaacs’s sensational full-frontal scene in The White Lotus has been revealed and it involves a rather deceptive prop.
The actor, 61, bared all for the raunchy scene in the fourth episode of season three of the hit HBO drama – titled Hide or Seek – this month.
While staying at a swanky Thai holiday resort – the setting for the latest series – Jason’s character, financier Timothy Ratliff, accidentally allowed his robe to come undone while high on his wife Victoria’s (Parker Posey) Lorazepam.
The revealing moment happened in full view of Timothy’s three kids, making it a particularly dramatic instance of nudity in a series which is jam-packed with them.
Jason has been keeping schtum on the attention-grabbing scene since its airing, telling Decider, ‘I think it’s digital. I wasn’t there that day’, in a bid to ramp up the mystery around the shoot.
But it turns out all is not as it seems, with his onscreen children, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook, revealing to TV Insider that he used a prosthetic to boost his package.
The naked truth behind Jason Isaacs’s sensational full-frontal scene in The White Lotus has been revealed and it involves a rather deceptive prop
The actor, 61, bared all for the raunchy scene in the fourth episode of season three of the hit HBO drama – titled Hide or Seek – this month
But his onscreen children, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook (second right and right, with Jason, Parker Posey and Patrick Schwarzenegger) said he used a prosthetic
Sarah said: ‘It was really funny. He was very excited to do it. I think he took pride in the prosthetic.’
Sam added: ‘He’s like, “It’s my fake d**k scene today!”‘
Speaking about the scene, Jason expressed a desire to get his kit off in future acting performances.
‘Yeah, it is now in my contract for every show I do, so we’ll see,’ he joked.
‘It’ll get easier, hopefully.’
The awkward moment came after Ratliff matriarch Victoria entered their villa and mentioned that some of her Lorazepam pills were missing, unaware that her husband Timothy had been helping himself to her supply.
While the financier isn’t exactly a regular Lorazepam user, he had been quite stressed out after learning that he may be going to jail for a very long time due to his shady business dealings.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Jason added of his character’s storyline: ‘He’s drugging himself into a stupor to try not to think about the fact that his entire life is blowing up and trying to work out what to do about it.
The season three premiere, which aired last month, featured a full-frontal scene with Patrick’s Saxon, who is Timothy’s son in the show
Steve Zahn’s Mark Mossbacher was seen nude in the first season of the hit series, which is no stranger to nudity
Meanwhile, Theo James’s Cameron Babcock went full frontal in season two, much to the shock of viewers
‘It was actually quite challenging — I remember reading the scripts thinking, “Wow, I’ve got to keep my powder dry for five or six episodes, and then this s**t really kicks off.”
‘You haven’t seen other things that are coming, but I just remember thinking, “I better dig deep and produce something here,” because there’s a lot of parts you can go through and tell a very dramatic story without your character going through anything extreme.
‘But there’s some big, old acting coming up.’
The White Lotus hasn’t shied away from nudity since it launched on HBO in 2021.
The season three premiere, which aired last month, featured a full-frontal scene with Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon, who is Timothy’s son in the show, that also hinted at a bizarre incest storyline.
Steve Zahn’s Mark Mossbacher was seen nude in the first season, while Theo James’s Cameron Babcock went full frontal in season two.
