‘White Lotus’’ Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola React to Incestuous Kissing Scene
This text incorporates main spoilers for episode six of The White Lotus.
Sam Nivola is dishing on that scene from The White Lotus.
The actor—who performs Lochlan Ratliff on season three of Mike White‘s HBO hit—recalled what it was like filming the threesome scene with Patrick Schwarzenegger, who performs his brother Saxon, and Charlotte Le Bon, who performs the third particular person of their drug-fueled sexcapades, Chloe.
“Within the scene, Patrick and I are brothers, with this woman who we simply met just like the day earlier than,” Sam advised Selection in an interview printed aired the episode aired March 23. “It was very bizarre kissing Patrick as a result of he’s a very good good friend of mine. And, you realize, 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,” the 21-year-old continued. “Weirdly, it was simpler to do issues with Charlotte as a result of there have been no stakes. It’s simply this particular person I’ve simply met.”
As a result of Sam had already struck up a deep reference to Patrick—who he “knew very effectively” after filming collectively for weeks at that time—having to movie a intercourse scene with him mirrored their very own characters’ discomfort.
