Yahoo Lifestyle ‘White Lotus’ Star Says Filming Threesome Scene Left Him ‘On The Verge Of Passing Out’
Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The White Lotus.”
It turns out “The White Lotus” star Sam Nivola had just as much of a hard time filming the show’s incestuous threesome scene as viewers had watching it.
While speaking with Elite Daily, the 21-year-old actor revealed that he “was on the verge of passing out” at “one point” while filming the scene, which he said “took a couple hours to film.”
In Episode 6 of the Max series’ third season, which aired Sunday, Nivola’s character, Lochlan Ratliff, sleeps with party animal Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) alongside his brother Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) following a drug-filled evening. In an ick-inducing turn of events, Lochlan begins jerking off Saxon during the act.
“I didn’t realize how exhausting it is to have fake sex. I was sort of doing a one-armed plank, with my other hand jerking off Patrick,” Nivola said in the interview published Monday. “It was like doing weight lifting with your right arm while you do a plank, and it lasted for such a long time.”
Nivola went on to share that the scene marked his first time filming a sex scene.
“It was my first time ever kissing anyone on camera, let alone doing a sex scene, let alone doing a sex scene with two people, let alone doing a sex scene with someone who is playing your brother,” he said.
While the shock factor of the threesome scene certainly takes center stage, Nivola told Variety that he doesn’t believe Lochlan inappropriately touching Saxon is a “sexual thing.”
“Looking at Saxon while he’s jerking off is not a sexual thing,” Sam explained. “It’s more that he’s studying him: ‘Who is this guy? How can I get him to like me? How can I become more like him?’”
Nivola wasn’t the only actor who had an intense reaction to filming some of the drama show’s most indecorous scenes.
Le Bon, 38, claimed to Vulture earlier this month that Schwarzenegger, 31, had a “really difficult” time filming the kiss between Saxon and Lochlan during the show’s fifth episode.
“Well, obviously they’re not brothers by blood, so that made it easier,” she told the outlet. “I think for Patrick it was really difficult. For Sam [Nivola], he was kind of like, ‘It’s whatever, let’s just do it well one time and it will be over.’ You know? Because if you don’t do it well the first time, then you have to do it over and over again.”
