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Topics: The White Lotus, Theo James, Jennifer Coolidge, Celebrity, Netflix, Entertainment, TV And Film
Britt Jones
Topics: The White Lotus, Theo James, Jennifer Coolidge, Celebrity, Netflix, Entertainment, TV And Film
Jason Isaacs has broken his silence over his NSFW scene in The White Lotus.
This TV show has given us everything in its three seasons.
Jennifer Coolidge’s return to the screen, Aubrey Plaza being… Aubrey Plaza, Alexandra Daddario’s striking outfits, and Theo James strutting around the sunny scenery.
But it’s also given us Isaacs, who has been melting hearts since he played both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in Peter Pan, and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise.
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Okay, so maybe he wasn’t breaking hearts as his last two characters…but he certainly played the villain like he was born to do so.
Anyway, Isaacs has kept his scenes in his past films and shows relatively PG when it comes to showing skin.
In the OA, a sadly cancelled Netflix success, he played a deranged man who kidnapped people and left them underneath his home for the fun of it.
So, it may have come as a shock for his fans when his character Timothy Ratliff gets down and dirty as he accidentally exposes himself in front of his family.
The 61-year-old actor’s character is afflicted by his drug taking, after he finds out that the FBI is perusing him over money laundering and bribery charges.
After stealing Lorazepam from his wife, he leans back and doesn’t realise that his robe has popped open.
That’s when his little slip up occurs at the White Lotus hotel in Thailand with his on-screen wife (Parker Posey) and children, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola.
But if you thought the actor was equally as shy about exposing his bits like viewers were, you’d be wrong.
Speaking about nude moment to Entertainment Weekly, he went on to joke about doing it again.
Isaacs said: "Yeah, it is now in my contract for every show I do, so we'll see. It'll get easier, hopefully."
He then went on to share a five-word response and it’s classic.
“Go big or go home.”
He said of his character: "He's been bottling it up for a very long time," he says. "There is a point coming when they leave — if they make it and they're alive, because who knows — but it's going to be unavoidable, the big secret he has been harbouring."
Pondering whether he captured the essence of his character correctly, he shared: "I don't know how I pulled it off. The audience will see whether I did or not. It'll be up to them to judge, but I just remember thinking, 'I've got to go big — go big or go home.'
“And then when things happen that I can't talk about particularly, something else had to kick in, and there's a mania and a terror that you have to access. You've got to get there. I mean, you've got to be as real as you can. And yeah, there was some inner gear changes required."
Well, if this was what season three had in store, what can we hope for in the next season from Isaacs?