Another week of The White Lotus means another nude scene. The most recent happens to involve Jason Isaacs, who plays Timothy Ratliff, a finance man from North Carolina harboring a big secret that will likely tear his family apart. Juicy! But while he’s busy trying to keep his loved ones from finding out about his dark past, he accidentally exposes them to … something else. During Sunday’s episode, Timothy sits down in a drug-induced stupor and accidentally flashes his family through his half-open hotel robe. While he appears to bare it all, his co-stars were quick to point out that the scene was made with the help of some Hollywood magic.
“That wasn’t his real penis,” Sam Nivola, who plays Timothy’s son Lochlan, told TV Insider. Sarah Catherine Hook, who plays Timothy’s daughter, Piper, also set the record straight. “It was a prosthetic. He was very excited to do it,” she said of Isaacs. “I think he took pride in the prosthetic. It’s a big deal to him. He gave that guy a nice shot several times.”
Although it was fake, Isaacs seems to have had a good time shooting the nude scene — he even joked that he’s ready to do more in the future. “Yeah, it is now in my contract for every show I do, so we’ll see,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “It’ll get easier, hopefully.”
While the actors who play the Ratliffs have spoken about penises, none of them has mentioned the subtly incestuous vibe among their characters. Will they? Won’t they? We’ll just have to see next Sunday.
