SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on The White Lotus Season 3, Episode 6.
Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s Saxon and Sam Nivola‘s Lochlan shared more than just a kiss on The White Lotus, and the vibes between the Ratliff brothers have entirely shifted.
The Ratliff brothers starred in one of the most shocking scenes of the latest season of the HBO drama as it takes on the taboo subject of incest and has the fictional characters questioning their decisions.
In the featurette following Episode 6, Nivola notes that although the series is set at a resort “focused on mindfulness,” on the flip side, the characters question “whether or not you can make peace with yourself and your demons.”
And it’s those demons that Saxon and Lochlan are fighting with the morning after their sexual encounter. As the characters recuperate from the night of partying, they remember they shared more than a kiss. In the shocking moment of the night, Saxon recalls that his younger brother multi-tasked during a threesome and pleasured him while being with Charlotte Le Bon’s Chloe.
“On the bot, Lochlan is leaning into the Saxon ethos,” Nivola says, while Schwarzenegger adds, “Lochlan is flowing in a different way that is all building moment of him getting more and more confident.”
“Then we have this moment of us two in bed — it’s just this heightened collapse,” Schwarzenegger says.
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The morning after the incident, Saxon and Lochlan have trouble talking to each other after everything that happened.
“For Saxon what I’m feeling that morning is total confusion and disgust of myself and just like curiosity of what that means for everything that I stand for,” Schwarzenegger explains. “Overall, it definitely changes the dynamic.”
Nivola adds that Lochlan is “confused because I thought that would be something that would make you happy. But now suddenly he doesn’t even want to talk to me or look at me. And I’m just desperate for any kind of affirmation that I’m normal, but I’m not, and none of us are. We did a weird thing.”
Schwarzenegger says that his character is usually “the more dominant one,” but following the incident, he felt “insecure.” This is noticeable in the scene with Chloe and Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea, where they “bully” him, recalling the moment with his brother when Saxon acts like he didn’t remember.
“It just destroys Saxon,” Schwarzenegger says. “It’s the first time you see Saxon not being able to speak and getting all flustered.”
In the scene, Chelsea tells Saxon, “I don’t think there’s a drink in the world that would make me get with my brother.”
Social media was abuzz dissecting every scene of The White Lotus, and they noticed that the Ratliff brothers were wearing each other’s swim shorts the next day.
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