White Lotus Star Patrick Schwarzenegger Reacts to Incestuous Kiss Jokes

This story contains spoilers from the March 16 episode of The White Lotus.

No, Timothée Chalamet has not checked into The White Lotus.

But a jaw-dropping scene during the March 16 episode of the HBO satire—in which brothers Saxon (played by Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (played by Sam Nivola) share an incestuous kiss—drew comparisons to the same-sex romance portrayed by Timothée and Armie Hammer in the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name.

Following the airing of the show, a user on X (previously known as Twitter) posted a photo of the Ratliff brothers embracing and smiling, accompanied by the caption “Call Me By Our Shared Surname.” Interestingly enough, Patrick, who is 31 years old, responded to this by reposting the image, along with three emojis representing both crying and laughter.

The unsettling display of brotherly love became a hot topic on social media almost instantly after it aired—which the Grown Ups 2 star said was precisely as series creator Mike White intended.

“He wants to leave that up to the interpretation of the audience of what is happening,” Patrick told Today.com in an interview published March 16. “Was a power shift happening? Is there a different power dynamic between him and Lochy? Is Lochy coming on to him? Is it the drugs? Is it the girls pressuring him? What is it? So, I think he leaves that open-ended for the audience to try to decipher.”

Since the hint of an incestuous relationship was introduced during the first episode of season three, with Lochlan gazing at Saxon’s bare body, it seems probable that the bond between the brothers will develop further as the season unfolds.

“One of the themes really is you enter the White Lotus as one person and you leave as another,” Patrick continued. “Who are you when everything that you thought you were is taken away? And I think that’s something that’s really relevant and prevalent for Saxon. Him walking into the White Lotus as the most confident and sure person of who he is, and everything gets completely questioned in his experience there.”

For a guide to the cast of The White Lotus season three, keep scrolling.

After gaining fame as a member of the K-pop group Blackpink, which includes Jisoo, Jennie, and Rosé, Lisa transitioned to playing the character Mook in the TV series White Lotus.

Looks like Lucius Malfoy missed the train to Hogwarts and instead landed at The White Lotus. That’s right: He may look different without the luscious blond hair, but the Harry Potter star is returning to the screen as another uppity father figure, playing Timothy Ratliff, described as a “wealthy businessman vacationing with his wife and three children.”

Isaacs has recently been seen on television shows such as Robot Chicken, The Great, and Sex Education (in which he starred alongside his White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood.)

Don’t scream when you see it, but Posey—who plays Timothy’s wife Victoria Ratliff—may look familiar from her movies Superman Returns, Blade: Trinity, Scream 3 and Dazed and Confused. She’s also had brief stints on such TV shows as Parks and Recreation, New Girl, Portlandia and Search Party.

However, true rom-com enthusiasts will recall her as Patricia Eden, the girlfriend of Tom Hanks’ character Joe Fox, in the 1998 beloved film You’ve Got Mail.

In this movie, she brought Patricia Eden to life on screen.

While you might be familiar with him as the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, he has established his own identity through his acting roles in “Gen V”, “The Terminal List”, and “The Staircase”. He then took on the character Saxon Ratliff in season three.

Prior to taking on the part of the Ratliffs’ daughter Piper, Hook got her feet wet in the horror and fantasy genres, portraying Debbie Glatzel in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Juliette Fairmont in First Kill and Elena Milak in Monsterland.

You may also know her from the 2024 Cruel Intentions remake as Caroline Merteuil or from the Ryan Murphy cinematic universe, in which she played Catherine Allday Davis in Impeachment: American Crime Story about the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Nivola—who is dating Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann‘s daughter Iris Apatow—rounds out the Ratliff family as young Lochlan. But before hitting the shores of Thailand, he was in another show about a rich family at the beach: The Perfect Couple, playing Will Winbury, the son of Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber‘s Greer and Tag Winbury. He even costarred on the Netflix drama with White Lotus alum Meghann Fahy, who appeared as Daphne Sullivan on season two of the HBO show before playing Merritt Monaco on The Perfect Couple.

Besides these roles, Nivola has appeared in the films “White Noise” alongside Adam Driver, “Maestro” with Bradley Cooper, and “With/In” featuring Anne Hathaway.

Of course, White Lotus fans will recognize Rothwell from season one, in which she played spa guru Belinda in Maui. Not only is she reprising the part for season three, but the actress has also graced the screen in Insecure, Wonka, A Year and Change and Love, Simon. Plus, she lent her comedy chops to Saturday Night Live as a writer from 2014 to 2015.

The Iron Man alum is assembling to play Kate in The White Lotus after portraying Christine Everhart in the Marvel franchise. More recently, she starred in Palm Royale as Dinah Donahue and Jupiter’s Legacy as Grace Kennedy-Sampson.

The Gilded Age star—who may also look familiar from The Sinner, Fargo and The Leftovers—steps into the role of Laurie, who joins pals Kate and Jaclyn for a girls’ trip in Thailand this season.

As a lifestyle expert, I’d like to highlight that while she plays the TV character Jaclyn on “The White Lotus,” she is also a bona fide TV star in real life. She has graced our screens with her presence on shows such as “True Detective,” “Bad Monkey,” “Messiah,” and “The Path.” On the big screen, she’s shone brightly as Julia in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” and Angie Genaro in “Gone Baby Gone.

You’ll feel justified in knowing that it’s not all in your head—Goggins really does look familiar. In addition to starring in two Quentin Tarantino movies (playing Billy Crash in Django Unchained and Sheriff Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight), he is also known for being Boyd Crowder in Justified from 2010 to 2015.

The English actress joins the cast in season three as free-spirited Chelsea, who has an age-gap romance with Goggins’ character Rick Hatchett. Yet, she is best known for her role as Aimee Gibbs on Netflix’s Sex Education and also appeared in Seize Them! and Daddy Issues.

Her acting credits may trace back 50 years—starting with Grounded God in 1975—but she most recently portrayed Prani Chiraanan on In Family We Trust in 2018.

The individual, who is both a skilled singer and a veteran of the military, boasts acting roles in films such as “Mechanic: Resurrection,” “Skin Trade,” and “Paradox.” Additionally, he played the character Pao on the TV show “Farang.

If 13 minutes wasn’t enough time to figure out where you recognize the German actor, allow us to refresh your memory. He played Rudolf Höss in The Zone of Interest, Reinhold Gräf in Babylon Berlin and Georg Elser in 13 Minutes.

2025-03-18 01:24

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