‘White Lotus’’ Patrick Schwarzenegger Reacts to “Frustrating” Nepotism Casting Claims
The White Lotus just went there.
While the stage had been set for weirdness between the Ratliff family siblings—no, you didn’t imagine the off-putting, sexual vibes between Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and his younger brother Lochlan (Sam Nivola) back in episode one—the series’ Mar. 16 episode took things to a whole new level with a drug-fueled, incestuous kiss between the two brothers.
For Patrick, the fifth episode is when “everything starts to unravel.”
“One of the themes really is you enter the White Lotus as one person and you leave as another,” he continued to Today. “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.”
The 31-year-old also noted that feeling of unease the audience feels watching the events play out is intentional—and the way with which the sequence is shot—is intentional on the part of creator Mike White.
