White lotus season 2 gay scene

Episode five of The White Lotus season two has broken the series' all-time viewership records this past weekend after a shocking twist that ended with a very gay bang! Then, while Jack takes Portia on a night out of fun, arancini, and skipping out on the bill for said arancini, Quentin treats Tanya an evening at the opera to see Madama Butterfly.

She wakes up in the middle of the night and wanders the eerie halls of the villa following the sound of grunting until she walks in on a scene that rivals the shock factor of Season 1's infamous rimjob scene : Jack mounting his "uncle" Quentin as the two go at it.

And so, the plot thickened in Episode 5. I had a second round of Zoom with Mike, and I found out about a week later. But we should have also known that a simple love triangle would be too quaint for creator Mike White. Once we, like Tanya, picked our jaws off the floor, we called Woodall up to talk about what we just saw.

Hollander has talked about the boldness of White's plan for his character.

39 White Lotus 39 : However, watching her get to work on Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) is surprisingly affecting

And as expected, the gays are living. Here, he opens up about the scene and what it might mean. Mike had some ideas of what he want—like, he knew he wanted something that creeped onto the neck. My favorite, which I don't know if people will spot, is "Wendy" on my bum.

The only one that he probably would have put some thought into is the tattoo of hammers on his arm, because that's [the logo for] his football team [West Ham United Football Club]. The year-old breakout actor told us all about the kind of guy he thinks Jack is and how he stacks up against the season's other men, each with their own complicated relationship with masculinity.

So I found "cowabunga," which is his neck tattoo and that was Mike's favorite one.

And of course, he then broke down the process of making last night's shocking scene happen—from reading it in the script for the first time, to choreographing it with intimacy coordinators, to re-recording the grunts in post-production—all in the hopes that it met the bar White set with Season 1.

Without spoiling too much. He's being really courageous and reckless with it," he said before. Leo Woodall: I knew that Jack was a fun-loving, dangerous, naughty Essex boy.

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It was always beauty," before digressing into a foreboding rhetorical: "I'd also die for beauty, wouldn't you? But he confesses that "love's never been my Achilles heel. After featuring a wide array of butts all season long, The White Lotus season two finally also featured a full-frontal scene.

During that call, Mike said to me, "You know, this role is gonna be a lot of fun. Afterwards, he tells Tanya about the his own unrequited love: a young, straight Wyoming cowboy he'd met during a trip to America in his youth. So before I shot my audition tape for it, I watched some Joey Essex videos, put some sunglasses on my head, made a fake cocktail in a fancy glass, and went to town with it.

A mate of mine suggested "live fast die young," which is on my rib. When Leo Woodall's White Lotus character Jack, a cheeky Essex lad, first jumped in the pool with his toned, tattooed bod, hooting about his sensitive nipples, we knew he was trouble.

Then I had a Zoom with Mike after getting the role to talk about Jack's tattoos. That was a fun conversation. Some of them do, but they more scream "impulsive! Tanya and Portia decamp for Palermo to stay at an opulent villa owned by Quentin Tom Hollander with his posse of, as Tanya calls them, "high end gays," and his nephew, the aforementioned Jack.

Actor Leo Woodall, who plays Jack in 'The White Lotus' Season 2, discusses Episode 5's shocking ending.