Murray Barlett on White Lotus Sex Scene: We Just Played

May 2024 · 3 minute read

HBO‘s The White Lotus is our official Sunday scaries show. Meaning, it’s the show we watch to put off our own “Sunday scaries” while reveling in the wild anxious moments of The White Lotus itself. And nothing in the show thus far has been as wild as that White Lotus rim scene. Episode 4 ended with hotel manager Armand (Murray Bartlett) spiraling out of control on a cocktail of booze, drugs, and self-destruction. He finally cornered hot staffer Dillon (Lukas Gage) and bartered for one night of debauched partying with the young man. Of course, that goes to hell for Armand when his nemesis, Shane (Jake Lacy) and coworker Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) walk in on him eating out Dillon’s butt.

So how did this wild White Lotus rimming scene come to be? According to star Murray Bartlett, “We just played.”

In an interview with LOGO News, Bartlett explained, “Honestly, we didn’t have a lot of conversations outside of just working on the scenes at the time. I think partly because it was just there; it was just written in the script. This character was fully realized and complicated and had all these aspects that I don’t think they needed explanation.”

But more to the point, Bartlett said that The White Lotus writer and director Mike White created a safe space on set for him and Gage to explore “different levels” of the scene.

“There wasn’t a lot of talk [about] outside of the moment of what we were playing with. And I love that way of working, that Mike [White] just makes you feel like you can completely play on set,” Bartlett said. “You’re just exploring, but he gives you this incredible library of information about the character in the script.”

“So I didn’t have a lot of questions and I feel like he didn’t really need to explain a lot of stuff. We just played,” Bartlett said.

So Bartlett enjoyed the process of bringing that shocking White Lotus Episode 4 sex scene to life, but what about his scene partner? Well, judging by Lukas Gage’s reaction to a fan tweet, the Euphoria alum also had a cracking time…

“Big congrats to @lukasgage for going from having his ass beaten up in one HBO show to having his ass eaten up in a different HBO show,” wrote user @dramafriend. Gage quote retweeted it with this sentiment: “i want this on my grave.”

There are only two episodes left of The White Lotus on HBO and HBO Max. The White Lotus Episode 5 premieres this Sunday at 9 PM ET.

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