Warning: This article contains spoilers.
“The White Lotus” scrapped an unexpected sex scene between Sarah Catherine Hook and Nicholas Duvernay’s characters in the Season 3 finale.
Show creator Mike White revealed Piper Ratliff (Hook) and Zion Lindsey (Duvernary) were supposed to hook up, even though viewers never saw them cross paths at the Thailand resort in previous episodes.
“The part that was cut, which is very disappointing, is that she decides to lose her virginity in the script in the last episode, and she actually has sex with Zion, which is Belinda’s son,” the director said on “The White Lotus Official Podcast” Monday.
“There’s a whole scene where she’s like, ‘It’s true. … I need to get this over with,’” White added.
He explained that Piper had an epiphany that she needed to have sex after spending the night in the Buddhist monastery.
However, the scene would have added an additional 10 minutes to the action-packed season finale. Plus, the “romantic rom-com vibe” didn’t match the overall darker tone of the episode.
“I was trying to do too much narratively,” White, 54, admitted.
White said the sex scene in question would have come as Piper’s dad, Tom Ratliff (played by Jason Isaacs), was plotting to kill most of his family with piña coladas spiked with poisonous seeds.
Piper’s brother Lochlan, portrayed by Sam Nivola, later appears to die in the episode after he whips up a protein shake in the contaminated blender.
However, he ultimately survives and reawakens in his father’s arms.
However, couple Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) were not so lucky as they were both killed in the season finale amid Rick’s quest for vengeance.
“It’s a classic theme of Greek tragedy: someone killing the thing they love while trying to get some revenge,” White said in the post-episode breakdown.
“[Rick] has this person who really loves him, and he just can’t experience the love in the present because he is just so fixated on the lack in himself and the lack of love he had in his past.”
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