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Jason performs Timothy Ratliff, the patriarch of a rich southern household on trip in Thailand for Season 3 of the hit HBO present.🚨🚨 Minor Spoiler Alert 🚨🚨Just a few episodes in, Timothy (Jason) navigates a gradual burn crash-out as he tries to maintain his company downfall from his eccentrically out-of-touch household, when all of a sudden he does not discover his penis hanging out of his bathrobe in entrance of his youngsters.The youngsters, Saxon, Piper, and Lochlan Ratliff (performed by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola), freak out after they see their father’s member in broad daylight. Based mostly on the viral dialog, the viewers additionally freaked out.Whereas actors Sam and Sarah confirmed to TV Insider that the penis reveal “was a prosthetic,” the surprising second has develop into considerably of a White Lotus custom.In Season 1, Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn), one other frenzied father, confirmed prostethic swollen testicles. In Season 2, Cameron Babcock (Theo James) wore a prosthetic penis whereas being caught becoming a showering swimsuit.The dialog began once more for Season 3, however the Harry Potter star wasn’t an enormous fan of the subject and made that very clear.“Lots of people are debating it. It is everywhere in the web,” Jason mentioned on CBS Mornings when quizzed about whether or not or not the nude scene was actual or not. “And it is attention-grabbing as a result of one of the best actress this yr is Mikey Madison on the Oscars. And I do not see anyone discussing her vulva, which was on televison on a regular basis.”Mikey gained Greatest Actress on the 2025 Academy Awards for her titular position because the unique dancer Ani Mikheeva in Sean Baker’s Anora, which obtained 5 awards, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Director, Greatest Authentic Screenplay, and Greatest Movie Modifying.Jason felt just like the dialog surrounding nudity in movies is handled otherwise for males than ladies, citing one other main award-winning movie. “It is attention-grabbing that there is a double normal for males,” he mentioned.“However when ladies are bare, Margaret Qualley as effectively, in The Substance, no one would dream of speaking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of these issues. So, it is odd that there is a double normal.”Margaret portrayed Sue in The Substance alongside Demi Moore, who was nominated for Greatest Actress for her position as Elisabeth Sparkle. Each actors have been featured in nude scenes all through the movie.Jason admitted he was dodging the query in regards to the prosthetic penis “as a result of I do not suppose that folks actually need to know the way the sausage is made. Genuinely, I believe it will be odd when there are characters — and among the ladies are bare in right here — it might be odd when you have been sitting right here. And you’ll by no means dream of discussing their genitalia, not for a second.”“Mike White is a superb author; it is one of the best sequence on tv for a very long time. And what’s the obsession with penises? It is an odd factor,” Jason mentioned.A number of followers praised Jason for his response in shutting down the questions in regards to the full-frontal scene.“If you realize Jason Isaacs and his opinions AT ALL you’ll know he is 100% going to name them out on this every time.. and he’ll be proper each time too. No-one should not be asking publicly about anyones physique elements regardless. Good on you Jason! @therealjasonisaacs,” one individual wrote.One other individual mentioned, “Why did you insist on asking about Jason’s penis? He was to name you out on that. I really like listening to your present, however this was a horrible second. He was there to speak about White Lotus, not be questioned about whether or not or not his penis was a prosthetic. Disgrace on you.”Others identified that the therapy of female and male nudity is “extra sophisticated than that.”This individual mentioned, “effectively he has some extent, nevertheless it’s kinda extra sophisticated than that imo. individuals aren’t freaking out over feminine nudity as a result of actually, it has been normalized in movie for ages. in the meantime, male full-frontal nonetheless will get individuals speaking simply because it is rarer. It is not likely a double normal in the best way he is saying nevertheless it’s extra like ladies’s our bodies have been picked aside for therefore lengthy that nobody bats a watch anymore, which is its personal drawback.”It feels like we must always possibly ask first if somebody’s comfy speaking about their physique when it is featured in any type of artwork (pictures, music, motion pictures, TV, and so forth.) Nudity will not be an invite.Good on Jason for making these boundaries clear!