The three brothers and sisters of Ratliff dispersed in Los Angeles and New York, far from the tropical diseases of Thailand and the third season of “The White Lotus”. They are ready to talk about it – incest, the accents of North Carolina, their deeply fucked up family.
And yet, at a level, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola and Patrick Schwarzenegger will forever remain Piper, Lochlan and Saxon, joined by a hip by a television series whose fans cannot stop talking.
“The three of us are all, we are brothers and sisters for life now,” explains Hook. “We couldn't get rid of each other even if we were trying.”
Not they tried. After a seven-month shoot in and around a luxury hotel in the Gulf of Thailand, it seems that a certain quantity of postpartum desire is still linger.
“We are not even talking about it,” deplores Schwarzenegger.
“Don't spread lies like that,” says Hook. “Patrick sends us SMS every day:” You don't call. ” You don't care about me anymore. Bro, we have just faced last night. »» »
They seem much happier than their characters in the series, which is to be expected. The children of Ratliff, their mother, Victoria (Parker Posey), and their father, Timothy (Jason Isaacs), are examples of sterling of a specialty of “white lotus”: the ugly American abroad, spoiled and without any idea, mogus in a family dysfunction.
“This allowed my character to have this full -fledged existential crisis,” explains Patrick Schwarzenegger of a much discussed festive scene in “The White Lotus”.
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Saxon is the smooth alpha male, vocally on the rhythm of sex, telling his little brother that he needs to drink more protein and man shakes. Lochlan lives in the shadow of his brother, seeking the approval of Saxon when he seems quietly terrified and rejected. Piper seems to be the healthy spirit; She wants to stay in Thailand and spend a year in a Buddhist monastery, far from her family. But under her white guilt, she is finally as attached to the comfort of the creature of American wealth as the rest of her family.
People in good emotional health are about as rare on “The White Lotus” as the cloudy days in paradise. But the creator of the Mike White series does not write caricatures. Ratliffs, with their North Carolina money and the neuroses they generally remain unconscious, are also deeply human. If they weren't, said Nivola, they would be hell to play.
“You should always love your character,” he said. “You must relate to them, because if you do not do, you are simply disconnected and you have no means. (Lochlan has always had a philosophical sequence.)
“You have to relate to them,” said Sam Nivola by playing a character, “because if you don't, you are completely disconnected and you have no way.”
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“The White Lotus” always makes WAG languages, with points of the plot and characters that have become endlessly dissected on the Internet (and in articles like this). The biggest speaker of this season was a trio infused with drugs between Saxon, Lochlan and a local woman, Chloé (Charlotte Le Bon). At one point, Lochlan, always the pleasure of people, notes that his older brother is inactive and decides to give him a hand. Ick.
Once the Blackout fog has endeavored and the shame goes down, Saxon allows rare moments of vulnerability to penetrate its sliding facade. It suddenly seems real. This is why Schwarzenegger was grateful for the most naked conspiracy of the season.
“I'm a little relieved to see how much he played,” he said. “I think I'm a little different from Lochlan, in the sense that my character was so hated by so many people during the first weeks of the season. It was a relief that people started to feel bad for me, or come to have fun.
“People continue to say to me:” Oh, so many opportunities to come “. I say to myself, 'no, dog. This It was an opportunity, ”explains Sarah Catherine Hook.
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The Ratliffs have also been talked about for viewers… Talking. As parents of the family, Isaacs and Posey used thick accents of North Carolina, who tended to slip around some according to the amount of alcohol and anti-animated drugs in play. But children, with the exception of a few vowels open here and there, looked like pretty young generic Americans.
Like everything in the series, it was by design. “We were asked not to have accents, to let the parents have them,” said Hook, born and raised in Alabama (and has no accent). “There is more of this neutral American sound with the young generation, and part of this is only their exhibition to the media. Although I threw some` y'tl '' here and there because it is my thing from the South that I keep with me. “
Now, Hook, Nivola and Schwarzenegger are facing life after “White Lotus” – and a feeling that future projects will find it difficult to live what they have just experienced. “We are screwed up,” said Hook. “What could be better than” The White Lotus? ” People continue to say to me: “Oh, so many opportunities to come”. I say to myself, 'no, dog. This was an opportunity.
They are not only spoiled for future work, but also for future accommodation.
“Hotels F -,” said Nivola. “I just stayed in a Marriott for a month, and I felt like an A – I said to myself:” There is no cold dive! “”
Typical Americans.
Sam Nivola, Sarah Catherine Hook and Patrick Schwarzenneger take advantage of a “white lotus” meeting.
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