The white lotus The final of season 3 was shocking, devastating and tragic, but Mike White had just revealed that it could have been even more chaotic. The creator of the show spoke of a particular scene that was left on the floor of the cutting room during the HBOs “The white lotus Official podcast. “This would have left the viewers even more amazed.
White recalled a moment in the script where Piper decides to lose his virginity after leaving the monastery – and that happens with the most unexpected guest.
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“The part that was also cut is that she decides to lose her virginity, in the script, in the last episode, and she actually has sex with Sion,” he explained. “There is a whole scene where it is like:” It’s true, Saxon is right on this only thing, I need to finish that. “After leaving the monastery, she says:” I need sex “and she masks the restaurant.”
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“But it was only one of those things that, the final is already an hour and a half and it would have added ten minutes to the thing,” added White. “And there was a little Rom-Com atmosphere in the middle of trying to kill the family with the Pong-Pong fruits. I just felt like I was trying to do too much narrative.”
In the last episode of the season, Piper recognizes his appreciation for the finest things of life after staying in the monastery for one night. She admits her need for a comfortable life to her parents and changes her air and beliefs. After turning her nose to the raw comments of her older brother Saxon, she would have exchanged places with him if the scene had entered the final cup.
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“At the end, when they are on the boat, she thinks about the way she fucked well and Saxon reads her self-assistance book,” said White. “It’s a reversal.”
It was not the only scenario that was cut. According to Sam Nivola, who played Piper’s younger brother, Lochlan, they filmed several iterations of his imminent death experience. After Lochlan made a smoothie for himself using the remains of the toxic piña Coladas, he vanishes on the pool bridge, where he almost dies. After an underwater sequence, the teenager wakes up in his father’s arms. However, in a different version of the script, his character found himself in a body bag.
“We made a few versions where I was in a body bag and crawling in a body bag in my dream,” said the actor Deadline. “And it was so scary, because I had to be zipped into an airless body bag, then I decompress myself. Of course, it was safe. They would not have put me in a dangerous situation but it was really frightening in a funny way.”
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