The White Lotus casting director reveals how many actors dropped out over shows uncomfortable incest storyline

Viewers who tuned in to watch “The White Lotus” Season 3 were not the only ones with reservations about the show’s surprising incest scenes between brothers Lochlan and Saxon Ratliff.According to the show’s casting director, Meredith Tucker, actors who auditioned for the roles of Lochlan and Saxon dropped out because they were “uncomfortable” with the incestuous material.“For that stuff with the brothers, we had to tell people beforehand,” Tucker revealed to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.“We said, ‘There is going to be some same-sex kissing and stuff.

Are you comfortable with that?’”“I think maybe one kid for Sam’s role dropped out,” she continued, “but some of these kids were barely 18, so I could understand.”Although Sam Nivola, 21, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, 31, ultimately landed the respective roles of Lochlan and Saxon, there were still concerns that the pair might also drop out upon reading the scripts for the brotherly incest scenes.“When we sent the scripts to Patrick and Sam, Mike and I were both like, ‘I hope they don’t drop out,’” producer David Bernad said of himself and “The White Lotus” creator Mike White.“Mike made me text Patrick.

We were anxious.”However, Nivola shared he had no problem hooking up with his fictional on-screen brother – even if he was “not expecting” it at first.“When they sent me my contract, it was like, ‘You have to be comfortable with sexually explicit scenes or whatever,'” he told THR.“And I was like, ‘Sure, yeah, I’ve never really done anything like that on camera — first time for everything.’ But I was not expecting that!”“It makes sense for the story, and it makes sense practically, and sort of metaphorically in a sad way for my character.

But that was the first time I’ve ever even kissed anyone on camera,” Nivola continued.“I think it went as smoothly as that kind of thing can possibly go.”“I mean, I don’t have anything to c...