Mike White Reveals Intercourse Scene Lower From ‘White Lotus’ Finale

A key scene scrapped from Sunday night time’s Season 3 finale of The White Lotus would have linked two characters in a romantic manner though they by no means shared a single minute of display time.

Scene Would Have Featured Piper Dropping Her Virginity

Within the last episode of the season, we see Piper Ratliff (Sarah Catherine Hook) return from her in a single day keep at a monastery the place she was contemplating to reside for the subsequent yr.

To her mom’s (Parker Posey) reduction, Piper discovered the meals and lodging on the monastery to not be as much as her requirements as a well-off faculty pupil from North Carolina. She’s rewarded with a fast purchasing journey and a few piña coladas constituted of coconut milk that’s “off.”

Whereas the remainder of her household’s story continues through the episode, Piper’s arc largely ends there. The White Lotus author and creator Mike White has revealed there was initially much more deliberate for Piper within the finale.

In an early episode of Season 3, older brother Saxon does his greatest to let everybody know Piper remains to be a virgin. White mentioned through the newest episode of The White Lotus Official Season 3 Podcast that Piper was set to alter that within the finale.

“The half that was reduce, too, which could be very disappointing, is that she decides to lose her virginity within the script within the final episode,” White mentioned.

The scene, by White’s estimation, would have added one other 10 minutes to the already 90-minute episode.

“There’s a complete scene the place she’s like ‘It’s true Saxon’s proper about this one factor. I must get this over with,’” White defined.

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Not solely would the scrapped scene added extra depth to the Piper character, it additionally would have probably intertwined her story with one other particular person on the White Lotus that she by no means crossed paths with all the season.

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White mentioned through the podcast episode that Piper ultimately finds herself within the resort’s restaurant the place she is searching for somebody to have intercourse with. She ultimately zeros in on Zion (Nicholas Duvernay), son of newly-minted millionaire and potential future spa proprietor Belinda (Natasha Rothwell).

“It had a little bit little bit of a rom-com vibe in the midst of, you realize, attempting to kill the household with the pong-pong fruit,” White mentioned. “It simply felt like I used to be attempting to do an excessive amount of.”

HBO introduced in January that it has renewed The White Lotus for a fourth season.