Jason Isaacs has loose lips \u2013 and this time he’s not even talking about The White Lotus.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/imago807037227-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Jason Isaacs on stage at The 100th Mark Kermode in 3D on Monday 10 March 2025″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] The dust has settled on an explosive, divisive and hugely entertaining third season of The White Lotus<\/em>. It\u2019s been two months since the blood-ridden finale and almost every cast member has said their piece, dropped hints about what the show was like to work on and gushed about their co-stars, boosting their profiles in the process. Then there\u2019s Jason Isaacs.<\/p>\n The Liverpudlian actor, perhaps best known for his turn as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter<\/em> series, is a little looser lipped than his colleagues. Not only has he had plenty to say about The White Lotus<\/em> backstage dynamics, the salary equity and, of course, his prosthetic penis, but he\u2019s recently done an interview with Vulture<\/em> appropriately titled, \u2018Jason Isaacs might say too much.’<\/p>\n So, what exactly did he say? Before the Thailand-set series aired, Isaacs, who played the disgraced businessman Tim Ratliff, told The Guardian<\/em>, \u2018There\u2019s no question that sometimes it is absolutely fabulous and sometimes it\u2019s Lord of the Flies<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n Fast forward to April when the series ended Isaacs told Vulture<\/em> that there was an off-screen White Lotus<\/em> with \u2018fewer deaths but just as much drama\u2019. He likened production to a \u2018theatre camp\u2019 but also \u2018an open prison camp\u2019. The actor added, \u2018Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost.\u2019<\/p>\n Naturally, until their own joint Variety<\/em> interview at the start of June, viewers were likely to suspect Isaacs was referring to Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood. They played on-screen partners Rick and Chelsea in season three, who both perished in the final episode, but it was their off-screen relationship that piqued interest. Goggins, for his part, shared an 18-slide Instagram Story of his time with Wood set to \u2018Silver Springs\u2019 by Fleetwood Mac \u2013 the song about Stevie Nicks and band guitarist Lindsey Buckingham\u2019s breakup \u2013\u00a0after the final episode. That would have been intense enough if Goggins hadn\u2019t also gushed about Wood in a press interview and then unfollowed her on Instagram.<\/p>\n Anyway, it turns out Goggins is just an incredibly earnest guy, and he and Wood remain good friends. As for the unfollow, Goggins explained that part of his process of saying goodbye to a character is to shed all traces of them from his personal life, which included unfollowing Wood on social media, apparently.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] In Isaacs\u2019 most recent Vulture<\/em> interview, he said a little more about his time in Thailand, but still not enough to land him in hot water. When asked about his relationship with his onscreen wife, Parker Posey, he simply said: \u2018She\u2019s Parker Posey. She\u2019s everything you think she would be.\u2019 When asked about the hullabaloo surrounding the scene when his character flashed his penis at breakfast, which turned out to be a prosthetic penis, he said, \u2018Other people thought I was bothered by it. I thought that was funny.\u2019 He then admitted his strategy of joking about it as a way of diffusing the story backfired. \u2018I thought that would kill it and instead it made that be the only thing people asked me about for a week until the brothers\u2019 hand job came along.\u2019<\/p>\n Next up came a question about the infamous White Lotus<\/em> salaries \u2013 all stars are paid $40,000 per episode, which is surprisingly low by global hit TV show standards. Isaacs was the first to admit that the salary is still \u2018ridiculously disproportionate\u2019 to what actors do, which is why he doesn\u2019t like discussing or complaining about it, but it is a comparatively \u2018very low price\u2019. The Hood<\/em> actor admitted, \u2018The fact is, we would have paid to be in it.\u2019<\/p>\n ‘Everyone is treated the same on\u00a0The White Lotus<\/em>,’ producer David Bernad told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘They get paid the same, and we do alphabetical billing, so you\u2019re getting people who want to do the project for the right reasons, not to quote\u00a0The Bachelor<\/em>.\u00a0It\u2019s a system we developed in the first season because there was no money to make the show.’<\/p>\n However, the juiciest part of the interview was not even about The White Lotus<\/em>, even if Isaacs has dropped heavy hints that he\u2019s sitting on salacious BTS stories. Instead, it was about another actor, or rather actors, that he has worked with in the past. Isaacs was reminded of the time he told an interviewer that a prominent actor pushed him out of the shot while working on a film. \u2018Oh Jesus,\u2019 he replied. \u2018Did worse than that. Was the worst bully ever and a global icon. [\u2026] It sucked. I\u2019d never seen anything like it. Before, I would\u2019ve licked the ground that this person walked on.\u2019<\/p>\n Unfortunately, according to Isaacs, poor behaviour from A-listers is far from uncommon. \u2018It\u2019s selfishness, cruelty, bullying, or people complaining to the person who\u2019s getting them dressed, who doesn\u2019t get in a year what they earn in a day to pick their filthy underwear off the floor. That, or not turning up, or going home early, or thinking they know better than the director, or being on crack and calling prostitutes to their trailer,\u2019 he went on. \u2018I come across all that stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n Even so, Isaacs might shame, but he certainly doesn\u2019t name. At least not yet. He said he\u2019s not \u2018stupid\u2019 enough to \u2018even give hints\u2019 about who said industry villains are, despite plenty of memoir offers over the years. \u2018Not in a million f**king years until everybody is dead,\u2019 is his response, admitting that he fantasises about doing a junket and \u2018telling the truth\u2019, but wouldn\u2019t dream of doing so until he\u2019s won the lottery. \u2018There is no value, other than masochism and sabotage, in telling people the truth about people I\u2019ve worked with or experiences I\u2019ve had. Acting is all about secrets.\u2019<\/p>\n Isaacs is perhaps the worst kind of secret keeper of all. He is keen to tell us just how many secrets he\u2019s sitting on, and quite how salacious they are, but he has no interest in elaborating. If this is all subliminal promo for a forthcoming memoir, however, then it\u2019s working \u2013 and we\u2019ll be the first in line.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He also shared how much everyone got paid for The White Lotus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11054,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions\/11054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘Not in a million f**king years until everybody is dead.’ \u2013 Jason Isaacs<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]