New episode of ‘The White Lotus’ (the fifth of season 2 already) and the characters are falling into the romantic and sexual enchantment of the island from Sicily. And among the great moments of this week we have come across a small twist within the plot of Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge).
Eye, obviouslyhere will be spoilers of ‘That’s love’, the 2×05 episode of the HBO Max series, so continue under your responsibility. And it is that the episode ended with a sleepless Tanya walking through the monumental palace of her hosts, the wealthy Quentin (Tom Hollander).
What we do in the shadows
We were surprised when the woman opens a door and sees Jack (Leo Woodall), who had been attached to Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) all day. having sex… with her uncle Quentin. Or, at least, his relationship is something that we were told in the fourth episode. That they are truly family “We’ll see”says Mike White.
Speaking with Variety, Mike White, the creator of ‘The White Lotus’ wanted to talk about this scene. One that he, he recognizes, is an echo of the one from season 1 (1×04) with Armond (Murray Bartlett) and Dillon (Lukas Gage). The main idea, according to him, is to make him again something transgressive sex:
“As a guy who’s kind of gay, there’s a joy in doing transgressive gay sex again. It’s dirty… men having sex and you have this Psycho music going around. It just amuses me. I think transgressive sex is sexier. I guess I’m old school. There’s this gothic thing about walking through a hotel or a haunted house and people having sex behind closed doors.”
On the other hand, the participants of the sequence, Tom Hollander and Leo Woodall have also shared their impressions with this scene. The former revealed that he already knew about this relationship from the beginning, while the latter found out a couple of weeks after he was given the role:
“When I heard about the scene, I was speechless for a while. I’m a big fan of Tom and when I heard he was going to play my uncle I was like, “It’s not real.” And when I found out that he was going to fuck me too, that was surreal. Everything that Mike White does with this series is perfect, so there were no issues with it. It seemed like an amazing “wow” moment.”
‘The White Lotus’ face the latest episodes of the season and in the future it seems that this is not the only situation to be resolved. We also get that warning of romance between the Aubrey Plaza and Theo James characters and even Valentina seems to have someone on her heart.