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&34;It was just funnier the second time,&34; Isaacs tells EW of his second fullfrontal scene that didn't make it into the episode. Jason Isaacs reveals White Lo

"It was just funnier the second time," Isaacs tells EW of his second full-frontal scene that didn't make it into the episode.

Jason Isaacs reveals White Lotus cut scenes include another full-frontal moment, shares behind-the-scenes pics (exclusive)

"It was just funnier the second time," Isaacs tells EW of his second full-frontal scene that didn't make it into the episode.

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Published on August 19, 2025 07:39PM EDT

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There was a lot more of Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) than what viewers saw on *The White Lotus* season 3 — literally.

Isaacs tells ** that he filmed a lot of scenes as the spiraling Ratfliff patriarch that were ultimately cut for time, including *another* full-frontal moment.

"There was a second flash in the scene where I flash in my bathrobe," Isaacs tells EW. "It was quite funny. The conversation carried on and I stood up again and the thing flashed open and they all went, '*Daaaddd*!' It was just funnier the second time. I knew it was, but you didn't need the rest of the scene. That, I was bummed about."

The actor reveals that other cut scenes of his include a lot of "gags" for his character.

"[I was] dressed as a monk, and I run away through the jungle and then I turn into a monk," Isaacs says. "I was really bummed by one gag I lost when we landed at the beginning and Christian [Friedel] said, 'How was your journey?' And I said something like, 'Long layover, but hey, flew commercial, saving the planet,' which is somehow I wanted credit for not flying private like I normally do. I loved that line."

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Throughout the season, Tim dreamed a lot about taking his own life to avoid facing the legal storm awaiting him back home after the FBI investigated a money laundering scheme from his past. He also daydreamed about killing his wife, Victoria (Parker Posey), first, before turning the gun on himself, to spare her from having to endure losing all their wealth and status. Isaacs tells EW that he also filmed a scene where Tim thought about killing their eldest son, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger).

"I remember when we shot it, Patrick's fiancée was in the villa next door and she overheard it," Isaacs recalls. "She didn't want to know [what happened in the episodes] and she hadn't read the scripts, but when Patrick came back, she told him, 'I know how it ends.' And the whole time watching it, she thought it ended with me shooting Patrick."

For his work on this season that did actually make it into the episodes, Isaacs is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama at this year's Emmy Awards. He's nominated alongside his *White Lotus* costars Walton Goggins and Sam Rockwell, as well as James Marsden (*Paradise*), and *Severance* stars Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, and John Turturro (*Severance*).

"I can't watch myself or think about myself — I think other people on my behalf submitted episode 8 [for the Emmys]," Isaacs says. "That [finale] was quite an interesting acting challenge for me, because I had so few words and I was out of my head for four or five episodes, and yet I had this massive inner journey. But I looked like an extra from a Cheech and Chong movie a lot of the time."

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The eventful finale featured Tim attempting to kill his family with poison, with the intention to spare his youngest son, Lochlan (Sam Nivola), who had previously said he could imagine living without money. But Tim changed his mind at the last second. Unfortunately, Lochlan made a smoothie out of the used, unwashed, poison-tainted blender the next morning, passed out, and seemed to have died, but miraculously survived in Tim's arms. Against all odds, the Ratliffs left the White Lotus alive, but as they turned on their phones while leaving, Tim warned them that everything was about to change.

"He was suicidal. By the end of episode 8, he's complete. He's whole," Isaacs says of his character's fate. "I remember Mike saying, 'Some people just go on holiday for a week, they don't change that much. But for Tim, it's an entire personality change.' Literally everything in his world had changed by the time he is on the boat at the end, embodying Buddhist principles and accepting fate and being one with mankind and surrendering everything. So I don't know if it was him unraveling — in many ways it was the raveling of him. He found a way through life which is going to be better for him. I don't know how it's going to be for the family — that's another show."

As for whether Isaacs wants to continue telling that particular story in another season of* The White Lotus*, he quips, "The comedy version is *Schitt's Creek*, but I'm not sure [creator] Mike [White]'s got the spare time to write it. I wish he would... I would do Mike White's shopping list in dinner theater. A.I. is coming for a lot of people's jobs, but it's not coming for his job."

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

He continues, "The reason that, three seasons in a row, there've been all these nominations for various different awards, it comes down to one man and his imagination only. So yeah, if you're asking me if I would ever be in a Mike White show again, yeah! I'd clean his car for him."**

But for now, Isaacs is satisfied with leaving Tim's story where it ends in the finale.

"I think he ends it absolutely perfectly," the actor says. "[The Ratliffs] are all completely different, so different things will happen to all of them. But it's not going to be easy, that's for sure. I'm not telling you [what happens next] — I know what I think, but it's not for me to tell anyone else."

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During his seven months in Thailand filming season 3, Isaacs took "thousands of pictures" that he hasn't shared anywhere ... until now. The actor chose his favorites to debut exclusively on EW (above and below), including the time he "split [his] head open" while filming on a yacht, his last day on set, and ... a headless man?

"The fourth person in the picture is the person we called Secret Jon, because no one could know that John Gries was there until the show came out," Isaacs reveals. "So anytime we took a picture with Jon, we had to block his head out. Jon is the headless creature there."

Check out more of Isaacs' behind-the-scenes photos below:

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

Jason Isaacs shares exclusive photos from the set of 'The White Lotus'.

The 77th Emmys will take place Sunday, Sep. 14, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+, hosted by Nate Bargatze.

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