‘White Lotus’ Star Says Filming Threesome Scene Left Him ‘On The Verge Of Passing Out’

Sam Nivola said it took "hours" to film the disturbing and highly-talked about scene.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The White Lotus.”

It turns out “The White Lotus” star Sam Nivola had just as much of a hard time filming the show’s incestuous threesome scene as viewers had watching it.

While speaking with Elite Daily, the 21-year-old actor revealed that he “was on the verge of passing out” at “one point” while filming the scene, which he said “took a couple hours to film.”

In Episode 6 of the Max series’ third season, which aired Sunday, Nivola’s character, Lochlan Ratliff, sleeps with party animal Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) alongside his brother Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) following a drug-filled evening. In an ick-inducing turn of events, Lochlan begins jerking off Saxon during the act.

“I didn’t realize how exhausting it is to have fake sex. I was sort of doing a one-armed plank, with my other hand jerking off Patrick,” Nivola said in the interview published Monday. “It was like doing weight lifting with your right arm while you do a plank, and it lasted for such a long time.”