“The White Lotus” star Jason Isaacs finds all the attention paid to his full frontal nude scene in the HBO show “odd” — especially because there seems to be a double standard at play. During an interview on “CBS Mornings” Friday, Isaacs told hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson that “it’s interesting that there’s a double standard for men.”
Things started when King asked, “Was that you or was that a prosthetic? Because we were debating it.”
Isaacs appeared willing to entertain the conversation to a point. “A lot of people were debating it. It’s all over the internet,” he answered, before King pointed out, “You didn’t answer the question!”
“Well, I’ll tell you why,” Isaacs bounced back. “Because the Best Actress this year was Mikey Madison at the Oscars, and I don’t see anybody discussing her vulva, which is on [screen] all the time.”
“I think it’s interesting that there’s a double standard for men,” he continued. “Margaret Qualley as well, in ‘The Substance’ — nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. And so it’s odd that there’s a double standard.”
It’s worth noting that both Madison and Qualley gave several interviews in which nudity and sex were a key part of the conversation. “Ani is a sex worker. Nudity is just naturally a part of that and it’s a part of her work. I always approached it as, ‘Well, this is her job.’ This is what she does. And she’s a professional. She’s good at her job, and I am, too,” Madison told TheWrap in February.
“I wanted it to be a realistic portrayal,” she also said. “I didn’t want it to be glamorized. I didn’t want it to be sensationalized or dramatized in a negative way. I wanted it to just reflect what is honest. And the honest truth of being a sex worker is that your body is your work and your skin is your costume. Ani is comfortable with that and so was I.”
In September 2024, Qualley openly discussed wearing prosthetic breasts in “The Substance.” She told the Sunday Times, “Unfortunately there is no magic boob potion, so we had to glue those on. Coralie [Fargeat] found an incredible prosthetic team to endow me with the rack of a lifetime, just not my lifetime.”
The CBS team also accused Isaacs of attempting to dodge the question, something he agreed with. “It is a dodge, because I don’t think that people really wanna know how the sausage is made,” the actor explained.
But Isaacs’ “White Lotus” co-stars Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola let the cat out of the bag: he did indeed wear a prosthetic penis.
“That wasn’t his real penis,” Nivola said, with Hook chiming in that “it was a prosthetic.”
Watch the interview with Isaacs in the video above.
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