Jason Isaacs shut down the controversy about his full frontal scene on The White Lotus throughout an interview on CBS Mornings.
The actor made an look on the daytime present and Gayle King introduced up the controversy on social media wether Isaacs used a prostethic penis on the HBO drama.
“Lots of people are debating it. It’s everywhere in the web,” Isaacs stated when he was requested if he used a prosthetic for his nude scene.
King famous that he had not answered the query, to which Isaacs stated, “I’ll inform you why as a result of the very best actress this 12 months is Mikey Madison on the Oscars and I don’t see anybody discussing her vulva, which is on tv on a regular basis and I’m not speaking about Swedish vehicles.”
“I feel it’s attention-grabbing that there’s a double commonplace for males, however when girls are bare, Margaret Qualley in The Substance, nobody would dream of speaking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of these issues,” he continued. “So, it’s odd that there’s a double commonplace.”
Isaacs acknowledged dodging the query “as a result of I don’t suppose that individuals actually wish to know the way the sausage is made,” including, “I genuinely suppose it might be odd when there are characters — and among the girls are bare in right here — it’d be odd should you have been sitting right here. And you’d by no means dream of discussing their genitalia, not for a second.”
CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil added that that they had been debating concerning the prostethic penis all morning.
Isaacs requested, “What’s your obsession?” including, “Mike White is an excellent author; it’s the very best sequence on tv for a very long time. And what’s the obsession with penises? It’s an odd factor.”
Watch the total interview beneath.
