Like any other season of The White Lotus, season 3 featured a lot of sex. But there was almost even MORE in the finale! Between two very unlikely characters!
Warning: spoilers ahead!
The HBO drama wrapped up its third installment on Sunday night, leaving a LOT of fans in shambles after the shocking deaths of multiple characters. But originally, the plan was to shock viewers in another way, too. Creator Mike White appeared on Sunday’s episode of The White Lotus Official Podcast, where he revealed Sarah Catherine Hook’s character Piper Ratliff was supposed to hook up with Nicholas Duvernay’s character Zion Lindsey! Yes, Saxon and Lochlan’s sister was supposed to do the deed with Belinda’s son — which would have been the Ratliff daughter’s first time!
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Expressing disappointment over the decision to cut it, Mike shared:
“The part that was cut, which is very disappointing, is that she decides to lose her virginity in the script in the last episode, and she actually has sex with Zion, which is Belinda’s son … There’s a whole scene where she’s like, ‘It’s true. … I need to get this over with.”
Apparently, Piper was supposed to have an epiphany about losing her v-card while spending the night at the Buddhist monastery. But the addition would have tacked on 10 extra minutes to the already hour-and-a-half-long episode, and Mike felt the rom-com tone wouldn’t have fit the overall darker episode. He explained:
“I was trying to do too much narratively.”
The scene would have come “in the middle of [Timothy, played by Jason Isaacs] trying to kill the family with the pong pong fruits.”
Wow, we would not have seen that coming! We mean, Piper and Zion didn’t have any interactions outside of that proposed hookup! But it definitely would have been a call back to a previous conversation she had with her brother, who accused her of being a virgin.
Would YOU have liked Mike to keep that in the episode, Perezcious readers?? Let us know in the comments down below!
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