‘White Lotus’ star Jason Isaacs cheekily speaks out on full-frontal scene: ‘Go big or go home’

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Jason Isaacs gave everything he had to his role in “The White Lotus” — and he means everything.

The actor bared all in Sunday’s episode of the hit HBO show, in which he plays Timothy Ratliff, a wealthy businessman on the brink of ruin.

In an attempt to manage his stress on vacation in Thailand, Isaacs’ character popped a few prescription pills before joining his co-stars Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook in nothing but a robe.

However, as he leaned back in his seat, his robe split open, fully exposing himself to his fictional family — and millions of viewers.

Jason Isaacs addressed his full-frontal scene in “The White Lotus.” The actor bared all in Episode 4 of the hit HBO series.

“Yeah, it is now in my contract for every show I do, so we’ll see,” Isaacs, 61, jokingly told Entertainment Weekly about the full-frontal scene in Season 3.

“It’ll get easier, hopefully,” he added.

Schwarzenegger — who previously stripped down in the series — jokingly cut in, “You should be asking what it was like for us to watch it!”

Isaacs teased that the episode is just the beginning of his character’s downward spiral.

Isaacs jokingly told Entertainment Weekly that nudity “is now in [his] contract for every show” he does. Fabio Lovino/HBO In the scene, he flashed Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook. HBO

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“It was actually quite challenging — I remember reading the scripts thinking, ‘Wow, I’ve got to keep my powder dry for five or six episodes, and then this s—t really kicks off,'” he reflected.

“… I just remember thinking, ‘I better dig deep and produce something here,’ because there’s a lot of parts you can go through and tell a very dramatic story without your character going through anything extreme. But there’s some big, old acting coming up.”

The “Patriot” star poured all his energy into trying to perfect the character and still does not “know how [he] pulled it off.”

Isaacs plays a successful Southern businessman whose life takes a sharp turn. AFP via Getty Images The actor said there were “some inner gear changes required” to play the complex character. FilmMagic for HBO

Isaacs had to “access” a level of “mania and a terror” as authentically as possible while simultaneously replacing his British accent with a Southern one — admittedly modeled after “Southern Charm” star Thomas Ravenel.

“You’ve got to get there,” he said. “I mean, you’ve got to be as real as you can. And yeah, there was some inner gear changes required.

“The audience will see whether I did or not. It’ll be up to them to judge, but I just remember thinking, ‘I’ve got to go big — go big or go home.'”

And that he did.

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