The White Lotus S3 Team Gets Rs 4.3 Cr Offer From NSFW Site For Deleted Sex Scene: ‘This Will Be A Hit’
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An NSFW website offers Rs 4.3 crore for a deleted The White Lotus Season 3 sex scene featuring Piper and Zion, calling it “a hit”.
Stills from The White Lotus Season 3 [Pic Courtesy: Instagram]
Just days after The White Lotus Season 3 finale aired, buzz surrounding the HBO hit continues to grow, especially after series creator Mike White revealed a now-deleted sex scene involving two characters that fans never saw coming.
On the official White Lotus post-show podcast, White dropped the bombshell that a scene featuring Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) was originally part of the script but ultimately didn’t make it into the 90-minute finale. In the cut scene, Piper, sister to the infamous Ratliff twins, loses her virginity to Belinda’s son, Zion, after a failed monastery retreat prompts her to “take control” of her life.
White explained why the moment was axed: “It would have added 10 minutes to the thing. And it had a little bit of rom-com vibe in the middle of trying to kill the family with the pong-pong fruits. It just felt like I was trying to do too much narratively.”
Despite the creator’s decision, there’s major outside interest in the unseen footage. An adult content site has reportedly offered up to $500,000 (approximately Rs 4.3 crore) to HBO Max for the exclusive rights to the deleted scene. But that’s not all—the site is also open to paying Hook and Duvernay the same amount to either do a live Q&A or reenact the scene for fans, a spokesperson for the company told Men’s Journal.
“We’ve all heard the whispers—there’s a juicy, deleted scene from The White Lotus Season 3 that hornball fans are dying to see,” wrote Daryn Parker, VP of CamSoda, in a letter to HBO Max. “We know she’s hiding her inner freak and we want to unleash it.”
Parker added that the platform’s audience would welcome a racier experience of the show. “Our audience is full of fans looking to experience the show in a new and exciting way, and we know this will be a hit.”
So far, there’s been no official response from HBO Max or the cast involved. Whether the deleted scene remains in the vault or resurfaces through another route remains to be seen but clearly, fans (and certain companies) aren’t done with The White Lotus just yet.
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