That ‘White Lotus’ Threesome Scene Was Even More Awkward To Film Than You Think

© – HBO's Michael Imperioli explains the intricacies of a hot tub ménage à trois when your real wife is upstairs.

Mike White 's drama White Lotus showed more complex relationship dynamics in its second season, and in episode 2, Michael Imperioli's character Dominic has a threesome in a hot tub with call girl Lucia (Simone Tabasco) and her friend Mia (Béatrice Grannot). . ). ). It was an unfortunate experience for the former Sopranos actor, whose real-life wife Victoria lived in the same building.

"We live and work in the Palazzo di San Domenico in Taormina , Sicily, and it's absolutely amazing until one night it gets weird because I have to shoot a scene where my Menagerie troi character is in a jacuzzi and I have two Italian colleagues, stars. my big self, Simone Tabasco and Beatrice Grannot, who are fantastic actresses," Imperioli told Jimmy Phelan .

But the shoot was so far away and we were friends at the time, now we had to shoot this bathtub sex scene, so we did it in a big hotel room and Mike showed us how it worked and we went out on the terrace. And I realize that the wife I'm sleeping with is right in that hot tub. My room is right above this jacuzzi… When he wakes up, he will look out the window and see me completely naked with two of my Italian colleagues working out in the jacuzzi.''

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"That scene was pretty embarrassing," he continued. "Now I'm worried that my wife is looking out the window. And I'm really stressed… I think Mike is, you know, a whirlwind. I don't think Dominique is a whirlwind."

“So we shot the scene, I saw, I thought a light would fall through the window. Fortunately, we did. But then I thought, oh, he doesn't want to film the scene because now he knows his team, we're all together, wait until he comes back to go upstairs, 5 o'clock in the morning, I walk into the room, it's dark, I'm brushing my teeth, I go to sleep, he wakes up. Good. Is it a long night? Yes. .. are you tired? Yes, quite tired. Is it difficult? Not at all!"

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