The White Lotus' Murray Bartlett on playing a control freak who's 'lost his s---' and that shocking sex scene

Murray BartlettandLukas Gageknew they had to dosomethingjaw-dropping for their two-person party scene in the fourth episode ofThe White Lotus.

It gives Shane this incredible fuel for his take-down of Armond."

“[He] said, ‘Can we do that?'”

‘The White Lotus’ star Murray Bartlett on playing a control freak.Apple TV+ (2); Mario Perez/HBO

the actor recalls, laughing.

“I wasn’t prepared for how intenseSydney Sweeney’s character would be.

She was scary,” he says, laughing, of her college-aged Olivia.

Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage on ‘The White Lotus.'.Mario Perez/HBO