Jason Isaacs has opened up about his relationship with his former White Lotus co-star Parker Posey.
The pair played married couple Tim and Victoria Ratliff in the most recent season of the satirical US drama, for which most of the cast spent around seven months shooting in Thailand.
While promoting The White Lotus, the former Harry Potter star has repeatedly spoken highly of his on-screen children, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola, but during a new interview with Vulture, it was pointed out that he’s been less forthcoming about Parker.
Asked what she was like to work with, he said simply: “She’s Parker Posey. She’s everything you think she would be.”
Pressed further, he explained: “She was playing someone out of her head, so she was given licence to be bonkers. And then I’m playing someone out of my head. So I didn’t really look at her or talk to her or listen to her because I’m so much in my own tunnel.”
“So I can’t really tell you what it’s like to interact with her too much,” he admitted.
Last month, The Sun published a piece – following claims apparently first made in the Daily Mail – alleging that Jason and Parker were embroiled in an on-set feud while they made the show.
HuffPost UK contacted both actors’ representatives for comment at the time, but did not receive a response.
During a wide-ranging piece in The Guardian published before the latest season began airing, Jason said of the filming process: “There’s no question that sometimes it is absolutely fabulous, and sometimes it’s Lord of the Flies.”
He continued: “There are tensions and difficulties, I don’t know if they spilled from on screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway.
“There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke. It’s a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows.”
“I can’t pretend I wasn’t involved in some off-screen drama,” he claimed, later adding: “We’ll all see one other again [for the premiere] and I’m sure we’ll be hugging and kissing and remembering it fondly. But there were times when things were not quite so fond.”
All three seasons of The White Lotus are streaming on Now and Sky in the UK.
