April 7, 2025:
A major plot point was cut from The White Lotus season 3 finale!
It was revealed that in the original script, Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) had sex after she left the monastery in Thailand, admitted she had never had sex before, and had a “rom-com” type sex scene. The two characters had not interacted before, so this would have been an unexpected matchup!
However, Mike White revealed it ended up being cut.
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“That part was cut too, which is very disappointing, is that she decides to lose her virginity in the script in the last episode. And she actually has sex with Zion. There’s this whole scene where she’s like, ‘It’s true. Saxon is right about this one thing. I need to get this over with.’ And you know how after she leaves the monastery she’s just like, ‘I need to have sex.’ But in the end, it was one of these things where it was like, it’s already an hour and a half. It would have added 10 minutes to the thing. And it had a little bit of a 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,” Mike shared, via IndieWire.
See how the stars of The White Lotus reacted to the finale.