Sam Nivola on the Blender and Which White Lotus Season 3 Finale Fan Theory Was Right
"You scared us!" Jimmy Fallon told the actor, whose character Lochlan Ratliff had a close call in the last episode.
Warning — spoilers for the White Lotus Season 3 finale ahead!
Regardless how you felt about Lochlan Ratliff, the impressionable youngest sibling of a family at the center of White Lotus Season 3, watching him have a poolside (very) near-death experience was a stressful experience. And the secondhand anxiety began when viewers saw him using the obviously-dirty blender his father Timothy filled with poison seeds the night before.
Though the show's finale aired days ago on April 6, White Lotus cast member Sam Nivola told Jimmy Fallon he's already been asked why his character did that "probably a thousand times already." And he'd like to defend Lochlan's choices.
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Sam Nivola on why Lochlan Ratliff used that dirty blender
"You scared us!" Fallon told Nivola, speaking for White Lotus fans.
"I scared myself," Nivola joked.
As for why, as Fallon put it, Lochlan would "make a shake out of a dirty blender," Nivola has an explanation.
"I was expecting that [Lochlan's brother] Saxon had made a protein shake in it," Nivola offered. "I didn't know — I thought it was just leftover protein. So I'm like, "You know what? A little extra protein never hurt anybody."
So as he sees it, Lochlan thought it must have been cleaned after Timothy rethought the poisoned piña coladas the night before (uh, who in this family would've washed it out themselves?!).
"I'm not that much of an idiot!" Nivola joked.
Sam Nivola confirms Chelsea's "bad things happen in threes" line was foreshadowing
Either way, his character was luckier than several others in the finale, which viewers watched to finally learn who the body was at the beginning of the season.
"When you're reading online and looking at fan theories of what's going to happen with the show, was anyone right?" Fallon asked.
Nivola said he didn't dive deep into fan speculation, but "the one that I saw that was right is the 'rule of threes' thing."
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"I don't know if anyone saw that, but someone posted a theory that was like, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) says in the beginning, 'bad things come in threes.'"
"And there's the three kids and the three women and all these threes," Nivola continued. "Three people die!"
Chelsea is among the three who meet a violent end, and actress Aimee Lou Wood told Seth Meyers she kept the secret for two years. The British actress — who also revealed Chelsea was originally supposed to be American — had a hilariously colorful way of describing what it felt like to keep mum about the deaths as the finale approached.
"Like, I found out when I was 29 years old. I'm 31 now," Wood said on Late Night the week ahead of the finale. "So I need it to be over now — 'cause I've got that thing like, when you need the loo and you're in the car, and then you see -- and you've made it the whole journey— but then you see the front door and you think, 'I can't do the five more steps to the front door!' That's how I feel."
