Jason Isaacs feels like a “surrogate father” to his on-screen children in The White Lotus.
The White Lotus star Jason Isaacs
In the banger HBO black comedy-drama anthology series, the 62-year-old actor plays businessman Timothy Ratliff, who is married to Victoria Ratliff (Parker Posey), and they have sons Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), Lochlan (Sam Nivola), and daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook).
Jason told People: “I fell madly in love with Patrick and [Sam Nivola] and [Sarah Catherine Hook] as my fake kids.”
The actor – who is married to actress Emma Hewitt – forgot who his real children were when his daughters Lily, 23, and Ruby, 20, flew out to Thailand to visit him on the set of The White Lotus.
Jason admitted: “When my real daughters came to visit, I said, ‘Let’s go out and eat with the kids,’ and they went, ‘Dad, we’re your kids.
“I’m like, ‘Sorry.'”
Season three of The White Lotus – which sees the Ratliff family, who are from North Carolina, travel to Thailand and are faced with drama and danger throughout their stay at the titular resort – received nine Emmy nominations, with Jason being named in the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category.
Jason lost out on a gong to Tramell Tillman, 40, for his role as Seth Milchick in the Apple TV+ thriller series Severance, and The White Lotus did not win an award for Best Drama Series – with it going to the HBO Max drama The Pitt.
Despite this, Jason said it was nice for some of The White Lotus cast to be reunited at the 77th annual awards bash, which was held at the Peacock Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday (14.09.25).
He said: “It is a lovely reunion. I wish everybody was here.
“Patrick’s shooting in London, my hometown. It’s weird that some people get nominated and other people don’t, people have the most dramatic things to do, but I thought everybody was magnificent in the show.”
Jason – who attended Patrick’s wedding to 28-year-old model Abby Champion in Idaho on September 6 – recently said he “didn’t expect” Patrick, 31, “to be nice” because of his parents, Hollywood legend-and-former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78, and 69-year-old former First Lady of California Maria Shriver.
Jason said on a recent episode of the Table Manners podcast with Jessie Ware, 40, and Lennie Ware: “I didn’t expect Patrick to be nice because he’s the son of a famous movie star, and he’s such a fabulous, grounded person. And all three of them.”
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