‘The White Lotus’: Murray Bartlett, Mike White and Jake Lacy Break Down Armond’s Pivotal Poop Scene
variety.comEthan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the sixth episode of “The White Lotus” Season 1, titled “Departures.”“The White Lotus” opens with a coffin being loaded onto a plane but doesn’t address the death looming over the series until its final episode.Learning he is about to be fired from his job as hotel manager, Armond (Murray Bartlett) goes on a drug binge and saunters over to the Pineapple Suite, which has finally been relinquished to “special chosen baby child” Shane (Jake Lacy), who is downstairs wrapping up a tumultuous honeymoon.
Armond enters the suite, peeks around and swiftly unbuttons his pants to defecate in Shane’s open suitcase.“It’s a weird combination of Armond being out of his mind but also firmly rooted in his power,” Bartlett says.
Pairing Bartlett’s bare behind with Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s cinematic score, the scene is shockingly graphic. But before the viewer has time to digest what went down, Shane enters the room and Armond retreats inside a closet.
As Shane notices the “turd” in his luggage, Armond tries to escape. Shane hears a noise, picks up the pineapple knife, skulks toward the bathroom, turns a corner and plunges a knife in Armond, who then bleeds out in the bathtub.“I’m not a scatological person, nor am I trying to push envelopes in that particular graphic way.
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