‘White Lotus’ Star Jason Isaacs on Timothy’s ‘Suicidal’ Abyss and Why Meryl Streep Should Play Lucius Malfoy in the ‘Harry Potter’ Series

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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 6 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.

Jason Isaacs is fashionably late to our Zoom interview, but only because he got caught up gabbing with another journalist. “I’m just yakking on for too long,” the “White Lotus” star says. “I know they want a short answer, and I suddenly find myself talking, trapped in a web of my own making.” Before we get going, though, he inquires about the myriad Polaroids on my wall, before asking bluntly: “You’ve seen six episodes.

Who dies?” I tell him my prediction, and he humors me: “I love your theory. But I have a pretty good poker face. You’ll never get it from me.” He does offer a potential hint at who winds up six feet under in Season 3 of the HBO dramedy. “Mike White doesn’t do justice,” Isaacs says of the series creator’s motivations. “He’s not Agatha Christie, it’s not like the person who we want to die will die by popular vote.

He does whatever he finds interesting.” All that is to say this is a comprehensive interview, one in which Isaacs goes deep on playing the Southern patriarch Timothy Ratliff, whose life begins to fall apart while on vacation in Thailand after he gets word that journalists have uncovered some of his shady business dealings, and the FBI raids his office.