What Only The Biggest Fans Know About The White Lotus

Another memorable scene in the debut episode of the second "White Lotus" season involved Theo James' character, Cameron, changing out of a wet bathing suit in view of his friend's wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza). Viewers received an eyeful of James in that full-frontal nude scene — or so they thought. 

Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," James revealed that wasn't actually his anatomy that viewers saw. "It's a pee-pee prosthetic," he said. In fact, he explained, he had specifically requested that the prosthetic member be an average size — which turned out not to be the case. "We get to set and she's got, like, a hammer or something," James recalled. "I mean, it's bigger than that. It's like she stole it off a donkey in the field. The thing is ginormous. And me and the director, Mike White, are sitting there going, 'That's ... average, is it?'"

As James told Entertainment Weekly, the prosthetically enhanced full-frontal nude scene was also filmed in a far more explicit manner than what eventually ended up onscreen. "We shot that and it felt too much, too aggressive," he explained. "What we came to is a bit more opaque, and that's exactly what Mike does so well. You're never sure 100% of the characters' intentions."