Sam Nivola, the 21-year-old breakout star of this year’s third season of The White Lotus , has reflected on becoming an improbable sex symbol.

Nivola played the unassuming ingénue Lochlan Ratliff in The White Lotus , the youngest of the family’s three children. Yet his naivety and eagerness to impress his older brother Saxon ( Patrick Schwarzenegger ) led him to the season’s most outrageous storyline: incest.

The midway point of season three saw the brothers kiss as part of a drunken dare , before they wound up in bed next to one another, with Lochlan giving his brother a hand job.

Unsurprisingly, it made quite a few headlines at the time, and made Sam Nivola a star on the rise.

“When The White Lotus was at its peak, I literally couldn’t walk down the street in Brooklyn – my hometown –

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