Exclusive: The White Lotus star on mega wealth, the MAGA divide and Brits in America

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The White Lotus - now in its third series has proved a recipe for a smash hit. Take a fabulously wealthy bunch of characters. Make most of them dreadful. And watch them fight it out in a tropical paradise. We’re joined in today’s episode by one of this series stars, Jason Isaacs AKA Tim Ratliff, to discuss whether getting roles now depends on your political persuasions. And whether it pays to be outspoken in MAGA America.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.8	This is a global player original podcast. You don't need me to say this, but that is the compelling music from the spellbinding White Lotus, which is reaching its climax, where the American father, Tim Ratliff's life is going to
0:40.4	hell. And he is played by the brilliant English actor Jason Isaacs. Yeah, we're going to be
0:46.2	speaking to Jason Isaacs on the show. And White Lotus is something that really gets under the
0:53.2	skin of America's elite. You might say in the age of Trump,
0:57.8	although it was made before he got elected, you will find Jimbrose, you'll find mega yachts,
1:03.0	you'll find very, very awkward conversations. And we speak to Jason Isaacs today about what it was
1:10.6	like to make White Lotus and what it is to be an actor in 2025 having to pick aside in Trump's America.
1:20.5	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:25.1	The Newsagents.
1:26.7	It's John. It's John.
1:27.7	It's Emily.
1:28.6	And White Lotus, this is the season three, I think it is.
1:32.2	We've had a season in an exotic Hawaii hotel where bad things happen.
1:37.1	They then went to Sicily, different cast, one or two overlapping.
1:40.0	Again, bad things happen.
1:41.7	And now they're in Thailand at an equally exotic, luxurious hotel, and bad things are happening again.
1:48.4	And everyone seems to have problems.
1:50.8	Yeah.
1:51.0	And so in one sense, it is a murder.
1:54.7	We follow what we know will be the death of somebody on the island.
1:57.9	We're not going to find that out until later.
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