Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola spoke out after their "White Lotus" characters — who are brothers — shared a kiss during the March 16 episode of the HBO show’s third season.

In a separate interview with Today.com, Patrick suggested that the incestuous kiss might shake the seemingly boundless confidence Saxon had at the beginning of the season. “One of the themes really is you enter the White Lotus as one person and you leave as another,” he said. “Who are you when everything that you thought you were is taken away?”