Warning: This story contains spoilers for “The White Lotus.”
Jon Gries doesn’t judge his character’s sexual predilections in “The White Lotus.”
The actor, who plays Greg “Gary” Hunt in the HBO show, laughed when Page Six asked about his on-screen girlfriend, Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon), propositioning fellow resort guest Saxon Ratliff (Patrick Schwarzenegger) for a voyeuristic evening.
“Was I skeeved out? That’s pretty funny,” he replied during an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
“No, anything to illuminate or augment is good at the end of the day,” Gries explained, noting that Saxon having an incestuous encounter with his brother, Lochlan Ratliff (Sam Nivola), was a “skeevier” storyline.
“It is what it is,” he added. “Any dynamic added to a role makes it more interesting to play.”
Gries, 67, knows how lucky he is to be the only cast member to have appeared in all three seasons of the Mike White-created anthology series.
“I mean, it’s kind of amazing,” he told us. “I have to somehow see if I’m dreaming or not. … I mean, it is the stuff of dreams.”
Besides attempting to orchestrate a fetishistic sleepover between Chloe and Saxon, Greg was involved in a negotiation with spa manager Belinda Lindsey (Natasha Rothwell) and her son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) over the suspicious Season 2 death of his wife, Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge).
They eventually agreed to a $5 million payout to Belinda and Zion to stay silent about Greg’s possible involvement in Tanya’s fatal fall off a yacht.
Gries does not believe Belinda and Zion have to worry about Greg coming after them.
“I think Greg realizes that ultimately, at the end of the day, that was an easy buy and a good situation for him,” he theorized, “because now they’re complicit.”
The “Napoleon Dynamite” star does not know whether he will be back for Season 4 — and wouldn’t dream of asking White.
“Oh gosh, no,” he exclaimed. “I never know; each time it’s a surprise to me so far. You can’t anticipate what Mike thinks and what he’s doing. He’s way into his own rhythm and way ahead of the curve.”
While Gries raised an eyebrow at Saxon and Lochlan’s drunken escapade, he was quick to defend the younger Ratliff sibling using a dirty blender — and almost dying as a result — in the Season 3 finale.
“He’s kind of a sleepyhead in his way,” he reasoned. “Like, ‘Whatever’ because he’s like a typical teen. ‘Eh, too much work. Let’s just do it.’”
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