Jason Isaacs Regrets His Response to Prosthetic Questions, Takes Back 'Double Standard' Comments

Jason Isaacs is speaking out to take back comments that he made in response to questions about his full frontal scene on The White Lotus.

In multiple interviews last week, the 61-year-old actor was asked if he was wearing a prosthetic during that scene or if he was showing his actual anatomy.

“I think it’s interesting that there’s a double standard for men,” Jason told CBS Mornings. “But when women are naked… nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. So, its odd that there’s a double standard.”

Jason cited Mikey Madison in Anora and Margaret Qualley in The Substance as recent instances.

Now, Jason admits he regrets the comments he made.

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“I said the wrong words in the wrong way. I used the phrase ‘double standard,’ which I didn’t mean at all. There is a [different] double standard — women have been monstrously exploited and men haven’t,” he told Variety.

Jason said he made those comments in an attempt to be “lighthearted” and make sure his interviews didn’t “take away from [creator] Mike White’s brilliance.”

He added, “It came out wrong, and I was tired — I’d done so many interviews. I absolutely should not have mentioned those two actresses, whom I respect enormously. Mikey Madison I’m a massive fan of. My point wasn’t that men have had a harder time than women — that would be absurd. Women have had a monstrous time on camera forever, and I hope to God that is changing… women have been exploited forever in cinema and made to be gratuitously naked and asked totally inappropriate questions.”

Jason still doesn’t think the questions were appropriate.

“I had been asked so many times in the same day by journalists, ‘Are you wearing a prosthetic?’ Which means, ‘Have I seen your actual penis? It’s very important for me to know if I’ve seen your penis.’ It just strikes me as a bit weird and slightly obsessive. I thought I could have fun batting it off, but I batted it off very poorly,” he said.

Jason‘s co-stars already revealed the answer to the question.