Jason Isaacs wasn’t making smoothies for the money.
Four months after The White Lotus’ third season premiered, the 62-year-old—who played Timothy Ratliffe, the family patriarch—revealed that every cast member on the show was paid “a very low price” per episode: $40,000.
“Generally actors don’t talk about pay in public because it’s ridiculously disproportionate to what we do—putting on makeup and funny voices—and just upsets the public,” Jason told Variety in an interview published June 16. “But compared to what people normally get paid for big television shows, that’s a very low price.”
In addition to having made around $320,000 for the entire season, Jason made the same amount as cast members with less experience, including Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook, who portrayed his on-screen children.
But according to the Harry Potter alum, that didn’t bother him at all.
“I never work for money,” he explained. “I’ve done all right. People will think I have huge stockpiles of money but sadly, what I’ve done rather immaturely is expand my outgoings to match my incomings and pretty much spent everything I’ve earned over the years.”
