Jason Isaacs regrets noble, failed effort to stop people speculating about his penis
After leaning a bit too hard on the "double standard" talk in his attempt to stop people from speculating about his penis, Jason Issacs admits "women have been monstrously exploited."
Photograph by Fabio Lovino (HBO)
Well, that didn’t take long. Days after he attempted to take the penis out of the conversation surrounding his recent decision to hang dong on The White Lotus, Jason Isaacs has issued a retraction. While it was indeed strange for professional broadcaster Gayle King and her cohorts at CBS Sunday Morning to repeatedly ask if that was really Jason Isaacs’ white lotus on a recent episode of The White Lotus, Isaacs admits he used the wrong words in his response. In particular, when asked about his penis, he brought up a “double standard” in the entertainment industry because he didn’t see anyone discussing nudity in Anora or The Substance, despite him believing Mikey Madison’s “vulva” got plenty of screentime. He’s sorry about that now.
“I said the wrong words in the wrong way,” Isaacs told Variety. “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.”