Patrick Schwarzenegger tried to keep his casting in the third season of HBO’s ‘The White Lotus” a secret from his family. It worked, he tells TODAY.com — but he accidentally sparked a different theory.

As brash, sex-obsessed Saxon Ratliff, Schwarzenegger makes a big impression in the premiere of season three. Even he’s surprised at some of the things his character says and does: “I remember reading that and just being like,

Patrick Schwarzenegger is well aware that his character on HBO dramedy The White Lotus did not come out of the season premiere looking like a nice guy. In the show, which premiered on Sunday, February 16,