It's been days, but we still can't stop talking about that White Lotus incest scene. You know the one where rich brothers, Saxon and Lochlan, end up in bed together while Lochlan has sex with Chloe and jerks off Saxon at the same time? Yeah, that one. Well, Sam Nivola can't stop talking about it either.

The White Lotus season 3 actors have given multiple interviews about the scene, revealing behind-the-scenes details (yes, they worked with an intimacy coordinator) and answering frequently asked questions (no, Sam doesn't think Lochlan is actually sexually attracted to his brother). But the most shocking—and hilarious—revelation so far has been just how much of a workout the scene was to film.

“I didn't realize how exhausting it is to have fake sex,” Sam said in an interview with Elite Daily. “I was sort of doing a one-armed plank, with my other hand jerking off Patrick.” Sounds exhausting!

If you've watched, then you know that Sam definitely had the most...acrobatic role in the scene. He was the only one doing two things at once, after all. “It was like doing weight lifting with your arm while you do a plank, and it lasted for such a long time,” he said, adding, “It took a couple hours to film, for sure. At one point, I was on the verge of passing out.”

Death by sex scene would be fitting for The White Lotus, after all the show is set up around a mysterious death. But, luckily, Sam survived to tell the tale.

In a separate interview, he said that this was actually his very first time filming a sex scene. “I was totally nervous. I'm a very anxious person,” he told Variety. “Doing the sex scene was nerve-racking, and we were on a boat, and I get seasick, so that was fucking stressful.” But, he said, “the actual scene itself went smoothly,” thanks to showrunner Mike White, his co-stars Patrick Schwarzenegger and Charlotte Le Bon, and an intimacy coordinator. Though some things almost got lost in translation.

“It's funny the way intimacy coordinators talk. They're always using anatomically correct vocabulary that feels stale and awkward,” Sam recalled. “I'd be like, ‘I don't know if I can grasp the shaft,’ and then Mike would be like, ‘Just jerk him off.’ And I'd be like, ‘Okay, that I understand.’”

I think at the end of the day, it's fair to say he got a pretty good handle on the situation.