The White Lotus star Jon Gries bares his banana in fruity new photoshoot
The White Lotus star Jon Gries is getting fruity in his new photoshoot. (Getty)
The White Lotus star Jon Gries is getting fruity in his new photoshoot. (Getty)
Jon Gries, who plays sullen billionaire and criminal mastermind Greg Hunt in HBO’s The White Lotus, has whipped out his banana in a fruity new photoshoot.
The actor, also known for his roles in coming-of-age comedy Napoleon Dynamite and noughties smash Lost, teamed up with luxury independent fashion house Jacquemus to peel off his shirt in a wild array of new snaps.
Set on a golf course, almost every shot in the collection of photos features a banana in some form, with one image showing Gries ferrying around dozens of the yellow fruits in a trailer cart.
It’s the first few photos in the collection that have particularly caught the internet’s eye though, as the 67-year-old actor poses shirtless and with banana-print boxers poking out through his unzipped jeans. He’s also donning a Jacquemus jacket and hat, but for thirsty internet dwellers, that’s beside the point.
“Jon I was not familiar with your game,” quipped American YouTuber Eva Gutowski.
“Wait he ate this,” added Becoming a Popstar judge Sean Bankhead.
Creative director Mel Walker fittingly dubbed Gries as “Daddy Greg”.
Gries is the only actor to appear in all three seasons of Mike White’s eat-the-rich comedy series The White Lotus, with the third season wrapping up earlier this month.
Season three saw Gries as Greg, or under his fake name Gary, as he lived the high life in Thailand after fleeing Sicily where he’d plotted to murder his heiress wife, Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge).
He was spotted at the White Lotus resort by former spa manager Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) who was planning on going into business with Tanya before Tanya blew her off.
Greg’s season three plot saw him attempt to buy Belinda’s silence, with the character and her son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) ultimately leaving Thailand five million dollars richer.
Referencing the plot, one person commented on Gries’ photoshoot: “When you’re $5 million in the hole…”
The White Lotus is streaming now on HBO and NOW.
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