Dyan Cannon Told Jason Isaacs that Cary Grant 'Wasn't Gay When He Was ****ing Me, Honey'

Jason Isaacs gave Vulture a wide-ranging interview yesterday in support of … well, Jason Isaacs, I think. He doesn’t seem to be promoting anything — just taking advantage of his newfound White Lotus fame to be as gloriously messy as possible, in mostly the best ways. (Though he won’t outright condemn J.K. Rowling — he’ll only say she’s on the wrong side of history — and he doesn’t think much of Mel Gibson: “He’s not my friend,” he says, but adds that he’d still take Gibson in if his hotel got canceled. Let that man freeze to death on the sidewalk, Jason!)

He calls Parker Posey “bonkers,” but in a complimentary way; drops half a dozen blind items that are impossible to solve (a bullying actor who pushed him out of the shot, a mesmerizing actor who can’t actually act); and recounts a moment on the set of David Ayer’s Fury when Shia LaBeouf asked if he wanted to fight, because apparently all the leads in that movie were boxing.

Isaacs also talks about the relatively low pay he received for White Lotus. Despite the prestige of the project, he was paid $40,000 an episode—same as everyone else, regardless of experience. Still, he says he would’ve paid Mike White to be in it. While other cast members are now raking in endorsement deals off the back of White Lotus, Isaacs hasn’t been approached — probably because brands are terrified of what he might say next.

But honestly, the best part of the interview is the “incredibly private details” Dyan Cannon shared with him while he was preparing to play Cary Grant in Archie.

“I asked her where he hit her, how often he hit her, what their sex was like, who came first,” he said, noting: “These are the kind of questions you can ask someone when you’re an actor.”

And according to Isaacs, Dyan Cannon, in her 80s at the time, did not hold back.

“Well, she said, ‘I was the only woman he came inside.’ Because that’s why they have Jennifer, their daughter, who I also met and spent time with. I was asking her about him being gay. She said, ‘He wasn’t gay when he was fucking me, honey.’ And I said, ‘Fair enough, but did he continue to fuck you after Jennifer was born?’ ‘Yeah.’ And I go, ‘What was it like?’ I wanted to know whether he gave her an orgasm, whether he cared, whether he finished himself off because he was thinking about men. Absolutely not, she said.”

And that’s the kind of gold you get from interviewing Jason Isaacs.

Also, I had no idea Dyan Cannon and Cary Grant were married, despite a 33-year age gap (he was 58, she was 25), or that his LSD use impacted their relationship. (Cary Grant? LSD?) There’s probably an episode of Karina Longworth’s You Must Remember This I need to queue up immediately.

Source: Vulture