Watch: 'White Lotus' Star Leo Woodall Plays a Hunted Gay Genius in 'Prime Target'

Leo Woodall raised eyebrows – and temperatures – portraying Jack, the sexy "nephew" of a villainous gay millionaire on "The White Lotus."

The precise nature of Jack's relationship with his "uncle" was a steamy surprise when he was spotted in a blazing hot sexual situation that made even the rimming scene between Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage (in the first season of "The White Lotus") pale by comparison. But Jack was also having sex with Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), the assistant to Jennifer Coolidge's character Tanya, and apparently developing feelings for her.

Now, in the Apple TV+ series "Prime Target," Woodall plays a queer mathematics genius whose brilliant insights threaten to unlock a dangerous digital weapon, making him a target for shadowy, ruthless forces that will stop at nothing to prevent his work from going forward.

A trailer for the upcoming series shows Woodall as Edward Brooks, a brilliant student at Cambridge University in England whose notion that "numbers [don't] behave the way we assume" alarms his mathematics professor (David Morrissey). "You need to drop this – now!" the professor growls.

But Jack is already on the radar of both criminals and intelligence agencies. Seen as a threat, Jack becomes a marked man; Variety recounts that it's only the intervention of an NSA agent Taylah Sanders (played by nonbinary actor Quintessa Swindell).

Ed's characteris described as having "the world's greatest mine," perhaps in homage to real-life physics genius Stephen Hawking, who held the Lucasian Chair in Mathematics at Cambridge – the very chair that Sir Isaac Newton held. In a jokey moment, the trailer shows Ed absent-mindedly retorting to mention of Newton made during a lecture: "Newton was full of it," Ed mutters, evidently not realizing he's voiced his opinion aloud.

"While the explosive trailer alone has been enough to get TV lovers interested, there's a reason for LGBTQ+ folk to give it a watch, too," Pink News reports. "Ed is queer, and in a relationship with young man, Adam (played by 'Lost Boys & Fairies' star, Fra Fee)."

Woodall expressed enthusiasm for the role, saying that the bookish Ed is a character unlike his usual casting, while Quintell addressed Ed being written as a gay man. "I love how Leo's character is represented," Pink News quoted Quintell as saying, "because it's not something that's very obvious.

"It's just a by-product of who he naturally is," Quintell went on to add, before saying that the character's queerness "was more a question of who he's decided to open his life to, which I really respected, and thought was something I wanted to be a part of".

Watch the trailer below. The eight-episode series premieres on Apple TV+ on January 22.