Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood reveal never-before-seen White Lotus sex scene as they quash feud rumors
Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood have spilled the details of their saucy never-before seen sex scene that got cut from The White Lotus.
The juicy tidbit came during a bizarre interview in which they finally addressed the feud rumors between them, which hit an all-time high after they unfollowed each other on Instagram.
Months after feverish speculation that the White Lotus costars had a strained relationship, Goggins, 53, got emotional as he insisted they were on good terms.
'There is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me,' he insisted during a joint interview for Variety's Actors on Actors series.
At another point in their back-and-forth, the pair raised the curtain on the steamy onstream relationship between their characters - including one tantalizing moment that never made it to the airwaves.
In the cut sequence, the characters apparently met up with one another at the beach, returned to their bedroom to talk over the state of their equation and then made love.
'We designed the whole journey, even down to the fact that Chelsea gets on Rick in the first [love] scene. Then in the last episode, it was Rick picking Chelsea up. It was so, so delicate,' Wood explained.
Goggins shared that the scene gave the sense of 'two people who were free,' juxtaposed with the first scene, which indicated their bond.
'It was this very long, suspended moment of these two people looking at each other. It was so powerful,' added the The Hateful Eight actor.
Demonstrating his cheeky sense of humor, Goggins also offered a message to The White Lotus creator Mike White: 'F*** you, Mike! We want a director's cut!'
Goggins, who has been married to Nadia Conners since 2011, sang Wood's praises as he raved: 'This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will.'
'You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be. I'll be on an island, I think Greece. But she's special. There is no feud. She is love and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply,' he continued.
Wood proceeded to address the outrage over headlines that Goggins unfollowed her on social media, which fans perceived as a sign they did not get along.
'I think it's such a comment on where we're at culturally,' she said over the online fury. 'Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don't give a s**t about Instagram.'
Wood explained she wished more people were having 'conversations about the story' of their White Lotus characters, Rick and Chelsea, and simply enjoying the show.
As rumors swirled about them, Wood revealed she initially wanted to correct people, but feared her words would get twisted.
'Eventually I just started to sit back and watch these people making something out of absolutely nothing,' she said of why she stayed silent.
Goggins chimed in to say: 'If I may add, just to put this to bed? The following or unfollowing. I'm a grown-a** man.'
The star went on to confess that he has historically struggled with goodbyes.
For example, Goggins recalled hugging his former Justified costar Tim Olyphant and telling him: 'I love you, and I hope I see you in rooms for the rest of my life.'
'I didn't talk to him for almost two years. I've done that with every single thing that I've done,' he admitted.
Goggins then claimed had he been following Olyphant or his The Shield co-star Michael Chiklis that he would have unfollowed them too.
The juicy tidbit came during a bizarre interview in which they finally addressed the feud rumors between them, for Variety's Actors On Actors
Seeing the humor in the situation, Goggins declared: 'You know what? I'll follow you right now!'
'It's all so ridiculous,' he quipped. 'It's just a part of me just saying goodbye to this character so that now Aimee and I will be friends for f**king ever.'
In response, Wood gave him a hug and says: 'I completely understand.'
'I love you,' he declares, before tearfully explaining he is 'emotional' because they 'haven't been in the same city to ever talk about any of this.'
'Hopefully that answers everybody's questions,' he concludes. 'What else? Do you guys want to talk about astrology?'
Wrapping production on The White Lotus, which was filmed in Thailand over a period of seven months, was a particularly painful experience for him.
Following the death of his first wife Leanne Goggins, who died by suicide in 2004, Goggins searched for peace through traveling.
This led him to Thailand, then to Bangkok, in the same location as The White Lotus.
'My catharsis in this experience was different than other people's, because of my history in this place. I knew what we had gone through, and I knew how close that we had gotten, and I needed to begin to process saying goodbye to Rick and Chelsea,' Goggins explained through tears.
He continued: 'And I knew that that was going to take a while for me, so I let her know, this is what I've gotta do. And she was extremely supportive about that.'
'I needed to just back away from everyone,' he said. 'I haven't spoken to anyone. I couldn't handle it. Judge me or don't. I don't give a f**k what you think. This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me.'
Goggins and Wood portrayed star-crossed lovers Rick and Chelsea on the latest season of the HBO show, with both their characters dying in the dramatic final episode.
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