Walton Goggins on The White Lotus and what he thinks about Aimee Lou Wood
It's clear that this is a man who lives to entertain, and certainly enjoys a drink or two — he even has his own brand of whiskey, gin and vodka, called Mulholland Distilling. So how true to life is the Hollywood party in the film, skewering industry bashes and the egotistical actors who frequent them? 'You know, I've been throwing parties for a really long time, and certainly when no one had any idea what my f***ing name was,' he says. 'And those were as much fun as they are, when you look around a room and there are people that you recognise. But no, none of those parties that we've thrown or we've been invited to are predicated on any of that.' And he might have moved from the bright lights of La La Land to the wilds of the Hudson Valley in 2021, but Goggins still wants to let the good times roll.
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