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05-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Jason Isaacs And Walton Goggins Just Mocked Those "White Lotus" Feud Rumors In The Cheekiest Way
You might've heard speculation that some of The White Lotus costars have fallen out based on comments from some of the series' stars. It's fair to say the beef might not apply to Jason Isaacs and Walton Goggins, despite these two actors seemingly being the cause of the gossip train. Ivan Apfel / Getty Images, MICHAEL TRAN / AFP via Getty Images Jason played the wealthy hot-mess patriarch and North Carolina financier Timothy Ratliff in Season 3 of The White Lotus. Walton played the vengeful and not-so-inquisitive boyfriend Rick Hatchett in the same season. Funny enough, the endless speculation surrounding beef between The White Lotus cast came about from the internet over-investigating interview comments from these two actors. Related: Leonardo DiCaprio's 26-Year-Old Girlfriend, Vittoria Ceretti, Just Talked About What It's Really Like Dating Him — And Some Of Her Comments Are Making Me View Them Differently In an interview with the Guardian, Jason described filming The White Lotus as a "theater camp, but to some extent an open prison camp," adding, "You couldn't avoid one other. There are tensions and difficulties, I don't know if they spilled from on-screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway. There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke." "I can't pretend I wasn't involved in some off-screen drama…" Jason continued. "There were times when things were not quite so fond. I was in some ways used to it, but within a couple of weeks my wife [who was with him on set and used to be an actor] went, 'Some of these people are fucking mad.' I said, 'No, it's just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You've forgotten what it's like.'" In March, Jason also told Vulture, "All the things you would imagine with a group of people unanchored from their home lives on the other side of the world, in the intense pressure cooker of the working environment with eye-melting heat and insects and late nights. They say in the show, 'What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,' but there's an offscreen White Lotus as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama." Similarly, Walton talked about his experience for Cultured, saying, "Someone I worked with on The White Lotus didn't fully understand my process," he admitted. "My character — Rick Hatchett — he's isolated. So during filming, I was isolated. I liked mirroring that, but it was emotionally difficult." Related: 15 Celebs Who Went From 'Wait, They Did WHAT?!' Normal Jobs To Massive Fame "Then, a few months into The White Lotus, Fallout premiered and started to take off. One day, this actor I was working with — nice guy, good actor — came up to me and said, 'You're brilliant in Fallout. Please tell me you had a good time making that.'" In Prime Video's Fallout series, Walton also starred as Cooper Howard, aka Ghoul. "I just stared at him," Walton continued. "Because he didn't get it. I don't care how good you are — if you don't understand that there's a world beyond the script, if you don't give yourself over to it, then you're missing something profound in this work. This is the drug. I said: 'No. I play a guy who's lived for 200 years and seen the worst of humanity. Every day was fucking horrible.' He just stared back at me like: 'OK, wow.'" "So, I lean into that. The people I look up to lean into that. And this guy — again, great actor — just couldn't understand. 'Why would someone do that?' I thought, Why wouldn't you?" Walton finished. "I bring that level of seriousness to everything I do. Comedy, drama — I take it all seriously. How many of these chances will I have? I want to squeeze as much life experience as I possibly can out of each one." However, on May 3, Jason shared two photos on Instagram to put the speculation to rest that there's any beef between him and Walton at least. "Guess who was on my plane?" the Harry Potter actor wrote in the Instagram caption. Jason also called out the internet rumor mill, writing, "Hey, all you genius online sleuths — see any beef?!! #RicksAlive!!!" Walton shared the same photo on his Instagram story, writing, "Got to hug Timothy Ratliff yesterday." In Jason's Instagram post, he also tagged the official account for Duke University, where his character, Timothy, went to college and wore a T-shirt with the school's logo. After his character imagined a murder-suicide while wearing the Duke shirt, the university released a statement condemning the episode. The university told CNN, "Duke appreciates artistic expression and creative storytelling, but characters prominently wearing apparel bearing Duke's federally registered trademarks creates confusion and mistakenly suggests an endorsement or affiliation where none exists." Jason told Rob Lowe on the Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast that he was "pretty sure they got it cleared because, as you know, you don't ever go on television without getting all the logos cleared." He added, "Someone at Duke decided that was really untoward and was not happy with the association. Other people online were pointing out that there are real-life alumni of Duke to be far more worried about than a fictional alumni." I'm living for Jason and Walton's cheeky era! 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Buzz Feed
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Jason Isaacs And Walton Goggins Just Mocked Those "White Lotus" Feud Rumors In The Cheekiest Way
You might've heard speculation that some of The White Lotus costars have fallen out based on comments from some of the series' stars. It's fair to say the beef might not apply to Jason Isaacs and Walton Goggins, despite these two actors seemingly being the cause of the gossip train. Jason played the wealthy hot-mess patriarch and North Carolina financier Timothy Ratliff in Season 3 of The White Lotus. Walton played the vengeful and not-so-inquisitive boyfriend Rick Hatchett in the same season. In an interview with the Guardian, Jason described filming The White Lotus as a "theater camp, but to some extent an open prison camp," adding, "You couldn't avoid one other. There are tensions and difficulties, I don't know if they spilled from on-screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway. There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke." "I can't pretend I wasn't involved in some off-screen drama…" Jason continued. "There were times when things were not quite so fond. I was in some ways used to it, but within a couple of weeks my wife [who was with him on set and used to be an actor] went, 'Some of these people are fucking mad.' I said, 'No, it's just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You've forgotten what it's like.'" Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic for HBO In March, Jason also told Vulture, "All the things you would imagine with a group of people unanchored from their home lives on the other side of the world, in the intense pressure cooker of the working environment with eye-melting heat and insects and late nights. They say in the show, 'What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,' but there's an offscreen White Lotus as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama." Similarly, Walton talked about his experience for Cultured, saying, "Someone I worked with on The White Lotus didn't fully understand my process," he admitted. "My character — Rick Hatchett — he's isolated. So during filming, I was isolated. I liked mirroring that, but it was emotionally difficult." "Then, a few months into The White Lotus, Fallout premiered and started to take off. One day, this actor I was working with — nice guy, good actor — came up to me and said, 'You're brilliant in Fallout. Please tell me you had a good time making that.'" In Prime Video's Fallout series, Walton also starred as Cooper Howard, aka Ghoul. "I just stared at him," Walton continued. "Because he didn't get it. I don't care how good you are — if you don't understand that there's a world beyond the script, if you don't give yourself over to it, then you're missing something profound in this work. This is the drug. I said: 'No. I play a guy who's lived for 200 years and seen the worst of humanity. Every day was fucking horrible.' He just stared back at me like: 'OK, wow.'" Jamie McCarthy / WireImage "So, I lean into that. The people I look up to lean into that. And this guy — again, great actor — just couldn't understand. 'Why would someone do that?' I thought, Why wouldn't you?" Walton finished. "I bring that level of seriousness to everything I do. Comedy, drama — I take it all seriously. How many of these chances will I have? I want to squeeze as much life experience as I possibly can out of each one." However, on May 3, Jason shared two photos on Instagram to put the speculation to rest that there's any beef between him and Walton at least. "Guess who was on my plane?" the Harry Potter actor wrote in the Instagram caption. Jason also called out the internet rumor mill, writing, "Hey, all you genius online sleuths — see any beef?!! #RicksAlive!!!" Walton shared the same photo on his Instagram story, writing, "Got to hug Timothy Ratliff yesterday." In Jason's Instagram post, he also tagged the official account for Duke University, where his character, Timothy, went to college and wore a T-shirt with the school's logo. After his character imagined a murder-suicide while wearing the Duke shirt, the university released a statement condemning the episode. @therealjasonisaacs / Via Instagram: @ The university told CNN, "Duke appreciates artistic expression and creative storytelling, but characters prominently wearing apparel bearing Duke's federally registered trademarks creates confusion and mistakenly suggests an endorsement or affiliation where none exists." Jason told Rob Lowe on the Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast that he was "pretty sure they got it cleared because, as you know, you don't ever go on television without getting all the logos cleared." Ivan Apfel / Getty Images He added, "Someone at Duke decided that was really untoward and was not happy with the association. Other people online were pointing out that there are real-life alumni of Duke to be far more worried about than a fictional alumni." I'm living for Jason and Walton's cheeky era!
Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Find out why White Lotus heartthrob Walton Goggins has his briefs SNIFFED by an SNL star
White Lotus heartthrob Walton Goggins had his yellow Speedo swimsuit briefs sniffed on Thursday. The 53-year-old actor was attending the Valentino Celebrates the CULT100 held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City when the shocking act happened. Walton was smiling from ear-to-ear while next to Chloe Fineman of Saturday Night Live fame when she inhaled into the briefs. They appeared to be the same swimsuit bottoms he wore on the cover of Cultured. Chloe sniffed the briefs as a sight gag because Walton has become such a wanted hunk in recent months thanks to his TV show. This comes just before Walton is set to appear on Fineman's show Saturday Night Live. Goggins was in a black suit with unbuttoned dark blue shirt with a gold necklace as he flashed a deep Malibu tan. Chloe was dressed up in a beige lace mini dress and a matching headband with her hair in soft waves. This comes after fans were treated new snaps of him leaving little to the imagination for CULTURED's April/May 2025 issue, which saw him in only a pair of tiny yellow Speedos. Fans were treated new snaps of him leaving little to the imagination for CULTURED's April/May 2025 issue, which saw him smoldering at the camera in his speedos and a suede jacket, left open to show off his chiseled chest. Sharing the photos to his Instagram, his swooning fans were quick to race to the comments to voice their praise. 'Straight man here and holy hell I'm into it'; 'Have mercy on my SOULLLLL'; 'Goonin for Goggins'; 'walton gaggings'. 'Yellow budgie smugglers were not on my bingo card for items that Walton Goggins would be wearing in 2025, but here we are. And he still looks incredible! We love you Walton!' 'Yea Chelsea. I get it now'; 'Help I'm pregnant'; 'Walton showing us his Goggins'; 'You gotta let me live, sir. I'm but a humble maiden.' Googins appeared to be in great spirits during the packed event While the official account for The White Lotus couldn't resist commenting too, quipping: 'Some guests leave their mark.' They gushed: 'The finest man I have ever seen in my life'; 'I wasn't expecting this on my 2025 bingo card but I am NOT disappointed'. The actor has become the world's newest favorite heartthrob after his starring turn as the moody Rick Hatchett, in the latest season of The White Lotus. Walton told the Mail's You magazine that his character Rick's unexpected sex-symbol status, gives him 'a smile in my heart'. While his wife Nadia Conners gushed: 'He's aged like fine wine. But it's hard as I'm a middle-aged woman. So suddenly I feel like 'all these women find him attractive. 'But what's so amazing is he's always made me feel like the most beautiful woman in the room.' In the accompanying interview with Cultured however, Walton opened up to his Fallout director Jonathon Nolan and admitted that despite his incredible success, he still struggles with a 'deep fear' that it will go away. When musing on the 'secret to his success', he admitted 'If I'm being real, it's fear. Truly. A heavy dose of anxiety', adding that he felt pressure not to let anyone down who allowed him to do his job as actor. He explained that growing up without money also means he is constantly putting pressure on himself to provide for his family and determined to be the best father and husband he can. Walton tied the knot with TV scriptwriter Nadia, 55, in 2011, just a few months after they welcomed their son Augustus, 14. Detailing his 'debilitating fear', he said: 'I wake up every morning and stand at the crossroads with two cappuccinos in my hands. 'I ask myself what kind of artist I want to be, what kind of friend, what kind of father, what kind of husband. My dilemma isn't about my occupation; it is about what sort of man I can be on any given day.' 'That, coupled with a deep fear that I have made a mistake and might be living beyond my means, is debilitating. I'm constantly having conversations with myself about plan A, plan B, C, D… on a bad night I can get to the end of the alphabet.' The interview comes after co-star Aimee Lou Wood has broken her silence on the feud rumours with Walton in a new social media post. The Sex Education star, 31, plays Chelsea in the third series of The White Lotus who ends up in a relationship with Walton's character Rick. Despite their on-screen chemistry in Thailand, the pair have reportedly fallen out since filming for the HBO Max series wrapped up. Eagle-eyed fans noticed how the pair have unfollowed each other on social media and potentially have each other blocked. Taking to her Instagram on Thursday, Aimee shared a piece of fan art by @sketchesbyspencer on her Stories. The impressive drawing showed the actress and the actor during their time together on the show, seemingly suggesting all is now well between them. The frenzy among fans has intensified in recent weeks amid unsubstantiated speculation about the closeness of their relationship. The roots of it appear to lie in a social media post by Walton following the streaming of the finale on April 6, where he wrote: 'To me, ours was a love story. It was only ever a love story hindered by unresolved childhood trauma. Thank you Aimee Lou for being my partner… a journey I will never forget.' The post soundtrack was Fleetwood Mac's Silver Springs – a song written by Stevie Nicks about her traumatic break-up with band guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Perhaps concerned that White Lotus fans were reading too much into this, he later changed the tune for John Lennon's Love. Co-star Jason Isaacs added to the intrigue, claiming: 'There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke.' Fuel was added to the gossip swirling around their real-life relationship when it appeared that Walton had then blocked Aimee Lou on Instagram. Aimee Lou, who boasts 2.6m Instagram followers, has been passionately sharing behind the scenes photos and reposts from her co-stars throughout the third season, with Walton also sharing his own set memories.
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Anything Rick can do, Greg can do better! Jon Gries, 67, puts himself forward as new White Lotus heartthrob in shirtless photoshoot after Walton Goggins, 53, posed in a Speedo
Jon Gries has put himself forward as the new unlikely heattthrob for The White Lotus as he posed shirtless in a new photoshoot for fashion brand Jacquemus. The actor, 67, who plays Greg on the HBO show, gave co-star Walton Goggins a run for his money after he posed in Speedos for Cultured magazine. In the shoot, Jon sported a navy jacket as he displayed his gym honed physique while posing next to a vintage car. Holding a banana in his hand, he also wore a pair of unbotton jeans to reveal his white underwear. In other snaps, he dressed in a white blazer and shorts while posing with a bundle of daffodils. In another, he wore a suit while holding up a sign reading: 'I love bananas'. The actor also posed in a light grey tracksuit for another shot and in a white shirt and trousers while holding an alpaca. Jon's photoshoot went down a treat with fans who quickly took to social media to comment on the snaps. They wrote: 'He's truly so hot'... 'I've never been more obsessed with a photoshoot'... 'This is the best thing I've seen in ages'. 'Jon I was not familiar with your game'... 'Boyfriend boyfriending'. Jon's other White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood, who played Chelsea, shared one of the photos on Instagram and wrote: 'This is the coolest thing ever @jongries'. It comes after Walton, who played Rick on the third season of the show, set the internet ablaze with his Speedo photoshoot. Fans were treated new snaps of him leaving little to the imagination for CULTURED's April/May 2025 issue, which saw him smoldering at the camera in his speedos and a suede jacket, left open to show off his chiselled chest. Walton recently told the Mail's You magazine this week that his character Rick's unexpected sex-symbol status, gives him 'a smile in my heart'. Jon's photoshoot went down a treat with fans who quickly took to social media to comment on the snaps While his wife Nadia Conners gushed: 'He's aged like fine wine. But it's hard as I'm a middle-aged woman. So suddenly I feel like 'all these women find him attractive'. 'But what's so amazing is he's always made me feel like the most beautiful woman in the room.' In the accompanying interview with Cultured however, Walton opened up to his Fallout director Jonathon Nolan and admitted that despite his incredible success, he still struggles with a 'deep fear' that it will go away. When musing on the 'secret to his success', he admitted 'If I'm being real, it's fear. Truly. A heavy dose of anxiety', adding that he felt pressure not to let anyone down who allowed him to do his job as actor. He explained that growing up without money also means he is constantly putting pressure on himself to provide for his family and determined to be the best father and husband he can. Walton tied the knot with TV scriptwriter Nadia, 55, in 2011, just a few months after they welcomed their son Augustus, 14.
Buzz Feed
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
After Jason Isaacs Likened The 'White Lotus' Set To 'An Open Prison Camp,' Walton Goggins Has Revealed That One Of His Costars Didn't 'Understand' His 'Process'
In recent weeks, Season 3 of The White Lotus has become just as renowned for its speculated off-screen drama as it was for its on-screen, with the rumor mill going into overdrive thanks to some eyebrow-raising social media activity, and a series of juicy comments from Jason Isaacs, who played Timothy Ratliff on the show. In an interview with the Guardian, 61-year-old Jason described filming the show in Thailand as 'theater camp, but to some extent an open prison camp,' adding at the time: 'You couldn't avoid one other. There are tensions and difficulties, I don't know if they spilled from on-screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway. There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke.' 'I can't pretend I wasn't involved in some off-screen drama…' he went on. 'There were times when things were not quite so fond. I was in some ways used to it, but within a couple of weeks my wife [who was with him on set and used to be an actor] went, 'Some of these people are fucking mad.' I said, 'No, it's just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You've forgotten what it's like.'' And in a conversation with screenwriter and producer Jonathan Nolan for Cultured, Jason's costar Walton Goggins has reflected on his own experience on the White Lotus set — and admitted that his arguably intense acting process received a mixed reaction from the other actors, with some not understanding his choices. HBO For reference, Walton played Rick Hatchett in the show, who is in a relationship with Aimee Lou Wood's character, Chelsea. In the interview, Jonathan asked Walton if he has a 'philosophy' for his 'approach to acting.' The two worked together on the 2024 TV series Fallout, and Jonathan added: 'I love to come over and connect on set, but there are definitely times when I think, Nope, he's fully in it. Especially on [the set of Fallout ], when you're under 20 pounds of prosthetics. Is that distance something you carry into every role?' 'If I had to call it something, it would be 'reverence,'' Walton replied. 'It's not like I'm doing anything new — plenty of people I admire do it. It's not method, it's not 'a way.' I believe storytelling is a kind of religion. It's its own god. I wouldn't wear sweats to church; I'd show up looking ready to be saved. In any spiritual practice, the posture is: 'Whatever you have for me, I'm prepared to accept it.' I feel the same way about working in film.' 'I'll say this. Someone I worked with on The White Lotus didn't fully understand my process,' Walton then confessed. 'My character — Rick Hatchett — he's isolated. So during filming, I was isolated. I liked mirroring that, but it was emotionally difficult. Then, a few months into The White Lotus, Fallout premiered and started to take off. One day, this actor I was working with — nice guy, good actor — came up to me and said, 'You're brilliant in Fallout. Please tell me you had a good time making that.'' HBO 'I just stared at him,' the star continued. 'Because he didn't get it. I don't care how good you are — if you don't understand that there's a world beyond the script, if you don't give yourself over to it, then you're missing something profound in this work. This is the drug. I said: 'No. I play a guy who's lived for 200 years and seen the worst of humanity. Every day was fucking horrible.' He just stared back at me like: 'OK, wow.'' 'So, I lean into that. The people I look up to lean into that. And this guy — again, great actor — just couldn't understand. 'Why would someone do that?' I thought, Why wouldn't you? ' Walton concluded. 'I bring that level of seriousness to everything I do. Comedy, drama — I take it all seriously. How many of these chances will I have? I want to squeeze as much life experience as I possibly can out of each one.' HBO This isn't the first time that Walton has detailed the extreme lengths that he has gone to when taking on a character, with the star having a similarly dedicated approach when he landed the role of transgender sex worker Venus Van Dam in Season 5 of Sons of Anarchy, which premiered in 2012. Walton was still working on Quentin Tarantino's 2012 movie Django Unchained when he was cast, and started getting into character immediately. Speaking during an appearance on Wired's Web's Most Searched Questions series, he recalled: 'I bought a pair of high heels while we were doing Django Unchained, and I walked the streets of New Orleans after wrap, at, like, midnight, every night for the better half of a month, just to get used to it. If you can walk in high heels on cobblestone streets, you can walk in them anywhere.' ©FX Networks/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I don't feel like I did that show,' the star added of Sons. 'Because it took four and a half hours to get made up; I'd come in very early in the morning, and no one — out of respect to me and deference to Venus — no one ever saw that transition except the people who were working on it.' 'Charlie [Hunnam], and Kim [Coates], and all the boys on the show only ever met me as Venus Van Dam,' Walton explained. 'We had been friends for years before that, but they never talked to me as Walton. They only referred to me as Venus, and they treated me as the lady that I was.' And Sons ' creator Kurt Sutter referenced Walton's dedication to Venus during an episode of his and his wife Katey Sagal's podcast, PIE with Kurt Sutter and Katey Sagal last year, where he said that while he'd cast a transgender actor to play the role today, Walton approached Venus in a 'truly authentic' way that wasn't 'demeaning' to transgender women. 'At all times, Walton was a goddess, you know? He was very, very concerned with respecting that community, and portraying it in a way that was not demeaning, that was not making fun of [it],' Kurt shared. 'Everything he did was truly authentic, which allowed me to write [Venus] like this beautiful, gentle, vulnerable Southern Belle.'
