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Hindustan Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Walton Goggins steers clear of Aimee Lou Wood drama on SNL, brings spotlight on sex symbol tag
Actor Walton Goggins made his Saturday Night Live (SNL) hosting debut over the weekend, bringing the funny without bringing up the drama. That's because he steered clear of addressing the rumoured rift between him and his The White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wood, keeping the spotlight on the show's humour and the 'sex symbol' tag. Also read: Walton Goggins to host SNL: Here's what The White Lotus star's net worth is The actor, 53, made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut on May 10, while Arcade Fire served as the musical guest. Throughout the show, Walton made no mention of the rift rumours. In his opening monologue, he did mention his involvement in the series, saying, 'Most of you probably know me from The White Lotus. No spoilers, but I die'. Walton then talked about how the internet seemed to find his 'brooding' character 'attractive.' 'Some of my friends have even asked me, 'What does it feel like to become a sex symbol at 53 years old?' And you know what, if I'm being honest, it feels fantastic,' he shared. 'At least it did, until I Googled myself and read some of the headlines,' he added, and then pointed to news articles that mentioned his 'bulging' eyes and 'receding hairline'. After pulling up the headline 'Hollywood's Newest Heartthrob Is a Greasy, Depressing Little Man Whom No One Saw Coming', Walton joked, 'Thank you? For some reason, the part of that headline that offends me the most is the word 'whom.' It just sounds pretentious'. Walton also spoke about his upbringing and then invited his mother onto the stage. The two began slow dancing before surprising the audience with their tap-dancing skills. The rumours around feud rumours between Walton, 53, and Aimee, 31, surfaced in April after fans noticed that the co-stars weren't following each other on Instagram. Some fans were even convinced that the pair, who played love interests on the hit show, had blocked each other Their fellow co-star, Jason Isaacs, further fueled the buzz of a falling out when he admitted, without naming names, that there were arguments on the Thailand set of the series. 'People have to remember it was the actors and the crew and (inaudible) — all these people are in a little pressure cooker together,' he said on SiriusXM show The Happy Hour. Walton's SNL appearance comes over a month after The White Lotus Season 3 finished airing on HBO.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jason Isaacs cannot stop talking about the 'White Lotus' cast's off-screen drama
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Season 3 of The White Lotus may have ended, but rumors are continuing to circulate around the show's stars. Actor Jason Isaacs, who played Timothy Ratliff — a fraudster, Duke University alum and patriarch of the affluent Ratliff family — has seized many opportunities to dish on the cast's dynamics behind the scenes. Isaacs's latest comments regarding offscreen tension among the White Lotus cast came this week, when the actor attempted to clarify previous remarks about there being bad blood among castmates on the show. 'And like anywhere you go for the summer, there's friendships, there's romances, there's arguments, there's cliques that form and break and reform and stuff like that,' he said on the April 9 episode of The Happy Hour on SiriusXM's Today Show Radio. 'And I'm just saying it wasn't a holiday, and partly I started saying that because people think we were on a seven-month holiday and believe me, it felt like work a lot of the time. It was insanely hot and there's all the normal social tensions you get anywhere, but for all of you [who] think you've cracked it by something you think someone has posted or is in a photo or not, you're just so far from the truth, believe me.' While Isaacs hasn't clarified which White Lotus stars argued on set, fans believe he may be referring to co-stars Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins, who have recently sparked feud rumors. Wood and Goggins played love interests on the show. "Nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about," Isaacs added of online sleuths. "People who think they're onto something, and it then it gets magnified because of a thousand other people. Nobody has any clue." Jon Gries, Sam Nivola, Jason Isaacs, Sarah Catherine Hook, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Charlotte Le Bon, Aimee Lou Wood, Leslie Bibb, Nicholas Duvernay, and Tayme Thapthimthong of The White Lotus. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO) Here's a look back at some of Isaacs's most telling interviews about the White Lotus cast, from Season 3's February 2025 premiere to now. Feb. 8: 'Thailand is a place full of parties, and we are not immune' While filming Season 3 in Thailand, Isaacs told the Guardian that there was 'bacchanalian behaviour' happening after hours. He didn't specify whether it was the cast or crew, or both cast and crew, engaging in this behavior. 'People are away from home and, you know, there's a lot of bacchanalian behaviour going on. I'm not telling stories out of school. It's just grownups doing whatever we like. Thailand is a place full of parties, and we are not immune.' Isaacs also likened filming Season 3 of the HBO series to 'an open prison camp.' 'It was a theatre camp, but to some extent an open prison camp: you couldn't avoid one another,' he said. '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.' Feb. 24: 'There's an offscreen White Lotus as much as an onscreen White Lotus' Isaacs also told Sharp Magazine that filming The White Lotus was 'a cross between high school and Lord of the Flies.' 'There was a pressure cooker atmosphere, not just to the story we were telling, but to our own lives,' he said. 'People are away from home. It's hot, people are drinking wine at night. There's an offscreen White Lotus as much as an onscreen White Lotus — just with slightly fewer body bags — to navigate and to add to the intensity of the whole experience, which is not something I'm used to. Normally, you go home.' March 14: 'It's odd there's a double standard' In an effort to dodge questions surrounding whether or not a prosthetic was used for Isaacs's full-frontal scene in Episode 4 of The White Lotus, the actor spoke about what he described as the 'double standard' that exists for men. Creator Mike White has since confirmed that Isaacs used a prosthetic for that scene. 'Because the Best Actress this year was Mikey Madison at the Oscars, and I don't see anybody discussing her vulva, which is on [screen] all the time,' Isaacs said during a taping of CBS Mornings. 'I think it's interesting that there's a double standard for men ... Margaret Qualley as well, in The Substance — nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. And so it's odd there's a double standard.' March 18: 'I said the wrong words in the wrong way' Days after calling out the 'double standard' for men who choose to go nude, the White Lotus actor clarified his comments. Isaacs told Variety that he had tried to address questions about his full-frontal scene by either attempting to 'brush it away' or answering 'lightheartedly.' 'I said the wrong words in the wrong way. I used the phrase 'double standard,' which I didn't mean at all. There is a [different] double standard — women have been monstrously exploited and men haven't,' he said. 'I absolutely should not have mentioned those two actresses, whom I respect enormously,' he added. 'Mikey Madison I'm a massive fan of. My point wasn't that men have had a harder time than women — that would be absurd. Women have had a monstrous time on camera forever, and I hope to God that is changing.' March 30: 'There were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost' While chatting with Vulture, Isaacs reiterated similar sentiments from his February cover story with Sharp Magazine, in which he described filming the HBO series as being a cross between high school and Lord of the Flies. Isaacs teased that there's 'an off-screen White Lotus' with 'fewer deaths but just as much drama.' 'Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost,' he 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.' Isaacs declined to elaborate on the drama that occurred off camera. 'Absolutely not,' he said. 'I became very close to some people and less close to others, but we still all had that experience together and there's a certain level of discretion required.' April 2: 'The internet is full of talk of Timothy Ratliff going full-frontal' Isaacs touched on the full-frontal scene once again while talking with the Hollywood Reporter. Gushing about creator White's 'genius' and the 'twisted, marvelous world he makes up,' Isaacs said that he was tuned in with online chatter and the 'prurient talk about a nude shot.' 'The series is much more profound and rich and resonant and human than others, but Mike's genius is also that he knows how to titillate and provoke and create conversations. He uses the medium of hourlong television at a weekly interval utterly perfectly. It's why the internet is full of talk of Timothy Ratliff going full-frontal,' he said. April 7: 'I'm totally fine with the things I've said and done' While reflecting on his character Timothy Ratliff's story arc over the course of the season, Isaacs also spoke to Deadline about having to be 'a little bit more careful' than he normally would while speaking to the press about The White Lotus. He referred to the backlash he received following his full-frontal comments on CBS Mornings. 'Then I bothered to issue some statements, I said the things I said were misinterpreted, and it was extraordinary how a fuss developed, not over a genuine backlash, but over the desire to amplify five people writing something on the phone while they were doing who knows what, probably having sandwiches, sitting on the toilet. That's been interesting. I'm totally fine with the things I've said and done, but it does make you far more self-conscious, because I like to just chat,' he said. April 7: 'We weren't one great big homogenous happy family' Isaacs doubled down on his previous statements that filming Season 3 of The White Lotus wasn't an entirely positive experience. Without naming names, he told the New York Times that the idea the cast was 'one great big' family was false. 'We were sticking pigs every day. No, but it wasn't entirely blissful,' he said. 'Obviously people formed friendships, but we weren't one great big homogenous happy family. It was a large group of people away from home, unanchored from their normal lives. I'm not going to break ranks and say who did what to whom, but it certainly wasn't a holiday.'
Express Tribune
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Jason Isaacs playfully jokes about White Lotus cast alleged 'beef' in new selfie with Walton Goggins
Jason Isaacs is having some fun with the internet's favorite drama and no, we're not talking about White Lotus season 3's plot twists, but the off-screen rumors of cast feuds. The actor, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, ran into his White Lotus co-star Walton Goggins on a flight and took the opportunity to poke fun at all the alleged tension. Sharing selfies on Instagram on May 2, Isaacs included a sweet shot where he kisses a grinning Goggins on the forehead. He captioned the post, 'Guess who was on my plane?' and followed it up with a jab at the internet rumors, writing, 'Hey, all you genius online sleuths - see any beef?!!' Then he signed off with, '#RicksAlive!!!', a clear wink at Goggins' character Rick Hatchett, whose fate was sealed in the show's bloody season finale. Isaacs didn't stop at referencing cast drama. He also gave a cheeky nod to another controversy involving his character Timothy 'Tim' Ratliff, a troubled financier and family man. During one shocking scene, Tim wears a Duke University shirt while contemplating suicide. The visual was widely shared and sparked backlash, with a Duke official telling The New York Times that the portrayal 'does not reflect our values or who we are.' In response, Isaacs showed up to the White Lotus finale party wearing a shirt with Duke's Blue Devil mascot, clearly not backing down. And the drama doesn't end there. Fans have long speculated that Goggins and his on-screen love interest, Aimee Lou Wood, had a falling out, something fueled by their mutual unfollowing on Instagram. Goggins didn't clear things up when asked about it in a May 1 Times interview, simply saying, 'I'm not gonna have that conversation,' while his publicists shut down any follow-up questions. In a separate April 9 appearance on The Happy Hour on SiriusXM's TODAY Show Radio, Isaacs acknowledged there were some tensions during filming. 'Like anywhere you go for the summer,' he said, 'there's friendships, there's romances, there's arguments, there's cliques that form and break and reform and stuff like that.' But he dismissed all the online speculation, saying, 'Nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about.' He added, 'People who think they're onto something, and then it gets magnified because of a thousand other people. Nobody has any clue." Whether he's throwing shade or just having a laugh, Isaacs is making it clear, he's not letting the rumors ruin the fun.
NBC News
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Jason Isaacs shuts down speculation about the ‘The White Lotus' Season 3 cast
Looks like what happens in Thailand doesn't always stay in Thailand. 'The White Lotus' Season 3 was filled with a slew of headline-making, shock-inducing storylines and deaths. But some viewers have decided to take the on-screen drama off-screen and into real life, reading into what may have happened between the ensemble cast during their seven months filming in Thailand. While the internet is buzzing with theories on what happened between the cast members, Jason Isaacs has a message for 'amateur Sherlock Holmes.' 'First of all, it's none of your business,' the actor, who portrayed businessman and father Timothy, said on an April 9 episode of SiriusXM's ' The Happy Hour.' 'Nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about.' Why did he feel the need to address the matter? Read on to learn more about what the internet believes has been brewing between 'The White Lotus' cast, and what the actors have shared before and after the April 6 finale. Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood Internet sleuths began speculating about the status of Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood's relationship after they paid tribute to their characters, as well as their experience on 'The White Lotus,' without tagging each other. In his April 6 post about their characters on Instagram, Goggins did shout out Wood, writing, 'Thank you Aimee Lou for being my partner… a journey I will never forget.' Wood posted a photo of her with Goggins on April 8 with the caption, 'A perfect storm.' The two are not following each other on Instagram, but follow other 'White Lotus' Season 3 cast members. Goggins also previously had a slideshow of photos with Wood pinned to his Highlights on Instagram, which is no longer available to view. Fans took note of the lack of tags and follows. 'Why did you unfollow each other?' one person asked on Goggins' post. Additionally, Goggins and Wood had different reactions to the divisive April 12 'SNL' political spoof called 'The White Potus.' The sketch was a political take on the Trump administration and poked fun at Wood by having cast member Sarah Sherman wear prosthetic teeth. Wood called out the sketch and called it 'mean and unfunny.' Meanwhile, Goggins commented that the sketch amazing on the 'SNL' Instagram account. 'Hahahahahhahaha Amazzzingggg,' he wrote in a since-deleted comment. Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer said in a New York Times that he was quitting and not returning for the show's fourth season. The creative said that he had been having disagreements with Mike White since the show's first season, which aired in 2021. He recalled people being 'furious' about the change of the theme song for Season 3, which didn't include the fan-favorite 'ooh-loo-loo-loos.' 'I texted the producer and I told him that it would be great to, at some point, give them the longer version with the ooh-loo-loo-loos, because people will explode if they realize that it was going there anyway,' he said. 'He thought it was a good idea. But then Mike cut that — he wasn't happy about that.' Tapia de Veer added, 'I mean, at that point, we already had our last fight forever, I think. So he was just saying no to anything.' He then uploaded his longer version to his YouTube. White, on his end, responded to Tapia de Veer quitting, saying an interview with Howard Stern on April 8, that he 'honestly' didn't know what happened. 'Except now I'm reading his interviews because he decides to do some PR campaign about him leaving the show,' White said. 'I don't think he respected me.' White claimed that they 'never really even fought' and said the composer 'wasn't a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to s--- on me and the show three days before the finale,' he said. 'It was kind of a b---- move.' Jason Isaacs stirs the pot with his comments across interviews February 2025: He was involved in off-screen drama, he says In an interview with The Guardian, published in February 2025, Isaacs called the set 'a theater camp,' as well as 'an open prison camp.' '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,' he said. 'There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke. It's a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows.' He then got candid about the instances that even White and producer David Bernad witnessed. 'I can't pretend I wasn't involved in some off-screen drama,' Isaacs said. 'I can't speak for them, but I imagine they think it feeds into the on-screen drama, and they might well be right. I think the heat contributed to these fissures appearing.' At the time, the actor believed that they would put their differences behind them at the premiere. 'We'll all see one other again (for the premiere) and I'm sure we'll be hugging and kissing and remembering it fondly. But there were times when things were not quite so fond,' he said. '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 f------ mad.' I said, 'No, it's just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You've forgotten what it's like.'' March 2025: Jason Isaacs says the set was like 'White Lotus,' with 'fewer deaths and just as much drama' The actor continued to spill just enough tea to keep fans interested. In a March interview with Vulture, Isaacs once again touched on the workplace dynamics. 'It wasn't a holiday. Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost. 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,' he said. 'They say in the show, 'What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,' but there's an off-screen 'White Lotus' as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama,' he added. When asked to elaborate on the drama he said, he would 'absolutely not.' 'I became very close to some people and less close to others,' was all he added. 'But we still all had that experience together and there's a certain level of discretion required.' April 2025: Jason Isaacs says there were issues, but it's 'none of your business' Isaacs addressed the chatter his comments were generating head-on in an April 9 interview on SiriusXM's ' The Happy Hour. ' 'Like anywhere you go for the summer, there's friendships, there's romances, there's arguments, there's cliques that form and break and reform and stuff like that. I'm careful,' Isaacs said. 'I'm not stupid. I look at the Internet.' 'And all these amateur Sherlock Holmes out there and nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about,' he continued. 'People who think they're onto something, it then gets magnified ... I'm talking about people you've never met before half the time, in different departments and the people in the hair and costume and in the accounts department and stuff.' He added that any drama 'it's none of your business,' before acknowledging that being on set 'wasn't a holiday.' 'People think we were on a seven-month holiday, and believe me, it felt like work a lot of the time. It was insanely hot, and there's all the normal social tensions, you get anywhere,' he continued, before sending a message to people. 'And for all of you who think you've cracked it by something you think someone has posted, or who's in the photo or not ... you're just so far from the truth.' Producer David Bernad hinted that actors took on their characters' personalities Producer Bernad reflected on workplace drama in the same The Guardian interview Isaacs first shared some set secrets. 'Whether it's subconscious or conscious, people take on the persona of their character. Like any workplace, if you spend that much time together, people start to get annoyed with one other,' Bernad said, also touching on the heat in real life and on the screen. 'That's another aspect of the show that's unique. On normal productions, you work, then you go home to your family,' he said. 'Here you work, and you go home to the same people.'
The Independent
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Jason Isaacs sets the record straight on White Lotus cast drama
White Lotus star Jason Isaacs has clarified comments he made about 'drama' on the set of the popular show. Isaacs, 61, plays Timothy Ratliff, the patriarch of a wealthy family and father of Saxon Ratliff (played by Patrick Schwarzenegger). The new season of the dark comedy was set in another luxury hotel - this time in Thailand. The British actor had previously described his experience working on the show as 'a cross between summer camp and Lord of the Flies but in a gilded cage,' in an interview with Vulture. He added there had been 'friendships that were made and friendships that were lost'. He also called out a 'double standard' in questioning when asked if he had used a prosthetic penis during shooting, insisting women would not be asked that question. Mike White, the show's creator, also hit out at the show's composer, Tapia de Veer, for quitting. De Veer said: 'We already had our last fight forever.' Isaacs addressed these comments, which many interpreted as signalling tension or ongoing feuds on set. 'Like anywhere you go for the summer, there's friendships, there's romances, there's arguments, there's cliques that form and break and reform and stuff like that. I'm careful,' he told The Happy Hour podcast. 'I'm not stupid. I look at the internet.' He added: 'Nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about. People who think they're onto something, and it then gets magnified because of a thousand other people. Nobody has any clue.' He went on to clarify his earlier comments saying: 'First of all, it's none of your business. I'm just saying it wasn't a holiday, and partly I started saying that because people think we were on a seven-month holiday, and believe me, it felt like work a lot of the time. It was insanely hot and there's all the normal social tensions you get anywhere.' In his previous comments to Vulture, Isaacs had said: 'They say in the show, 'What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,' but there's an off-screen White Lotus as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama.' About his statement on 'double standards' for men, the star backtracked and told Variety: 'I said the wrong words in the wrong way. I used the phrase 'double standard,' which I didn't mean at all.' At the time, Isaacs had said on CBS Mornings: 'I think it's interesting that there's a double standard for men, but when women are naked, Margaret Qualley in The Substance, no one would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. So, it's odd that there's a double standard.'
