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Elle
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins Address Their Rumored ‘Feud': ‘We Care About Each Other Very Deeply'
'There is no feud,' Walton Goggins says of his relationship with Aimee Lou Wood, his co-star in The White Lotus season 3, courtesy of a new interview with Variety. That revelation might come as a surprise to series fans, some of whom have questioned the status of Goggins and Wood's friendship in the wake of the third season's debut earlier this spring. Feud rumors first circulated on the heels of comments by co-star Jason Isaacs, who repeatedly referred to 'social tensions' on the HBO drama's Thailand set. Those rumors were further inflamed by Goggins's physical separation from the rest of the ensemble cast, including Wood, post-wrap. As he explained to Variety, that distance wasn't personal: He's been preoccupied with production on Prime Video's Fallout season 2, and on the evening of The White Lotus season 3's finale, he was in New York for an appearance on a late-night show, far from his fellow cast members. In the latest chapter of showrunner Mike White's hit drama, Goggins and Wood play Rick and Chelsea, an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers who meet a heart-breaking fate in the finale episode. During the Variety interview, in which Wood and Goggins were interviewed jointly, Goggins turned to Wood to express his sorrow at having missed the cast's finale watch party. 'I wish I would have been able to watch this with you,' he shared. 'It was so cathartic and so painful, and I regret that. I really do.' But as the two explained in the cathartic tell-all, they have nothing but love to share with each other, and their rumored 'feud' largely amounts to public misconception. 'I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me,' Goggins said of Wood. '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.' In the days leading up to Goggins's recent Saturday Night Live hosting gig, the comedy show revealed a skit in which Sarah Sherman played a parody version of Wood's White Lotus character, Chelsea, complete with a pair of prosthetic buck teeth. Wood later went on Instagram to describe the sketch as 'mean and unfunny,' while Goggins reposted the clip and complimented its humor. Many viewers interpreted this move as a not-so-subtle swipe at Wood. Goggins told Variety it was anything but, and that after he encountered Wood's hurt response, he 'felt awful and deleted his post.' 'I've been posting for 14 fucking years, and if I'm gonna say something, I'm gonna say it to your face,' Goggins said. 'I don't use social media in any way, and I'm not a mean guy.' Added Wood, 'I think it's such a comment on where we're at culturally. Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don't give a shite about Instagram.' Goggins also addressed why he unfollowed Wood on Instagram after The White Lotus wrapped, as well as his recent interview with the U.K.'s Times, which was published with the title, 'Walton Goggins: Aimee Lou Wood? I'm not gonna have that conversation.' Regarding the Times story, Goggins said he simply did not feel as if a solo interview was the right time and space to address his relationship with Wood. 'What am I gonna do, speak for both of us? Never,' he said. Regarding Instagram, he explained that he unfollowed Wood as a way to distance himself not from Wood herself but from the experience of filming The White Lotus. 'My catharsis in this experience was different than other people's, because of my history in this place,' Goggins said of his time in Thailand, referencing his time spent traveling the country in the wake of his wife's suicide in 2004. 'I knew what [Aimee and I] 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 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.' He continued, 'I needed to just back away from everyone. I haven't spoken to anyone [from the cast]. I couldn't handle it. Judge me or don't. I don't give a fuck what you think. This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me. And so that's what I needed to do for me to process all of this.' At the end of their conversation, Variety reports that Goggins re-followed Wood on Instagram, and that they embraced. 'I completely understand,' Wood told him. His response: 'I love you.' If only Rick could have expressed his feelings with this much clarity!
The Age
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
In fluoro yellow Speedos, Walton Goggins, 53, is the real White Lotus star
With a receding hairline showcasing a forehead that's resisted the lure of Botox, 53-year-old The White Lotus actor Walton Goggins is an unlikely candidate for fashion stardom. On the cover of this month's US magazine Cultured, Goggins has defied the odds – and airbrushing – by demonstrating his style credentials in a brief yellow Speedo swimsuit and suede jacket from Italian luxury label Zegna. By the youth-obsessed standards of the fashion industry, where 16-year-olds can walk the runway at Australian Fashion Week, Goggins should be languishing in a quilted smoking jacket on the back pages of GQ, not manspreading in a banana hammock on this season's coolest cover, photographed by Sinna Nasseri. 'It was impossible to ignore Goggins' style in The White Lotu s,' says celebrity stylist Mikey Ayoubi. 'It was well considered to work with his looks. On the handsome scale, he sits somewhere between Jim Carrey and Colin Farrell. They all have a similar quality.' Goggins' run of recent covers, including UK title Man About Town, The Hollywood Reporter and You, signals a shift in menswear modelling, with Daniel Craig, 57, having demonstrated his quirky side in knitwear for Loewe, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, 59, appearing in advertising campaigns for Zegna, and the red-carpet collaborations between Prada and Jeff Goldblum, 72. 'The Daniel Craig Loewe campaign and Miu Miu sending established actors like Willem Dafoe down the runway has definitely revitalised the idea of the old bachelor in fashion,' Ayoubi says. Loading As some menswear brands continue to struggle financially, with Jeremy Hershan, the creative director of Australian label Haulier, announcing today that he would be placing his business into 'hibernation', the seniors style strategy is worth exploring. 'There's a relatability to these faces that is appealing to the luxury consumer,' says contributing Vogue stylist Carlos Mangubat. 'With women it's the supermodels from the '90s, like Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, that continue to engage with people. Older actors that are strangely familiar are the male version of that.
Sydney Morning Herald
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
In fluoro yellow Speedos, Walton Goggins, 53, is the real White Lotus star
With a receding hairline showcasing a forehead that's resisted the lure of Botox, 53-year-old The White Lotus actor Walton Goggins is an unlikely candidate for fashion stardom. On the cover of this month's US magazine Cultured, Goggins has defied the odds – and airbrushing – by demonstrating his style credentials in a brief yellow Speedo swimsuit and suede jacket from Italian luxury label Zegna. By the youth-obsessed standards of the fashion industry, where 16-year-olds can walk the runway at Australian Fashion Week, Goggins should be languishing in a quilted smoking jacket on the back pages of GQ, not manspreading in a banana hammock on this season's coolest cover, photographed by Sinna Nasseri. 'It was impossible to ignore Goggins' style in The White Lotu s,' says celebrity stylist Mikey Ayoubi. 'It was well considered to work with his looks. On the handsome scale, he sits somewhere between Jim Carrey and Colin Farrell. They all have a similar quality.' Goggins' run of recent covers, including UK title Man About Town, The Hollywood Reporter and You, signals a shift in menswear modelling, with Daniel Craig, 57, having demonstrated his quirky side in knitwear for Loewe, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, 59, appearing in advertising campaigns for Zegna, and the red-carpet collaborations between Prada and Jeff Goldblum, 72. 'The Daniel Craig Loewe campaign and Miu Miu sending established actors like Willem Dafoe down the runway has definitely revitalised the idea of the old bachelor in fashion,' Ayoubi says. Loading As some menswear brands continue to struggle financially, with Jeremy Hershan, the creative director of Australian label Haulier, announcing today that he would be placing his business into 'hibernation', the seniors style strategy is worth exploring. 'There's a relatability to these faces that is appealing to the luxury consumer,' says contributing Vogue stylist Carlos Mangubat. 'With women it's the supermodels from the '90s, like Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, that continue to engage with people. Older actors that are strangely familiar are the male version of that.
The Independent
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
White Lotus star's father responds following son's ‘insane' bedroom scene
The White Lotu s season three continues to stun audiences and the cast alike with its explicit storylines, often involving nudity and graphic sexual descriptions. This season has already seen fans exposed to numerous full-frontal male nudity scenes and a bizarre sexual confession from a top star making a surprise cameo. While audiences have shared their shock at some of the revelations in the show, it would appear that even some of the cast's relatives have been taken aback by what they have seen. Warning: The rest of this article contains spoilers about The White Lotus season three As fans will be fully aware, The White Lotus 's dysfunctional Ratliffe family have, among many problems, a slight issue with incest between its siblings, namely brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola). After kissing each other in episode six during their raucous night out with Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) the two brothers wake up naked in the same bed next to each other, with the two having little recollection of what happened. Saxon is later sickened when Chloe tells him that Lochlan became very 'hands-on' with him during an orgy. Speaking to Vanity Fair about the scene, Nivola said: 'It was f***ing insane. I had never even kissed anyone on camera, let alone done a sex scene. So that whole thing was really scary. I was on the phone with Patrick when we both knew we got the roles, and we were talking to each other about how we were going to play it. He said the scene where Chloe says to Saxon 'Your brother jerked you off last night' was in one of his audition sides. And I was like, 'What the f***? What?'' Responding to the revelation, Nivola's father, Alessandro, best known for his roles in The Brutalist, Face/Off and Goal wrote on X/Twitter: ' Hahaha. I hadn't heard this @SamNivola'. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has denied that he got his role in The White Lotus because of his Golden Globe-winning father, Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'I know there are people who'll say I only got this role because of who my dad is,' Patrick, 31, told The Sunday Times. 'They're not seeing that I've had 10 years of acting classes, put on [high] school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I've been on.' He added: 'Of course, it's frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn't have my last name. But, that's a small moment. I would never trade my life with anyone. I'm very fortunate to have the life and family that I have, the parents I have and the lessons and values they've instilled in me.'
