Walton Goggins Gets Candid About Why Making “The White Lotus” Was So ‘Difficult’ For Him
However, it’s worth pointing out that during a video interview with Elle last month, Aimee Lou Wood named Walton and Leslie Bibb as the two co-stars she had the most fun with behind the scenes of The White Lotus.
“I am a Scorpio moon, and Leslie Bibb and Walton Goggins are Scorpio suns, and we were the Scorpio three,” she recalled. “We had a group called Jackson Brown, because we used to just sit and listen to Jackson Brown and drink cocktails and eat fries…
“The most fun [time] was listening to Leslie and Walton tell stories and listening to Jackson Brown. It was the best ever.”
Meanwhile, during a candid interview with GQ published last month, Walton shared that Thailand held a troubling personal connection for him, as he travelled there shortly after his wife’s suicide.
He told the magazine that he even wound up filming outside the same hotel he’d stayed in decades earlier on one of his first days on set.
“I was like, ‘I know this dock. What? OK. Yeah. No. I know this. Oh my God. That’s the room I stayed in 20 years ago. That’s my balcony’,” he explained.
“That’s where I was the very first day I came here, 20 years ago, and in so much fucking pain, man.
“We got out of the boat, and that’s where we were filming, man – all of the equipment was literally right in front of the hotel that I’d picked 20 years ago on the internet, on this little bitty road in this little bitty neighbourhood.”
He continued: “I thought, God, I wish I could hug that guy. I wish I could whisper in his ear, ‘You’re going to be OK. Life continues, and it continues for everybody if you can just hold on and lean into it and keep walking the walk that you’re walking, and keep looking for the answers’.”.
Just one episode remains in the current series of The White Lotus, the first of which will be available to watch on Monday in the UK on Sky and Now.
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