Walton Goggins says he waited six months (and seven hours) to film that highly anticipated scene during Sunday's episode of 'The White Lotus.' Warning! Major spoilers from 'The White Lotus' season three, episode seven ahead! Goggins told The Hollywood Reporter that the apparent culmination of his antihero's journey — where his character Rick confronts the man he believes killed his father — wasn't filmed until almost the very end of the Thailand shoot, and the relief on his face at the end of the episode is as much his own as it is Rick's.
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00:00The build-up to this episode, Seven, I knew it six months earlier, seven, eight months earlier,
00:09I read all of the scripts and I knew what it would take in order to get to that moment,
00:15and it was all building towards that.
00:17Walton Goggins says he waited six months and seven hours to film that highly-anticipated
00:22scene during Sunday's episode of The White Lotus. Warning, major spoilers from The White
00:26Lotus Season 3, Episode 7, ahead.
00:29Goggins told The Hollywood Reporter that the apparent culmination of his anti-hero's journey,
00:33where his character Rick confronts the man he believes killed his father,
00:37wasn't filmed until almost the very end of the Thailand shoot,
00:40and the relief on his face at the end of the episode is as much his own as it is Rick's.
00:44It took me six months and seven hours of this experience to smile, to really smile.
00:58Goggins has not been shy about how difficult The White Lotus shoot was for him.
01:02Rick's reasons for being so surly weren't revealed until the season was halfway done.
01:06It takes until episode four for the audience to really understand the motivations for this guy,
01:11where everybody else's motivations are pretty clear, you know, in episode one.
01:17His motivations were, of course, revenge.
01:19Goggins shared this about filming the scene where Rick confronts Jim, played by Scott Glenn.
01:24Rick is, he's just a lost boy, isn't he? You know, and he's just looking for,
01:30for answers as much as he's looking for revenge. And over the course of that conversation,
01:37predicated on the things that had happened before at The White Lotus, and, you know,
01:45things that he's kind of come in his life, or maybe he was always capable of this transition,
01:49but are reaching this level. But he saw him for who he was. And all of the pain and
01:58all of the power that this man had over me was gone. That there was no boogeyman in the closet
02:11anymore. Rick, of course, decides to spare Jim in that moment. And true to the indulgent spirit
02:16of The White Lotus, the abandoned revenge killing is followed by a Bangkok bender,
02:20with Sam Rockwell's character Frank abandoning his sobriety. And while Frank really lives it up,
02:25it's Rick who looks happiest with the events of the day.
02:28I remember when I was an actor, all of a sudden, you know,
02:3410,000 pounds off my shoulder was lifted. And that smile was so genuine. It was real, you know?
02:48Getting to go through that experience with Sam Rockwell was arguably one of the great times of
03:03my life. The White Lotus will release its season 3 finale on Sunday at 9pm on HBO and Max.
03:09For more on this story, go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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