SPOILERS are forward for The White Lotus finale, now streaming with a Max subscription.
The White Lotus could also be over on the 2025 TV schedule, however that doesn’t imply I received’t be occupied with that emotional finale for weeks to come back. The final episode of Season 3 was filled with surprises, however the one I can’t get out of my head is how Chelsea and Rick each ended up being useless our bodies. It was particularly irritating as a result of Aimee Lou Wooden’s Chelsea was so harmless, and it felt like she may have undoubtedly saved herself by merely strolling away.
Nevertheless, when Wooden spoke to Bustle concerning the finale, she shared a heart-achingly stable motive why that was not within the playing cards for Chelsea. Throughout the interview, it was introduced up how the fan-favorite character appeared to really feel like she may “repair” Walton Goggins’ Rick, however the actress introduced up how we will’t repair Chelsea both. In her phrases:
Patrick [Schwarzenegger] was devastated that Saxon didn’t take a bullet for Chelsea. He was like, ‘I need Saxon to die for Chelsea.’ And I’m saying, ‘However you may’t save Chelsea.’ Saxon can’t save Chelsea in the best way that Chelsea can’t save Rick. Folks say, ‘Rick ought to by no means have taken Chelsea to Thailand and put her in hurt’s manner.; Do you assume Rick was going ‘Chelsea, please come on my revenge quest?’ No, he was most likely saying ‘Go residence.’ Take a look at [when] she sees Rick kill Jim, she doesn’t run away. She walks in the direction of it.
That is an especially good level. Whereas it’s straightforward to make Chelsea a sufferer of circumstance, below her free will, she was with Rick, and regardless of all of the crimson flags and considerations in entrance of her, she selected to run towards the fireplace. As she talked about, her co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger was even bummed that his character couldn’t have died over her, however as she continued:
She isn’t [helpless]. She is a tenacious, decided, sturdy love addict. Her larger energy has turn into Rick and the connection. When he says, ‘We’re going to be collectively endlessly. That’s the plan,’ she sees God in that second.
She went on to say that possibly if her character actually labored on herself, she would have made a unique selection. Nevertheless, tragically, that is not the way it went down:
If she went to remedy and did some deep interior work, she would most likely have made a unique selection. However that is what she needed. When she says, ‘Is that this a sort of ‘You killed my father, put together to die’ factor?’ He says, ‘I don’t know.’ Now, anybody of their proper thoughts discovering out that their boyfriend could be a killer will go, ‘I’m going to step away now, darling.’ However she hugs him. She’s not scared. She’s so childlike, curious, endearing, humorous, and beautiful that folks wish to save her. However she’s a grown lady.
There’s numerous speak about Rick being the one to be nervous about as a result of he was on a revenge mission to kill the person who killed his father. Nevertheless, Chelsea sees and hears the place Rick is in, and fairly than saving herself, she chooses the trail of loving him and sticking by him, even attempting to “save” him throughout their Thailand trip.
Throughout the interview, Wooden additionally shared how she thinks the character has “a lot shit she has not handled and processes” and appears to issues just like the zodiac, spirituality books, aphorisms and mantras to appease and make sense of issues. And whereas Chelsea thinks she’s being drawn to Rick by means of “destiny,” it’s actually “some unhealed shit.”
Wooden’s feedback about Chelsea supply some larger insights into what her character and Rick are exploring because the season itself as an entire bought into the theme of spirituality and faith with its varied characters. We have been spending our time having theories about Rick and his father, however I can’t consider I didn’t see Chelsea and Rick’s emotional demise scenes coming.
As we proceed to course of the season, try the forged’s picks for Season 4 actors and our ideas about the place The White Lotus may very well be set.