Of the hidden messages featured all through Mike White’s HBO anthology collection “The White Lotus,” one of many stronger connections hinted at on this season’s installment is Rick’s relationship to snakes. Performed by Walton Goggins, Rick is a Scorpio who’s arrived at The White Lotus Thailand with girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden) underneath mysterious circumstances and with presumably nefarious motives. Along with his astrological signal drawing consideration this relationship with snakes, in Episode 2, Rick additionally attends a snake present that sees him try and set all the cage-bound reptiles free.
Whereas Rick could look after this slithery creatures, Goggins not too long ago instructed Jimmy Kimmel throughout an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” that he discovered capturing the scene to be absolute torture.
“I don’t simply have a phobia — it’s like a lacking hyperlink with regards to snakes,” Goggins mentioned. “I’m scared of snakes — actually, actually terrified — and there’s one thing, like, genetically mistaken with me with regards to snakes.”
Although the animal handler briefed him completely on all of the types of snake he’d be working and which of them to keep away from, as soon as the director referred to as motion, Goggins instantly began to panic. Nonetheless, he continued, however maybe ought to’ve taken a second to settle down earlier than doing so.
“As I used to be pulling the snake out, he didn’t wanna come, proper? And so he turns round and he bit me,” mentioned Goggins. He added later of his response, “I want I may’ve been cool — like I fancy myself a reasonably cool man. Like, ‘Hey, yeah, I bought a snakebite.’ This was my response: I swear to God, it was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been bit by a snake! Oh my God!’”
Fortunately, the snake in query wasn’t that venomous and Goggins solely wanted a bit antibiotic ointment earlier than leaping again into the shoot. Nevertheless, as soon as producers bought phrase of what occurred, they did really feel it was greatest for Goggins to go to the hospital.
“I mentioned, ‘For what? You mentioned the snake was nonvenomous, proper? Am I dying a sluggish demise? Is there one thing you realize I don’t know?,’” Goggins instructed Kimmel.
He added of the general expertise, “It was a nightmare for me — actually, genuinely. It was two days of like, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I can’t,’ and so they had any individual proper off digicam, as quickly as I’d choose a snake up, I’d convey it over and put it of their arms like, ‘Oh my God,’ and virtually f**king cross out each time.”
Watch Goggins’ full look on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” beneath.