Bear in mind final yr when Fallout got here out? Walton Goggins had the web blowing up over a “homeless radioactive cowboy with no nostril” for the online game adaptation. Not even a yr later, the actor is in one of many greatest reveals on the 2025 TV schedule as the mysterious Rick Hatchett in White Lotus Season 3. When his White Lotus girlfriend Aimee Lou Wooden was requested about his “heartthrob standing,” she had an attention-grabbing perspective on working with him as Fallout was rolling out.
Aimee Lou Wooden is simply as a lot of a standout as Walton Goggins is on The White Lotus, as Rick’s associate Chelsea. Whereas she’s simply making an attempt to have a enjoyable trip in Thailand together with her man, there’s clearly one thing darkish and sinister forward for Rick. Right here’s what Wooden instructed Decider about working with the actor final yr on the identical time Fallout grew to become a world hit on Amazon Prime:
I truly really feel like Walton’s heartthrob standing grew. I believe he was already a heartthrob, after all he’s, and I assumed he was already. However when Fallout got here out and The Ghoul did bizarre issues to individuals it received greater. So while we have been filming the heartthrob factor grew to become increasingly more of a factor.
The White Lotus forged have been capturing Season 3 for seven months between February and August. (Because the forged instructed CinemaBlend, they spent most of their time on the very fancy 4 Seasons resort alongside one another the place they filmed.) As you could recall, Fallout premiered for these with an Amazon Prime subscription on April 10 of final yr.
This meant that the forged received to be round as Walton Goggins was changing into much more well-known for his function as The Ghoul on the sequence – which included lots of thirsty followers. Wooden additionally stated this:
However yeah, I used to be saying, he needed to be Rick to me. He could not be Walton Goggins, as a result of if he was Walton Goggins I would be sat there going ‘I am appearing with Walton Goggins, and I am freaking out.’ So he was simply Rick.
Aimee Lou Wooden is having her personal second of gaining viral reputation proper now, after attending to share tons of scenes with Walton Goggins in The White Lotus. Understanding how well-liked and beloved the actor is, the actress may have let intimidation get to her, however she determined she wanted to deal with him like his character reasonably than let herself “freak” out.
Although, we’d assume she would have been much more intimidated if she was working alongside The Ghoul, requiring the actor in hours of prosthetics – which at first took 5 hours earlier than the make-up workforce received the method down to 2 hours. When the actor shot the function, he had instructed Selection it was “fucking scorching” and it’d be “exhausting” on the finish day-after-day. In fact, we’ve heard Thailand was additionally steamy. That, or Walton Goggins formally heats up any room he’s in.
You’ll be able to catch the most recent episode of The White Lotus on HBO and with a Max subscription this Sunday.