What started out as stray cast comments about offscreen tension turned into rumors about a feud between The White Lotus love interests Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood. The White Lotus, which premiered in 2021,

For Walton Goggins, the wait was considerably longer. The apparent culmination of his antihero's journey 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.

I realized that there was really no other conclusion,” the actor said in an interview on Monday about the season finale.