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 scene
00:22during Sunday's episode of The White Lotus.
00:24Warning, major spoilers from The White Lotus 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.
00:45It 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 4 for the audience to really understand the motivations for this guy
01:11where everybody else's motivations are pretty clear, you know, in Episode 1.
01:17His motivations were, of course, revenge.
01:19Goggins shared this about filming the scene where Rick confronts Jim, played by Scott Glenn.
01:23Rick, he's just a lost boy, isn't he?
01:27You know, and he's just looking for answers as much as he's looking for revenge.
01:34And over the course of that conversation, predicated on
01:40the things that had happened before at the White Lotus and, you know,
01:48things that he's kind of come in his life or maybe he was always capable of this transition,
01:52but are reaching this level.
01:55But he saw him for who he was.
01:58Rick, of course, decides to spare Jim in that moment.
02:15And true to the indulgent spirit of The White Lotus,
02:17the abandoned revenge killing is followed by a Bangkok bender,
02:21with Sam Rockwell's character Frank abandoning his sobriety.
02:24And while Frank really lives it up,
02:25it's Rick who looks happiest with the events of the day.
02:27As an actor, all of a sudden, you know,
02:3210,000 pounds off my shoulder was lifted.
02:37And that smile was so genuine.
02:44It was real, you know?
02:47And getting to go through that experience with Sam Rockwell,
02:52was arguably one of the great times of my life.
03:04The White Lotus will release its season three finale on Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO and Max.
03:09For more on this story, go to THR.com.
03:11This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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