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‘White Lotus’ Star Walton Goggins on Rick’s Catharsis in Episode 7: ‘I Had Goddamn Rainbows Shooting Out of My Heart’
Walton Goggins explains his confrontation scene with Scott Glenn, and Rick's smile in the final scene.
Goggins, a TV veteran with credits ranging from “Justified” to “Fallout,” spoke with Variety ahead of Episode 7’s airing to discuss what it took to elicit that smile, working with creator Mike White, why critics of Rick’s relationship with Chelsea are “fucking boring” — and what it was like to shoot the season’s most viral scene opposite his close friend Rockwell. Getting off the boat at the end of Episode 6, seeing him for the first time through Rick’s eyes — I just remember sitting there transfixed, looking at the features on his face, running through every single moment this person has been in the fucking room with me for 53 years. I thought the scene in Episode 5 where Sam Rockwell’s character is unburdening himself about his sexual desires was a really impressive two-hander, because it takes a very skilled actor to convey active listening and being present.
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