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It’s Never Been More Personal for Walton Goggins
With Rick Hatchett, the White Lotus actor retraced a journey from two decades prior: “I understood, intimately, Rick’s frame of mind.”
“I got the monkey off my back,” Rick tells Chelsea in The White Lotus season finale, and Walton Goggins delivers the line with exhausted, aching relief. In this one, the last act of “Amor Fati” relies on Goggins’s ability to convey agony, fury, and despair as he cradles Chelsea’s body and is then shot himself, a series of events that teaches us a lesson about holding onto anger too long and breaks our hearts in the process. In a season obsessed with the impact of money on a person’s soul, whether scarcity can be as much a motivator as abundance, and the dilemma of what happens after giving one’s brother a hand job, Rick’s story was perhaps the most straightforward.
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