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Thank You God for All This Goggins
HBO Sunday nights are showing off every inch of Walton Goggins’s talent, in more ways than one.
On The White Lotus, he plays Rick, a walking bummer of a man who travels to a fancy resort in Thailand for reasons that have less to do with spa treatments and meditation than with a lifelong quest for revenge. Both of them are guided by a similar motivation, a feeling that something was denied to them — for Rick, the happiness he could have had; for Baby Billy, the success he felt entitled to — and a burning desire to get their hands on it, even if it means coloring outside the lines. Baby Billy showed up in the second episode of The Righteous Gemstones ’s final season — we had to go on a little detour to the Civil War with Bradley Cooper first — and promptly pulled his pants down to reveal his own little Baby Billy in order to impress upon his nephews and niece “what a fuckin’ man looks like.” There is a long history of actors on this show, to use Danny McBride’s term, “hanging dong,” and even though Goggins has confirmed that said dong was, to use his term, a “dick double,” just watching him gleefully take part in that grand Gemstones tradition is a wonderful treat.
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