It appears that Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood might be teaming up again after filming The White Lotus season 3.
CNN journalist Elizabeth Wagmeister claimed on the Thursday, April 17, episode of “The Viall Files” podcast that she heard rumblings that Goggins, 53, and Wood, 31, might have another joint project in the works.
“I was told this off the record, but there is something professionally that they are doing in the coming weeks together,” Wagmeister teased. “So, if there really is a feud, this has not stopped them. It’s not like they can’t be in the same room — is my point.”
According to the Emmy-nominated reporter who’s previously covered entertainment for Variety before joining CNN in 2023, “there is something on the books.”
“Also, work is work,” Wagmeister said to podcast host Nick Viall. “If you have to do something for work, look, they’re about to go into a giant Emmy campaign. Like, every person is going to be nominated. They’re going to have to be in the same room. … I have no idea if there’s a feud or not. It could be all nonsense. Who knows?”
Goggins and Wood, who have not publicly addressed speculation of a post-White Lotus project, played a couple, Rick and Chelsea, on the latest season of the hit HBO anthology. As season 3 premiered earlier this year, fans wondered if the two actors were at odds after costar Jason Isaacs alleged that some “friendships that were lost” during production.
“Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost,” Isaacs, 61, told Vulture in March, without mentioning specific individuals by name. “All the things you would imagine with a group of people unanchored from their home lives on the other side of the world, in the intense pressure cooker of the working environment with eye-melting heat and insects and late nights.”
He added, “They say in the show, ‘What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand.’ But there’s an off-screen White Lotus as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama.”
When pressed if he wanted to elaborate, Isaacs declined with a laugh.
“Absolutely not,” Isaacs stated. “I became very close to some people and less close to others, but we still all had that experience together and there’s a certain level of discretion required.”
Neither Goggins nor Wood has addressed whether they are at odds, though eagle-eyed fans have claimed that they are not following one another on Instagram. The actors have, however, been grateful for their experience as scene partners.
“Thank you, Aimee Lou, for being my partner,” Goggins gushed via Instagram earlier this month. “A journey I will never forget.”
