Walton Goggins’ Shady Reaction to ‘Mean’ & ‘Unfunny’ SNL Skit Proves Aimee Lou Wood Feud Is Alive & Well
The feud rumors are alive and well when it comes to The White Lotus stars Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood. And Goggins just keeps adding fuel to the fire every time he goes on social media these days. Yes, this is true even though The White Lotus Season 3 is now officially done, and we should all be done talking not just about the show but about what happened behind the scenes.
Enter Goggins’s reaction to the SNL skit about The White Lotus, the same one Aimee Lou Wood called “mean” and “unfunny.” In the sketch, comedian Sarah Sherman parodies Aimee Lou Wood’s character of Chelsea by wearing fake teeth. Wood wrote on her Instagram Stories about it, saying that the show could have taken a “cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap” approach considering “a big gap, not bad teeth.”
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The actress later confirmed she’d received an apology from SNL.
But Goggins clearly found it funny anyway, and funny enough to repost on his own Instagram stories even after Wood had already complained about the sketch, calling it “smashing.” Worst of all, he then deleted the story. This comes after weeks of what has been described as a feud between Goggins and Wood, who played love interests Rick and Chelsea on the show, with the two coming to a tragic demise in the finale.
Rumors of their feud started after fans noticed the two didn’t follow each other on Instagram anymore. Not just that, the internet noticed Goggins must have blocked Wood because her comments on his previous posts are not showing up, while his still appear on her posts. The rumors intensified when, after the finale, the two posted tributes to their characters without tagging each other.
Jason Isaacs, who played Timothy Ratliff, explained that the set was complicated, to say the least. “It was a theatre camp, but to some extent an open prison camp: you couldn’t avoid one other,” the actor told The Guardian. “There are tensions and difficulties, I don’t know if they spilled from on screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway.”
He added, “There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke. It’s a long period of time for people to be away from their family with an open bar and all the wildness being in Thailand allows.”
Fast forward to now, and we have not just Goggins sharing the post that Wood found hurtful, but also commenting on the “SNL” Instagram account, “Hahahahahhahaha Amazzzingggg.” Suffice it to say they didn’t just see this skit differently; Goggins didn’t seem to care about Wood’s feelings about it. Or, well, he did block her, so perhaps he didn’t actually see it until someone pointed it out. Ooops.
This isn’t even the only drama on the set of The White Lotus. The show’s composer Cristóbal Tapia de Vee abruptly quit the series recently, telling the New York Times that he and creator Mike White “had our last fight forever” and couldn’t get on the same page because White “was just saying no to anything.”
The White Lotus has already been renewed for Season 4, though no cast or location has been announced for the upcoming season.
