The White Lotus season 3 ended with a jaw-dropping shootout resulting in the deaths of Chelsea and Rick, a true shock to the system despite the fact that the clues were kinda there all along.
“It was weird because for two weeks before we shot it, I felt super weird,” Aimee Lou Wood said while recalling Chelea’s tragic end during a viewing party. “It felt like this odd, ominous thing. It was the hottest day ever and Walton had to carry me so many times. It looked exactly how it felt, which is really strange. There’s a lot in that episode that made me fucking sob. I feel ache-y.”
“And also, you know, Chelsea doesn’t know what’s gonna happen to her, but I know, so it’s this odd thing,” she added, noting that the scene “looked exactly how it felt, which is really strange.”
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Meanwhile, Walton Goggins paid tribute to Rick and Chelsea’s relationship on Instagram with a touching tribute.
“Rick + Chelsea. With the heaviest of hearts… To me, ours was a love story,” he wrote. “It was only ever a love story, hindered by unresolved, childhood trauma. We all have them… but can we move past them. In the depths of our despair there is always beauty around us. If we can sit with our pain, just sit with it… not react… not be defined by it…It’s there… the love the world is constantly giving in any given moment is there. Always waiting for us to see it… Trust me I know.”
Walton went on to thank White Lotus creator Mike White for his imagination, as well as Aimee “for being my partner… a journey I will never forget.” He ended his post with the quote, “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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