This is how you close down the " net sleuth . "
It’s fair to say the beef might not apply toJason Isaacsand Walton Goggins, despite these two actors seemingly being the cause of the gossip train.
Jason played the wealthy hot-mess patriarch and North Carolina financier Timothy Ratliff in Season 3 ofThe White Lotus.
Walton played the vengeful and not-so-inquisitive boyfriend Rick Hatchett in the same season.
In an interview with theGuardian, Jason described filmingThe White Lotusas a “theater camp, but to some extent an open prison camp,” adding, “You couldn’t avoid one other. 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. There were alliances that formed and broke, romances that formed and broke, friendships that formed and broke.”
“I can’t pretend I wasn’t involved in some off-screen drama…” Jason continued. “There were times when things were not quite so fond. I was in some ways used to it, but within a couple of weeks my wife [who was with him on set and used to be an actor] went, ‘Some of these people are fucking mad.’ I said, ‘No, it’s just a bunch of actors away on location, love. You’ve forgotten what it’s like.'”
Similarly, Walton talked about his experience forCultured, saying, “Someone I worked with onThe White Lotusdidn’t fully understand my process,” he admitted. “My character — Rick Hatchett — he’s isolated. So during filming, I was isolated. I liked mirroring that, but it was emotionally difficult.”
“Then, a few months intoThe White Lotus,Falloutpremiered and started to take off. One day, this actor I was working with — nice guy, good actor — came up to me and said, ‘You’re brilliant inFallout. Please tell me you had a good time making that.'”
“I just stared at him,” Walton continued. “Because he didn’t get it. I don’t care how good you are — if you don’t understand that there’s a world beyond the script, if you don’t give yourself over to it, then you’re missing something profound in this work. This is the drug. I said: ‘No. I play a guy who’s lived for 200 years and seen the worst of humanity. Every day was fucking horrible.’ He just stared back at me like: ‘OK, wow.'”
However, on May 3, Jasonsharedtwo photos on Instagram to put the speculation to rest that there’s any beef between him and Walton at least.
“Guess who was on my plane?” theHarry Potteractor wrote in the Instagram caption.
Jason also called out the internet rumor mill, writing, “Hey, all you genius online sleuths — see any beef?!! #RicksAlive!!!”
Walton shared the same photo on his Instagram story, writing, “Got to hug Timothy Ratliff yesterday.”
In Jason’s Instagram post, he also tagged the official account for Duke University, where his character, Timothy, went to college and wore a T-shirt with the school’s logo. After his character imagined a murder-suicide while wearing the Duke shirt, the university released a statement condemning the episode.
Jason toldRob Loweon theLiterally! With Rob Lowepodcast that he was “pretty sure they got it cleared because, as you know, you don’t ever go on television without getting all the logos cleared.”
I’m living for Jason and Walton’s cheeky era!
