‘White Lotus’: Aimee Lou Wooden and Walton Goggins on Chelsea and Rick’s Relationship

Warning: Main spoilers forward for “The White Lotus” season three.

Chelsea’s warning that “dangerous issues occur in threes” got here true on Sunday within the season three finale of “The White Lotus,” when, after escaping a theft and being bitten by a snake at a reptile present, she lastly met her finish.

The hopeless romantic performed by Aimee Lou Wooden died within the crossfire of the present’s much-teased shootout, which ended up being between her evasive, impulsive boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins) and newly armed lodge guards, who got here after Rick after he shot Jim (Scott Glenn), whom he believed killed his father (however, plot twist: Jim is Rick’s father).

The couple’s remaining scene exhibits Chelsea and Rick mendacity lifeless within the water, their our bodies and fates intertwined. Eagle-eyed followers identified that the composition of their our bodies within the shot even resembles a Yinyang image, a callback to Chelsea’s earlier remark that she and Rick are in a “yin and yang battle, and I am hope, and Rick is ache.”

Finally, as Chelsea says, one among them will win. And it seems, it was Rick.

Each Goggins and Wooden are in settlement that their characters’ ending was tragic.

“She’s essentially the most hopeful character on the present and that is why she has to die, however clearly on a human degree it’s actually fricking unhappy,” Wooden defined to GQ on April 7.

In an interview with Vulture revealed the identical day, Goggins described Chelsea because the “very factor that he had been searching for his complete life,” which had been “staring him within the face.”

“That is the irony, and that is the fucking tragedy,” he added.

The present has made it clear that Chelsea and Rick are very completely different individuals in the way in which that they see the world. And it seems that in actual life, Wooden and Goggins additionally differ in how they view the connection between their characters.

Wooden informed GQ that she thinks Rick and Chelsea’s relationship was one-sided.

“I feel it is actually confronting for some as a result of there’s lots of people which were Chelsea and it is painful while you love somebody and so they’re not providing you with something again. It fucking hurts,” she mentioned. “It is solely after you allow that relationship that you just go, ‘What the fuck was I doing for thus lengthy, how did I try this?'”

Goggins, nevertheless, has a extra romantic view of the couple, describing them as “soul mates” when chatting with The New York Occasions.

“Do they deserve one another? In fact they do. They’re soul mates. Anybody [who disagrees], you are in an arrested state of improvement, otherwise you’re incapable of seeing the nuance on this story,” he mentioned.

However regardless of the distinction of opinion, Goggins heaped reward on Wooden.

“Aimee Lou is an actual sweetheart. I have been round a very long time. I’ve had chemistry with plenty of completely different individuals in plenty of completely different genres. Proper off the bat, the very first time that we met in Thailand, the chemistry was there,” he mentioned. “It was as if we had been pals and soul mates on some degree for a really very long time.”

“The White Lotus” season 3 is streaming in full on Max.