Walton Goggins as Rick in The White Lotus

Ask most of the cast of The White Lotus, and they’ll tell you how much fun they had behind the scenes during the seven months they spent filming in Thailand.

But this seemingly wasn’t the case for Walton Goggins.

While most of the characters are put through the ringer during their stay at the luxury Thai resort, Rick (played by Walton in the series), by contrast, arrives already troubled.

Speaking to the official White Lotus podcast earlier this month, the two-time Emmy nominee said he found it hard “to not stay in it” when the cameras weren’t rolling, which resulted in him often deliberateldistancing himself from his co-stars.

“What was the hardest part about this experience for me early on was being – excuse my language – the fucking downer in the room,” he revealed.

He continued: “Showing up to work every day with 18 people, and a green room that’s full of chairs of 18 people that are in a much different place emotionally than I am at the beginning of the story, was very difficult.

“More often than not, my chair is separate. I sit on my own. I do my own thing.”

“I couldn’t be around them,” Walton recalled. “They didn’t understand why I was there. This guy is isolated.

“And that wasn’t any fun, you know, to separate yourself from a group in that way. That was really, really challenging.”

Walton Goggins on set with Aimee Lou Wood early on in the season

Because of this, Walton’s experience was “more isolating than I anticipated”, which “reverberated throughout the whole experience for me”.

Later in the interview, he opened up about filming the characters’ yacht........

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