After season 3 of White Lotus dropped, fans were confused by what was happening with Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins. Now, a journalist wouldn’t take no for an answer when asking Goggins about it.
During the final episodes of the series, Goggins and Wood unfollowed each other on social media. It then turned into fans trying to figure out what happened and connecting everything through their use of the song “Silver Springs” by Fleetwood Mac. The online chatter was so loud that other cast members heard it and others like Jason Isaacs shut it down. Now, Goggins had to do it and was clearly not happy about it.
Goggins was doing an interview with The London Times about his new movie, The Uninvited, that was written and directed by his wife, Nadia Conners. The film is about a wife feeling overshadowed by her husband and Goggins stars in it. So interviewer Ed Potton straight up asked Goggins if the movie was autobiographical.
“Wow—— I’m so happy that you’re getting in there,” Goggins said to him, “looking a bit less than happy,” before going on to say “She’s brought up a subject that certainly in our country is taboo. I don’t think my wife is alone in feeling marginalized and incapable of sharing the isolation of this experience.”
If you think that’s the worse this interview got, think again. Potton basically questioned Goggins’ sex appeal, brought up traumatizing moments from Goggins past, and then brought up the rumored rift between Goggins and Wood. He had nothing to but nice things to say about her and yet Potton kept bringing it up instead of talking about The Uninvited.
The publicists tried to keep Potton on topic
As someone who does celebrity interviews, I try my best to keep things on topic. If they are talking to me about a movie, I’m not going to bring up some other project. At least not more than the movie itself. But it was so bad that the British publicist (according to the piece) spoke up, saying “Shall we talk about The Uninvited a bit more?”
Goggins even had something to say about the situation and responded by saying “Thinly veiled, my friend. The thing you’re least interested in.” Instead, Potton brought up Wood AGAIN and Goggins had to say that there wasn’t a conversation to be had. “There is no conversation to be had about that. Sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum.” Don’t worry, did you think he was done? Nope! He did it again and Goggins even called him out further. “What the f***, Ed!” Goggins said. “Come on buddy. Wow.”
This should be a lesson to all who do interviews that this doesn’t do anything for you. The subject isn’t going to talk to you and, like in this case, it ends your interview early all because you couldn’t take the hint to stop asking questions that had nothing to do with the project they were there to promote!
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