Goggins explained that since wrapping the show, he had been working intense weeks on his post-apocalyptic TV series Fallout. While the White Lotus cast watched the finale together at the aforementioned event, he was in New York for a late-night appearance.
“I probably wouldn’t have gone anyways,” he told Variety. But as their interview progresses, both begin to tear up. They embrace for so long that the Variety team voices a little bit of discomfort. “I wish I would have been able to watch this with you,” he told Wood. “It was so cathartic and so painful, and I regret that. I really do.” They keep hugging, laughing, holding hands, and exchanging compliments through the profile.
Goggins also voices how awful he felt after sharing the SNL skit parodying Wood, immediately deleting it when he saw how she felt. (Wood described the “caricature” as “misogynistic”).
On the drama of it all? Goggins addressed that too. “There is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me,” he said, gesturing to Wood. “This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will. You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be. I’ll be on an island, I think Greece. But she’s special. There is no feud. She is love and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply.”
Wood also responded to the Instagram unfollowing. “I think it’s such a comment on where we’re at culturally. Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don’t give a shite about Instagram,” she said. “Why not have conversations about the story and Rick and Chelsea and enjoy it?”
Wood shared that she initially wanted to correct people, but knew anything she said would get twisted: “Eventually, I just started to sit back and watch these people making something out of absolutely nothing.”
Wrapping up, Goggins got his phone from the other room and added himself back to Wood’s list of three million followers. (Eagle-eyed fans spotted this last month).
“Hopefully that answers everybody’s questions,” he concluded.