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He abruptly checked out.
According to London Times writer Ed Potton, an interview he conducted with Walton Goggins swiftly went “off-the-rails” and became “acrimonious” after he asked Goggins about his rumored feud with his “White Lotus” co-star Aimee Lou Wood, 31.
“I’m not gonna have that conversation,” Goggins, 53, said in the story, which was published Thursday.
The story describes how Goggins’ publicist also interjected to say, “We’re not going there, thank you.”
Later in the interview, the reporter describes how when he broached the topic of Wood again, the publicist interjected to suggest they talk about his upcoming film, “The Uninvited.”
“There is no conversation to be had about that,” Goggins said.
“Sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum.”
When Potton said he tried a third time, Goggins said, “What the f–, Ed! Come on buddy. Wow.”
The Post reached out to Goggins’ rep for comment.
Goggins and Wood starred as Rick and Chelsea, an ill-fated couple on vacation in Thailand, in Season 3 of the HBO hit, “The White Lotus.” Their co-stars included Jason Isaacs, Carrie Coon, Sam Rockwell, Leslie Bibb and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Every season of the Mike White dramedy follows dysfunctional characters on vacation at the titular resort before ending with a death. Both Rick and Chelsea were the Season 3 casualties, dying in a shootout that Rick instigated.
Neither Goggins or Wood have publicly addressed the feud rumors, which were caused in part by their co-star, Isaacs, who hinted at behind the scenes drama during a March interview with Vulture.
“It was like a cross between summer camp and ‘Lord of the Flies’ but in a gilded cage. It wasn’t a holiday,” Isaacs, 61, said.
“Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost.”
Isaacs didn’t name names, but fans speculated that he was referring to Goggins and Wood after viewers noticed the co-stars don’t follow each other on Instagram – even though Wood follows over 5,000 people.
In a Reddit thread, fans claimed that the unfollowing happened weeks ago. They also speculated that Goggins may have blocked Wood because all of her comments on his Instagram are gone. His previous comments on her page, meanwhile, are still up.
Both actors also shared photo tributes and tagged most of their co-stars — but not each other.
In February, Goggins told People about Wood, “She was the person that mattered most to me during this experience. Even though my friends were there, we both became [enmeshed] in each other in the way that Rick and Chelsea are. I think the world of her.”
Elsewhere in his Thursday interview with the London Times, Goggins said, “’The White Lotus’ is the Super Bowl of culture, a turbocharged experience, and Mike White is a very caring, kind, astute observer of the human condition. I’ve had a lot of crazy times in my life in front of and not in front of a camera, but this is certainly something that is profound, not just for me, but I think for everybody that has been a part of it.”
About rising to a higher level of fame from the show, the “Fallout” star replied: “It’s a blessing and a curse, isn’t it?”
“Honestly, buddy, and I really mean this, I treat those two impostors the same. My life was OK before ‘The White Lotus,’ my life will be OK after ‘The White Lotus,'” the “Justified” star continued. “I have had a career that has given me opportunities when I could handle them. If this had happened in my twenties or early thirties it would have been a very different reaction.”
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