Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins are set to work together again amid intense rumors of a feud, it has been claimed.
The pair recently shared the screen in the White Lotus, playing couple Chelsea and Rick in the third season, which was set at a luxury resort in Thailand.
After their characters met a very tragic end in the season three finale, they have been at the center of fall-out claims, with eagle-eyed fans noticing that they no longer follow each other on social media.
However, the speculation may amount to nothing after it was alleged that Walton, 53, and Aimee, 31, will be reuniting professionally ‘in the coming weeks’.
During an appearance on the Viall Files podcast, CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister was questioned over the scrutiny, and told hosts Nick Viall and Natalie Joy: ‘The only thing that I will say – I was told this off the record – but there is something professionally that they are doing in the coming weeks together.
‘So, if there really is a feud, this has not stopped them… It’s not like they can’t be in the same room, is my point. Because I am told that there is something on the books.
‘Also, work is work, right? So, if you have to do something for work… Look, they’re about to go into a giant Emmy campaign, every person in that show is going to be nominated. They’re going to have to be in the same room.’
‘I’m told they are going to be doing something for work in the next few weeks,’ she added.
‘I have no idea if there’s really a feud or not, it could just be a bunch of nonsense.’
Aimee and Walton have been plagued by feud claims since the third series of the White Lotus aired, but have remained tight-lipped over the rumors.
Their Instagram antics raised eyebrows with fans, who noticed that they no longer follow each other on the platform, despite posting pictures and dedicating captions to their bond.
Many also spotted that the stars continued to upload the pictures without tagging the other – scrutiny ramped up over the weekend when Walton publicly praised a sketch on SNL, which poked fun at the White Lotus.
In the same skit, Sarah Sherman impersonated Chelsea by wearing exaggerated prosthetic teeth, something Aimee blasted as ‘mean and unfunny’ – after she previously voiced frustrations that people were focusing on her teeth instead of her work.
Walton also made headlines when he spoke out over filming the HBO series in Thailand, admitting that he feared he was being a ‘downer’ on set because he was so consumed by his character.
‘I was just consumed by the story,’ he told the Hollywood Reporter. ‘It got to a place where they would just put my chair somewhere different on set or I’d sit on a rock away from everybody and wait for the weekends to hang out with people.
‘But Aimee and I became very close, very quickly, and a part of that was because when everyone else was like, “Oh, just leave that guy alone,” Aimee constantly came and poked me.’
Touching on her own experience with the Guardian, Aimee recalled: ‘I don’t know whether I would describe it as fun.
‘I was amazed by what was happening. How am I in Thailand? Living in a hotel, that we also film in? It was like a social experiment.
‘I will never have an experience like that again. It was so extreme. So the fun bits were unbelievable, so special.
‘The ocean, the landscape, it was majestic. Mike is a genius. Everyone involved is amazing, it’s just the circumstances are quite extreme.’
Many cast members have spoken about their experience while filming the HBO series out in Thailand, with Jason Isaacs teasing that ‘friendships were lost’ between some cast members behind the scenes.
‘It was like a cross between summer camp and Lord of the Flies but in a gilded cage,’ he added to Vulture of the cast dynamics. ‘It wasn’t a holiday. Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost.
‘All the things you would imagine with a group of people unanchored from their home lives on the other side of the world, in the intense pressure cooker of the working environment with eye-melting heat and insects and late nights.
‘They say in the show, “What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,” but there’s an off-screen White Lotus as well, with fewer deaths but just as much drama.’
‘Absolutely not,’ he laughed when asked if he could share some of the drama. ‘I became very close to some people and less close to others, but we still all had that experience together and there’s a certain level of discretion required.’
Metro has contacted reps for Aimee and Walton for a comment.
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