Yahoo Lifestyle Walton Goggins Reveals He Was Bitten by a Snake on “White Lotus” Set During That Scene and Had to Go to the Hospital
Goggins revealed that he was "crying uncontrollably" while filming snake scene for 'The White Lotus' before he was bitten and sent to the hospital
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Walton Goggins on season 3 of 'The White Lotus'.Walton Goggins faced one of his biggest fears while filming The White Lotus in Thailand.
In episode 3 of the HBO hit's current season, viewers watched Goggins’ character get high and begin freeing venomous snakes from their cage. While his on-screen girlfriend, played by Aimee Lou Wood, was bitten in the scene, the actor revealed that exact thing actually happened to him in real life.
“All of them were real snakes, and I don't just have a phobia, it's like a missing link when it comes to snakes,” he shared on the March 6 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I'm really, really terrified, and there's something genetically wrong with me when it comes to snakes.”
“When I picked up the snake for the very first time, I started crying uncontrollably,” he then confessed. “[Creator] Mike White is looking at me like, ‘Oh my God. I don't want to torture this poor guy, but we need to get a close-up.’”
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(L-R) Walton Goggins and Jimmy Kimmel are pictured on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on Wednesday, March 5.After explaining that a snake handler on set told him which not to touch, Goggins said his fear took over.
“They yell ‘action,’ and it's like, ‘Okay, don't open the first one, because they'll kill you,’” he remembered thinking to himself. “The next one — was it green, or was it brown? Which one has a big bite? And so I started pulling the green one, and as I was pulling the snake out, he didn't want to come, and so the snake turns around, and he bit me!”
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In a state of panic, Goggins — already afraid — said he began to scream.
“I wish I could have been cool,” he laughed. “I fancy myself a pretty cool guy. Like, ‘Hey, yeah, I got a snake bite.’ This was my reaction, I swear to God, it was like, ‘Oh my God, I've been bit by a snake! Oh, my God!’”
Once he calmed down, Goggins said they went on with the day, and he didn’t think much of it again after being told it was non-venomous.
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Walton Goggins on season 3 of 'The White Lotus'.“We had another nine hours to go or whatever, and so you just kind of stayed in it, and they put a little Neosporin on it,” he said. “The next day, I get a phone call from the producer — I had finally got it out of my system, it's like, you're okay — I get a phone call from the producer saying, ‘Hey, you know what? We've been thinking about it, and I'm thinking maybe you should go to the hospital.’”
“So I did go to the hospital,” he continued.
“In other words, they got a call from the lawyers at HBO,” host Jimmy Kimmel joked.
“That’s exactly what happened, yeah,” Goggins replied. “And they made me sign, that day, somebody just kind of came up [and said], ‘I'm so sorry you're not feeling too good. Listen, could you just sign this?’”
He added: “I thought, ‘Do you want my autograph or is this like, I've just lost all of my rights?’”
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New episodes of The White Lotus season 3 air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.
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