Walton Goggins’ wife, Nadia Conners, addressed speculation about his relationship to White Lotus costar Aimee Lou Wood.
“It’s odd to see [the speculation], but it’s an indication of how much people were invested in the fictional characters,” Conners, 55, said in an interview with Hello! Magazine published on Friday, May 16. “I take it as a sign that he’s become quite popular.”
Goggins, 53, and Wood, 31, played doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea in the third season of the HBO Emmy-winning anthology series. The costars took part in promotion of the show together, but fans noticed they soon stopped following one another on social media.
Goggins reacted to Saturday Night Live’s April parody of The White Lotus via Instagram by calling the sketch “amazzzingggg” whereas Wood found the spoof “mean and unfunny” due to SNL cast member Sarah Sherman depicting her with fake teeth to resemble her gap. (Sherman later offered a mea culpa by sending Wood flowers and Wood insisted she never personally blamed the comedian.)
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Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood became close friends before playing love interests on The White Lotus. The costars met on the season 3 set, after securing the roles of Rick and Chelsea, respectively. Despite the age gap between their characters, Goggins and Wood spoke fondly about the fictional couple’s bond. “I think that’s such […]
Speculation about the pair reached a fever pitch earlier this month when Goggins walked out of an interview with the London Times due to repeated questions about his relationship with Wood. Goggins initially told the reporter he wasn’t “going to have that conversation” before ending the interview when Wood was brought up again.
“There’s no conversation to be had about that. [It’s like] sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum,” he insisted.
However, the two White Lotus stars started following each other again on Instagram shortly after. Wood also offered her support for Goggins hosting SNL on May 10 while attending the Met Gala in New York City on May 5.
“[Working with Walton] was the best thing ever,” Wood added. “He’s going to be incredible doing SNL. It’s the perfect thing for him to do. It’s going to be hilarious. I’m so excited to see it.”
Fans hoping to see Wood reunite with Goggins on Saturday Night Live were likely disappointed since she didn’t appear — though White Lotus cast member Sam Rockwell did cameo alongside Goggins on the NBC sketch show last weekend.
As for Goggins’ marriage, he was first wed to Leanne Kaun in 2001 but she tragically died in 2004. He married Conners in 2011 and they share a son, Augustus, born 2011.
In her new interview with Hello!, Conners spoke about writing and directing The Uninvited, a comedy-drama about a dinner party gone horribly wrong. Goggins starred in the movie as a drug-addicted Hollywood talent agent, but Conners insisted her marriage did not inspire the film.
“Walton was reading through the script with me at home and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ What he brings to the character, it was sharp, almost killer energy,” she said. “I wrote it about a marriage, but not my marriage, which concerned him – he was like: ‘But I’m not this guy.’ It was really important for him to say that he was not this guy. I said: ‘I know, but you’re a great actor, so you can pretend.’”
The Uninvited is now playing in theaters.
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