The forged of The White Lotus has checked into the 2025 Emmy Awards, additional squashing any rumblings of dangerous blood.
Whereas many of the season 3 crew walked the crimson carpet individually through the Sunday, September 14, awards present, Walton Goggins and Parker Posey joined forces to current the award for Excellent Director in a Comedy Collection.
“We spent eight months in Thailand capturing the third season of The White Lotus,” Goggins, 53, mentioned on stage earlier than Posey, 56, proclaimed that the setting was “so stunning” and the delicacies was “divine.”
“It was, wasn’t it?” Goggins added. “I want I had some proper now. Thai Thai meals. … No, I’m not drained. I simply need some Thai meals you may solely get in Thailand.”
Whereas each Goggins and Posey famous the banter-filled dialog was making them “hungry,” they first handed out the Emmy trophy to Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg for The Studio.
Shortly earlier than the ceremony started, Jason Isaacs gushed in regards to the forged dynamics whereas on the crimson carpet.
“I do really feel like a surrogate father,” Isaacs, 62, informed Leisure Weekly. “To be sincere, I fell head over heels in love with Patrick [Schwarznegger] and Sam [Nivola] and Sarah Catherine [Hook] as my pretend youngsters, that when my actual daughters came over, I mentioned, ‘Let’s acquired out and eat with the youngsters,’ they usually went, ‘Dad, we’re your youngsters.’”
Isaacs additional revealed to USA As we speak that he retains in contact with everybody by way of a number of group chats, the place one message chain was for everybody and the opposite was only for the Ratliff household. (Isaacs performed the Ratliff patriarch, the place Schwarznegger, Nivola and Hook had been his three onscreen youngsters.)
Mike White’s hit anthology collection is up for 9 Emmys, receiving nominations for Excellent Drama Collection, Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Collection, Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection and Excellent Drama Visitor Actor. Season 3 stars Posey, Goggins, Isaacs, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, Aimee Lou Wooden, Sam Rockwell and Scott Glenn (who performed resort proprietor Jim Hollinger) all earned particular person performing nominations.
Glenn, 86, already misplaced his class, Excellent Drama Visitor Actor, to The Pitt’s Shawn Hatosy through the Inventive Arts Emmys earlier this month.
After The White Lotus wrapped, rumors began swirling earlier this yr that sure costars had been at odds after Isaacs stirred the pot.
“It was a theatre camp, however to some extent an open jail camp: you couldn’t keep away from each other,” Isaacs informed The Guardian in February, acknowledging sure “tensions and difficulties” behind the scenes. “I don’t know in the event that they spilled from onscreen to offscreen, or if it could have occurred anyway.”
He continued, “There have been alliances that fashioned and broke, romances that fashioned and broke, friendships that fashioned and broke. It’s a protracted time frame for individuals to be away from their household with an open bar and all of the wildness being in Thailand permits.”
Whereas Isaacs didn’t title which costars had been allegedly feuding, followers theorized that Goggins, 53, and Wooden, 31, weren’t on amicable phrases after they appeared to unfollow each other on social media.
“There is no such thing as a feud. I like [and] I really like this lady madly. She is so essential to me,” Goggins informed Selection in June throughout a joint interview with Wooden, who performed his onscreen love curiosity. “That is Goldie Hawn. That is Meg Ryan. She will be able to do something, and she’s going to.”
He added, “You watch what the subsequent 20 years of her expertise might be. I’ll be on an island, I believe Greece. However she’s particular. There is no such thing as a feud. She is love, and I do know that I’m that to her. We care about one another very deeply.”
When requested in regards to the social media hypothesis, Wooden quipped that the 2 actors “don’t give a s*** about Instagram” within the first place.
“Why is everybody obsessing over Instagram? That’s irrelevant,” Wooden informed the outlet. “Why not have conversations in regards to the story and [our characters] Rick and Chelsea and luxuriate in it?”