In the finale of The White Lotus Season 3, Rick Hatchett confronts his father's killer, Jim Hollinger, leading to a tragic chain of events where Rick is mortally wounded. Walton Goggins, who plays Rick, reflects on how the storyline, culminating with Rick's death, was both surprising and inevitable, shaped by his character's obsession with revenge and unresolved grief. Goggins highlights how Rick's identity was inextricably linked to this vendetta, suggesting that true healing requires confronting one's pain directly. Ultimately, the finale conveys deeper themes of fate and the mourning process, as Rick's moment of peace comes too late.
On the morning after the finale, Goggins, a celebrated character actor currently also starring in The Righteous Gemstones and Fallout, discussed fate, love and why the story would have turned out differently if he and Rick could have somehow had a few beers together.
He has allowed this event to become his life story. Who is he without this villain in his life? Because without it, he would have to take responsibility for the decisions that he's made and for not moving past it.
I do believe that... after I read them and absorbed them, I realized that there was really no other conclusion. It couldn't have ended any other way.
What he really needed was to have this person witness his pain. That surprised Rick as much as anyone else.
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