Walton Goggins appeared on “CBS Morning” on Monday to debate the explosive season finale of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” which has left followers reeling from its sudden twists and revelations.

The actor, who portrayed Rick, a person trying to find solutions about his father’s mysterious previous at a luxurious resort in Thailand, opened up concerning the stunning finale that nobody noticed coming.

“I lastly have folks to speak to,” Goggins joked through the interview, referring to having to maintain the finale’s secrets and techniques for thus lengthy.

Regardless of quite a few fan theories circulating on-line, significantly on TikTok, Goggins revealed that nobody appropriately predicted the finale’s final result. “All of us had the great fortune of listening to folks inform us their model of the story out on the road,” he stated. “A few of them received very shut, however nobody guessed it.”

Spoiler Warning

The interview included a spoiler warning earlier than discussing the most important revelation that Rick’s quest to search out the person he believed killed his father ended with him killing Jim (performed by Scott Glenn) – solely to find that Jim was really his father.

“I sympathize so significantly with Rick’s ache, as a result of his complete life story was outlined by this occasion,” Goggins defined. He famous that within the second of revelation, creator Mike White’s genius confirmed by as “Rick solely has a few seconds to register it earlier than he’s being fired at.”

Goggins additionally mentioned a very memorable scene with fellow actor Sam Rockwell, who delivered an intense monologue in episode 5. He revealed that since they’re good associates off-screen, they approached the scene with minimal preparation.

“Sam’s a very good good friend of mine… We didn’t rehearse it. We didn’t actually even speak about it very a lot in any respect,” Goggins stated. “We simply form of sat reverse this desk, and he simply form of went into it the best way that he went into it, and it occurred so organically.”

Past the stunning paternal revelation, Goggins touched on Rick’s relationship with Chelsea, describing it as “the primary love story in ‘The White Lotus.’”

“It was at all times a love story,” Goggins stated, explaining how their relationship firstly of the season had advanced considerably from after they first met three years prior.