Season three of 'The White Lotus' ended with an explosive finale on Sunday night. Now, the actors whose characters died are reacting to their fatal endings. WARNING! If you haven't watched the finale yet, major spoilers ahead!
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00:00Season 3 of The White Lotus ended with an explosive finale on Sunday night.
00:04Now the actors whose characters died are reacting to their fatal endings.
00:08Warning, if you haven't watched the finale yet, major spoilers ahead.
00:14On Sunday night, 10 members of the show's cast gathered at the Four Seasons Westlake
00:18Village Hotel to watch the episode together for the first time, and emotionally witnessed
00:23the deaths of Amy Lou Wood's Chelsea, Walton Goggins' Rick, and Scott Glenn's Jim.
00:28Wood said of filming her character's death scene,
00:30"'For about two weeks before we shot it, I felt super weird.
00:34It was like this odd, ominous thing that was just hanging over us.
00:37And then it was like the hottest day ever, and Walton had to, like, carry me so many
00:41times and it was so hot."
00:43She went on to say,
00:44"'Obviously, being the one that dies, this whole time I've been so sad.
00:48Like Mike White kills Hope, because Chelsea is Hope and he kills her.
00:52And it's like, yeah, but then what I saw just then was like there's so much love in it,
00:56and that's why it's so much more painful because you're having to hold it all at the
00:59same time.
01:00But that's life, isn't it?
01:01It's love and pain all the time.'"
01:03During the Hollywood Reporter's cover shoot with the White Lotus cast, Wood told us this
01:07about her character's ending.
01:09"'I still can't believe my character, in a way, got her happy ending.
01:17In a really f----- up way.'"
01:19While Goggins wasn't at the finale event, he did share an emotional post about Rick
01:23and Chelsea's relationship on Instagram.
01:26He said, in part,
01:27"'With the heaviest of hearts, to me, ours was a love story.
01:30It was only ever a love story, hindered by unresolved childhood trauma.'"
01:34He went on to say,
01:35"'In the depths of our despair, there's always beauty around us.
01:38If we can sit with our pain, just sit with it, not react, not be defined by it, it's
01:43there.
01:44The love the world is constantly giving in any given moment is there.'"
01:47Creator Mike White opened up about the show's ending in both an after-episode feature and
01:51on the show's official podcast.
01:53"'It's a classic theme of Greek tragedy, of somebody killing the thing that they love
01:57and trying to get some revenge.'"
01:59According to White, there is also a hint to quote a life beyond, and that love transcends
02:04this life.
02:05Even as they're wheeled out to the plane together in their symmetrical coffins, their love transcends
02:09this in some bittersweet way.
02:11For more on the White Lotus season 3 finale, go to THR.com.
02:15This is The Hollywood Reporter News.