Walton Goggins Shares Story of Being Bitten by a Snake While Shooting THE WHITE LOTUS Season 3
Walton Goggins (The Shield, Sons of Anarchy) appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week to promote both The Righteous Gemstones and The White Lotus. Both shows are currently airing on HBO, and filming one of the shows gave him quite a close call.
Goggins prefaced telling the story by saying that he is deathly afraid of snakes, and he revealed that during the filming of a recent White Lotus episode, titled “The Meaning of Dreams,” he was bit during a scene in which his character Rick Hatchett was releasing snakes from a snake farm.
In the scene, one bit Rick’s girlfriend Chelsea (played by Aimee Lou Wood). In real life, it was Goggins who was bit when a real-life snake he was trying to coax from a cage during the scene turned around and bit him.
“I haven’t told that story, to anybody,” he told Kimmel. “I wish I coulda been cool — you know, like I fancy myself a pretty cool guy, like, ‘Hey yeah, I got a snake bite.’ This was my reaction, I swear to God: ‘OH MY GOD I’VE BEEN BIT BY A SNAKE! OH MY GOD!'”
Goggins said he finished the day on set and was ready to move on, but the next day a producer called and suggested he go to the hospital, where Goggins got a shot. “So in other words, [the producers] got a call from the lawyers at HBO,” Kimmel joked. Goggins did say he had to sign something, in fact.
You can see Goggins tell the story in the video below, which starts at the seven-minute mark.
via: Deadline