Warning: The remainder of this text incorporates main spoilers for The White Lotus season three finale
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wooden has defined why the loss of life of her character within the collection finale was inevitable.
Within the collection finale that aired on 6 April, Wooden’s character Chelsea catches a stray bullet throughout a shootout and dies within the arms of her accomplice, Rick, performed by Walton Goggins. He then carries her throughout a bridge earlier than he’s shot within the again and falls leaving the pair submerged in water, aspect by aspect.
In a brand new interview with GQ Hype, Wooden stated that her character was the “sacrificial lamb” who pays the value for worshipping romantic love.
Wooden continued: “[Chelsea’s] essentially the most hopeful character on the present and that’s why she has to die, however clearly on a human degree it’s actually fricking unhappy.”
Wooden added that the present’s creator Mike White was questioning whether or not he had made the correct option to kill off the character.
“He doubted it quite a bit,” Wooden stated. “He got here as much as me a number of instances and stated, ‘Are individuals going to hate me an excessive amount of? I don’t know if that is too far.’”
Talking concerning the last scene wherein Chelsea and Rick float in water, Wooden defined: “We needed to fall down collectively and also you see us rising up, all of that took a very long time,” she says. “I stored flipping and we’d have to chop and begin once more. We had been in there the entire day. I needed to maintain my breath for a bloody very long time.”
Followers have been sharing their disappointment with the ending, with one fan writing on X/Twitter: “In fact, they kill off the one likeable character within the present and he or she was the one.”
One other individual added: “So freaking pointless to kill Chelsea! She turned certainly one of my favorite characters together with Laurie & Belinda! Good season however the finale was entertaining however irritating.”
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An outraged viewer wrote: “CHELSEA MY SWEET ANGEL! ! ! ! F*** YOU MIKE WHITE! ! ! ! ! HOW DARE YOU? ! !”
Talking about her casting within the collection, Wooden added that White “fought” for her to have a job within the collection, however she felt as if HBO didn’t need her.
“Somebody instructed me how a lot Mike had fought for me. They stated ‘it needed to be you, it doesn’t matter what HBO stated.’”
“It was actually from the nicest place, however my little head goes: ‘HBO didn’t need me. And I do know why HBO didn’t need me, it’s as a result of I am ugly. Mike needed to say ‘Please let me have the ugly lady!’” she stated. “That was the factor that was in my head.”
The third season aired to blended evaluations, with The Unbiased’s Adam White giving the episode three stars, calling it a “violent finish to a foul season”.
“It stays unclear whether or not the present’s sole author and director Mike White meant for this season to be fairly so narratively repetitive, along with his gamers biking by the identical conversations for episodes on finish. Maybe that was the (agonising) level?”
White added: “Nobody of their proper thoughts needs to see the fantastic Aimee Lou Wooden, along with her large, hopeful eyes and toothy radiance, bleeding to loss of life with a bullet gap in her chest”.
