The White Lotus’ Walton Goggins had a hilarious reunion with costar Sam Rockwell as he made his Saturday Night Live internet hosting debut.
The White Lotus duo appeared in a pre-taped sketch throughout SNL’s penultimate season 50 episode on Saturday, Could 10, alongside solid member Jane Wickline. The musical quantity revolved round each Rockwell, 56, and Goggins, 53, revealing they had been “absolutely grown-ass males” with “tiny child ft.”
Their reunion on SNL was a pointy departure from Rockwell and Goggins’ escapades in The White Lotus, the place their enigmatic characters — Rick and Frank — went on a wild, drug-fueled rampage by Bangkok seeking revenge.
Elsewhere in Goggins’s SNL internet hosting debut, the actor addressed the downsides of changing into “a intercourse image at 53 years previous” due to his function in The White Lotus. He made gentle of the memes and social media commentary about how he was sizzling regardless of his “receding hairline” and looking out “greasy.”
“I’ve had the identical hairline since I used to be 7. It’s not receding, it’s holding its floor,” he insisted.
Goggins additionally introduced his mother Janet Lengthy onto the SNL stage for a fast twirl round residence base in honor of Mom’s Day on Sunday, Could 11.
Sadly, followers hoping for Aimee Lou Wooden to reunite with Goggins on SNL had been upset as she didn’t seem. White Lotus followers speculated that Goggins could also be on the outs with costar and onscreen love curiosity Wooden earlier this 12 months after they stopped following one another on social media.
Goggins was repeatedly requested a couple of potential rift with Wooden throughout an interview with The London Occasions author Ed Potton earlier in Could. The actor initially insisted he was “not gonna have that dialog,” earlier than eventually ending the interview abruptly when the journalist introduced up the alleged rift as soon as once more.
“There isn’t any dialog available about that. [It’s like] sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum,” Goggins insisted.
Nevertheless, Goggins and Wooden refollowed each other in early Could — with the actress telling Leisure Tonight on the Met Gala on Monday, Could 5, that she “loved working with Walton.”
“[Working with Walton] was one of the best factor ever,” Wooden, 31, added. “He’s going to be unbelievable doing SNL. It’s the right factor for him to do. It’s going to be hilarious. I’m so excited to see it.”
It seems that Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wooden could be teaming up once more after filming The White Lotus season 3. CNN journalist Elizabeth Wagmeister claimed on the Thursday, April 17, episode of “The Viall Recordsdata” podcast that she heard rumblings that Goggins, 53, and Wooden, 31, may need one other joint mission within the works. […]
Nevertheless, Wooden dominated out the opportunity of becoming a member of Goggins for an SNL cameo after her personal latest complaints in regards to the NBC sketch present.
The previous Intercourse Schooling star took difficulty with Saturday Night time Stay’s parody of The White Lotus on April 12, through which SNL solid member Sarah Sherman depicted Wooden’s character Chelsea with pretend enamel to resemble her hole.
“I did discover the SNL factor imply and unfunny,” Wooden, 31, wrote through her Instagram Tales the next day. “Such a disgrace ‘cuz I had such a good time watching it a pair weeks in the past. Sure, take the piss for positive — that’s what the present is about — however there should be a cleverer, extra nuanced, much less low cost means?”
Wooden later shared that she’d received “apologies” from SNL over the sketch and acquired a flower bouquet from Sherman as a mea culpa as effectively. SNL star Bowen Yang subsequently advised Further that Wooden’s response to the parody was “completely valid.”
White Lotus’ Aimee Lou Wooden and Walton Goggins each attended the 2025 Met Gala, however she walked the purple carpet with one other costar. Wooden, 31, was joined by Patrick Schwarzenegger on the annual fundraiser for New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Museum on Monday, Could 5. Goggins, 53, additionally attended the Met Gala however walked the purple […]
“You want these reminders now and again that parody can go too far generally, and that we as comedians can take account for that as an alternative of banging our foot and saying that, like, we needs to be allowed to say no matter we would like as a result of that’s simply the tradition,” Yang, 34, stated.
Saturday Night time Stay’s season 50 finale airs Saturday, Could 17 on NBC at 11:30p.m. ET with visitor host Scarlett Johansson and musical visitor Unhealthy Bunny.
