Jason Isaacs’ PDA Second With Walton Goggins Sparks Extra ‘White Lotus’ Buzz

Jason Isaacs isn’t shying away from the swirling forged feud rumors surrounding season 3 of “The White Lotus.” Actually, he’s leaning all the best way in.

After operating into co-star Walton Goggins on a flight, Jason Isaacs snapped a sequence of selfies, together with one the place he crops a kiss on Goggins’ brow.

He then posted them to Instagram on Friday, Could 2, with a cheeky caption aimed straight on the drama-hungry followers.

“Guess who was on my aircraft?” Isaacs teased, earlier than throwing shade on the web detectives who’ve been monitoring the “White Lotus” forged’s each transfer. “Hey, all you genius on-line sleuths, see any beef?!!”

He even ended the publish with “#RicksAlive!!!,” a nod to Goggins’ character, Rick Hatchett, who met a grisly finish within the present’s season 3 finale.

However the playful jabs didn’t cease there.

Isaacs doubled down on his trolling by tagging Duke College’s official Instagram account, a reference to a different swirl of controversy from the present.

In a single intense season 3 scene, Isaacs’ character, finance bro Tim Ratliff, dons a Duke T-shirt whereas considering suicide.

The second went viral, and never in a great way.

A college official later slammed the present, telling The New York Occasions the character “doesn’t mirror our values or who we’re.”

Isaacs’ response? He confirmed as much as the “White Lotus” finale occasion carrying the varsity’s Blue Satan mascot tee.

After all, followers are nonetheless laser-focused on the real-life rigidity between Goggins and his on-screen love curiosity, Aimee Lou Wooden.

The pair famously unfollowed one another on Instagram after filming wrapped, and Goggins didn’t do a lot to squash the drama in a brand new Occasions UK interview printed Could 1. When requested concerning the falling out, Goggins replied, “I’m not gonna have that dialog,” as his publicists swiftly shut down additional questions.

Isaacs, in the meantime, acknowledged issues received tense behind the scenes throughout a SiriusXM interview final month.

“Everybody was in a bit of strain cooker collectively,” he stated. “There’s friendships, there’s romances, there’s arguments, there’s cliques that type and break and reform.”

As for the web sleuths dissecting each unfollow and delicate jab, Isaacs thinks they’re off the mark.

“No one has the slightest clue what they’re speaking about,” he stated. “Folks suppose they’re onto one thing, after which it will get magnified… No one has any clue.”

Plus, in an interview with The Guardian, printed in February 2025, he stated, “You couldn’t keep away from one different. There are tensions and difficulties, I don’t know in the event that they spilled from on display to off-screen, or if it will have occurred anyway.”

He added, “There have been alliances that shaped and broke, romances that shaped and broke, friendships that shaped and broke. It’s a protracted time period for individuals to be away from their household with an open bar and all of the wildness being in Thailand permits.”

Additional complicated followers, final month, Goggins gave a heartfelt shoutout to Wooden in an Instagram publish, writing, “Thanks Aimee Lou for being my associate… a journey I’ll always remember.”

Wooden adopted with a photograph of the 2 on April 8, captioning it “An ideal storm.”

Including gas to the hypothesis was when Goggins beforehand had a slideshow of images with Wooden pinned to his Highlights… which is now mysteriously gone.