The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has revealed the scariest scenes she had to shoot, saying it wasn't the intimate scenes.
Speaking to The Sun, Wood, who stars as Chelsea in season 3 of the hit HBO drama, said that filming poolside in a bikini left her feeling more nervous than filming sex scenes.
"I was more worried about just being around the pool because I feel like that's when you're thinking more about how you look," Wood recalled.
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"Whereas . . . in an intimate scene, it’s about the intimacy. But then you just, kind of, have to forget that. You just have to let it go. But that [the bikini scenes] was way scarier to me, actually."
Meanwhile, Walton Goggins, who stars as Wood's on-screen boyfriend Rick Hatchett, recently revealed that he was forced to face one of his own fears on set.
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Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Goggins revealed that he is "really terrified of snakes" and the first time he had to handle one left him sobbing.
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"I had the snake handler right off camera because when I picked up the snake for the very first time, I started crying. Like uncontrollably," he said
In the show, Rick and Chelsea leave the White Lotus resort in Thailand to visit the local town where they attend a snake show. Rick, who is high, attempts to free the snakes before one bites Chelsea.
According to Goggins, something similar happened to him when he was bitten by a snake on set after picking it up.
"I started to pull the green one and as I was pulling the snake out he didn't want to come. So the snake turns around and he bit me. I haven't told that story to anybody," he said.
The White Lotus airs on Sky Atlantic and streams on Sky Go and NOW in the UK, with new season 3 episodes every Monday. The show airs on HBO and streams on Max in the US.
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