Jason Isaacs’ PDA Moment With Walton Goggins Sparks More ‘White Lotus’ Buzz

Jason Isaacs isn’t shying away from the swirling solid feud rumors surrounding season 3 of “The White Lotus.” In reality, he’s leaning all the way in which 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” solid’s each transfer. “Hey, all you genius on-line sleuths, see any beef?!!”

He even ended the put up 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 Instances the character “doesn’t replicate our values or who we’re.”

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

In fact, followers are nonetheless laser-focused on the real-life rigidity between Goggins and his on-screen love curiosity, Aimee Lou Wood.

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 Times UK interview printed Could 1. When requested in regards to 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 obtained tense behind the scenes throughout a SiriusXM interview final month.

“Everybody was in just a little stress cooker collectively,” he mentioned. “There’s friendships, there’s romances, there’s arguments, there’s cliques that kind and break and reform.”

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

“No person has the slightest clue what they’re speaking about,” he mentioned. “Individuals assume they’re onto one thing, after which it will get magnified… No person has any clue.”

Plus, in an interview with The Guardian, printed in February 2025, he mentioned, “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 might 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 frame for folks 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 put up, writing, “Thanks Aimee Lou for being my companion… a journey I’ll always remember.”

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

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