Walton Goggins Reveals He Was Bitten by a Snake onWhite LotusSet During That Scene and Had to Go to the Hospital

Mar. 15, 2025

Walton Goggins on season 3 of ‘The White Lotus’.Photo:Fabio Lovino/HBO

Fabio Lovino/HBO

Walton Gogginsfaced one of his biggest fears while filmingThe White Lotusin Thailand.

“All of them were real snakes, and I don’t just have a phobia, it’s like a missing link when it comes to snakes,” he shared on the March 5 episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live. “I’m really, really terrified, and there’s something genetically wrong with me when it comes to snakes.”

“When I picked up the snake for the very first time, I started crying uncontrollably,” he then confessed. “[Creator]Mike Whiteis looking at me like, ‘Oh my God. I don’t want to torture this poor guy, but we need to get a close-up.’”

(L-R) Walton Goggins and Jimmy Kimmel are pictured on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on Wednesday, March 5.Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty

Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty

After explaining that a snake handler on set told him which not to touch, Goggins said his fear took over.

“They yell ‘action,’ and it’s like, ‘Okay, don’t open the first one, because they’ll kill you,’” he remembered thinking to himself. “The next one — was it green, or was it brown? Which one has a big bite? And so I started pulling the green one, and as I was pulling the snake out, he didn’t want to come, and so the snake turns around, and he bit me!”

In a state of panic, Goggins — already afraid — said he began to scream.

Once he calmed down, Goggins said they went on with the day, and he didn’t think much of it again after being told it was non-venomous.

Walton Goggins on season 3 of ‘The White Lotus’.MAX

MAX

“We had another nine hours to go or whatever, and so you just kind of stayed in it, and they put a little Neosporin on it,” he said. “The next day, I get a phone call from the producer — I had finally got it out of my system, it’s like, you’re okay — I get a phone call from the producer saying, ‘Hey, you know what? We’ve been thinking about it, and I’m thinking maybe you should go to the hospital.’”

“So I did go to the hospital,” he continued.

“In other words, they got a call from the lawyers at HBO,” hostJimmy Kimmeljoked.

“That’s exactly what happened, yeah,” Goggins replied. “And they made me sign, that day, somebody just kind of came up [and said], ‘I’m so sorry you’re not feeling too good. Listen, could you just sign this?’”

He added: “I thought, ‘Do you want my autograph or is this like, I’ve just lost all of my rights?’”

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New episodes ofThe White Lotusseason 3 air Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.

source: people.com