The White Lotus: Walton Goggins And Aimee Lou Wood Reveal A Rick And Chelsea Sex Scene Was Cut From The Finale ('It Was So Powerful')

Before The White Lotus' Rick and Chelsea faced a tragic fate in the Season 3 finale, they had one last intimate moment together... but we never got to see it.

In a new interview with our sister site Variety, Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood (who played lovers Rick and Chelsea on the HBO hit) reveal that a sex scene between Rick and Chelsea they shot for the finale ended up on the cutting room floor. As they describe it, after Rick and Chelsea reunited at the resort following his wild Bangkok excursion, they went back to their room to discuss their relationship — and had an intimate love scene as well.

"We designed the whole journey," Wood remembers, "even down to the fact that Chelsea gets on Rick in the first [sex] scene. Then in the last episode, it was Rick picking Chelsea up. It was so, so delicate."

Goggins adds that the cut scene showed viewers "two people who were free. It was this very long, suspended moment of these two people looking at each other. It was so powerful." The actor even grabs the Variety reporter's recorder and yells to White Lotus creator Mike White: "F–k you, Mike! We want a director's cut!"

The White Lotus finale did feature another sex scene that was cut for time, with Piper and Belinda's son Zion hooking up, White previously revealed: "She decides to lose her virginity in the script in the last episode. And she actually has sex with Zion." But White ultimately decided against including it: "It had a little bit of a rom-com vibe in the middle of trying to kill the family with the pong pong fruits. It just felt like I was trying to do too much narratively."

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