'White Lotus' Season 3 Star Discloses the Word Their Character Said Upon Dying That Was Cut!
Spoilers ahead if you have not seen the final episode of The White Lotus season three.
One of the victims this season was Jim Hollinger, played by Scott Glenn, who ended up being Rick’s dad.
Rick (Walton Goggins) shot him at the hotel after they had two previous run-ins, not knowing he was his real father.
Now, Scott is revealing that they filmed one take of the shooting scene where Jim muttered one final word before dying.
Keep reading to find out more…
Scott told THR of the shooting scene, “We shot it different ways. There’s part one version that I died slinking into his arms saying one last word, that they left out. The way it is now, I’m just lying back there. So conceivably, Thailand’s a great medical country. Maybe I could go through a bunch of operations and survive. Who knows! But it was great fun being part of Mike White’s traveling circus.”
He was then asked what the word was, to which he said, “One word: ‘Buakaw,’ which means, in Thai, ‘White Lotus.’ Buakaw Banchamek is arguably the greatest knockout artist in the sport of Muay Thai, which is the Thai kickboxing, and he’s just coming to the end of his career. He’s old for that sport, maybe 40 or 45. He gave himself this name 15 years ago, way before there was ever such a thing as a White Lotus TV show: ‘Buakaw,’ the White Lotus. When I got to Thailand, one of the things I did in preparation for the part was to find something that would give me a rhythm of the country. So I studied two types of martial arts, one of which was Muay Baram, which is Muay Thai but without the gloves and with no rules. I started doing it to get a rhythm of the character. Brando taught me years ago that every country has its rhythm, and if you want to get in character, find that rhythm. So when I started getting into it, people would ask me, ‘Do you know who The White Lotus is?’ And as a big sports fan, of course I did, but I hadn’t connected at all that I was also doing a show called The White Lotus.”
If you don’t know, Mike White, the show’s creator, revealed which 2 characters had a sex scene in the finale that was cut out for time and plot.
You can also find out how much money the cast was paid to film the show.