Walton Goggins spent over six months preparing for the emotional climax of The White Lotus season 3 episode 7, a moment he described as finally lifting "10,000 pounds off of my shoulder.

For Walton Goggins, the wait was considerably longer. The apparent culmination of his antihero's journey wasn't filmed until almost the very end of the Thailand shoot, and the relief on his face at the end of the episode is as much his own as it is Rick's.

Walton Goggins' Rick finally confronts Jim about his father's death in The White Lotus season 3, episode 7, which has a surprising conclusion.