This submit comprises spoilers for “The White Lotus” season 3.
Can any person please give Walton Goggin an award for performing nearly solely along with his eyes? He did it on final week’s episode of “The White Lotus,” when his depressed maybe-hitman Rick sat by way of a stunningly surprising monologue from an outdated buddy performed by Sam Rockwell. This week, he is again at it once more because the season enters its endgame — which little question can have one thing to do with the person often called Jim Hollinger. Hollinger makes his entrance in an out-of-focus shot on the finish of episode 5, and the hour ends with Goggins’ nearly imperceptibly shaken look.
The large twist right here will be readily inferred, although we’ll have to attend till subsequent week for the present to verify or deny it. Rick beforehand stated that he knew resort proprietor Sritala’s (Patravadi Mejudhon) husband killed his dad when he was on what gave the impression to be a humanitarian journey to Thailand, however the man we hear converse on the finish of episode 5 has a fairly distinct American accent that matches Goggins’ personal. That might clarify the “oh s**t” look on Rick’s face when he sees the person he is there to go to underneath false pretenses; perhaps this is not the man who killed his father — perhaps this is his father.
Whereas we theorize, it is price unpacking the Jim Hollinger casting, as a result of the character will doubtless play into the season’s last episodes in an enormous method. Based mostly on his voice and blurry body alone, I used to be moderately assured that he’d be revealed as Billy Bob Thornton (this season does have main “Fargo” vibes, in spite of everything), however the episode’s finish credit proved me flawed.
Here is the place you’ve got seen Scott Glenn earlier than
The voice truly belonged to none aside from character actor Scott Glenn, making a (hopefully) triumphant return to the community that gave him certainly one of his best roles. Glenn performed cussed, erratic household patriarch Kevin Garvey Sr. on HBO’s magnificent existential drama “The Leftovers” from 2014 to 2017. His different current TV roles embody a heartbreaking half on the short-lived Stephen King-verse present “Citadel Rock,” a activate the brand new Apple TV+ darkish comedy “Unhealthy Monkey,” and the a part of Stick, a mentor determine to Matt Murdock on the Netflix model of Marvel’s “Daredevil.”
Go additional again, and yow will discover Glenn in a number of the greatest motion pictures of the twentieth century, from “Apocalypse Now” to “Nashville.” He performed himself in Robert Altman’s “The Participant,” confirmed up within the motion blockbuster “The Bourne Ultimatum,” and was a priest in “The Virgin Suicides” and a cop turned drug vendor within the Denzel Washington favourite “Coaching Day.” He additionally performed a number of characters within the deeply polarizing Zack Snyder mission “Sucker Punch.” Glenn usually performs authority figures, although they nearly all the time have an edge to them. In “Apocalypse Now,” he was the captain who triggered Willard’s mission when he defected to Colonel Kurtz’s military. He additionally performed FBI boss Jack Crawford in 1991’s Oscar-winner “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Glenn began out engaged on tv within the Sixties (his first position was on “The Patty Duke Present”), however for a number of many years starting within the ’70s, he did not act on the small display screen in any respect. In actual fact, earlier than “The Leftovers,” his solely seen TV collection position since 1975 was in a two-part episode of “Monk” again in 2008. We’re fortunate to have him again; his activates “Citadel Rock” and “The Leftovers” have been gorgeous, and he’ll little question blow the roof of the place in “The White Lotus” as properly. Frankly, Glenn is without doubt one of the greatest actors of his era who hasn’t gotten the Emmy he deserves but. “Each inch of his face is memorable and photographable,” director Mimi Leder informed IndieWire in 2017. “The creases on his cheeks, and his eyes — all the things he does could be very actual and really visceral. Working with him is without doubt one of the nice experiences.”
In different phrases, he’ll be an unbelievable scene associate for Goggins when the pair lastly come head to head on “The White Lotus.” New episodes of the present premiere Sundays at 9pm ET on HBO.
