Walton Goggins reveals he was bitten by snake on ‘White Lotus’ set

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The White Lotus.Goggins – who is currently appearing on both The White Lotus season three and The Righteous Gemstones season four concurrently on HBO – recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

to promote both shows.While speaking to Jimmy Kimmel about his experience filming The White Lotus, Goggins revealed that he was bitten by a snake while filming the show’s third episode.

In the third episode – minor spoilers here – Goggins’ character gets high and starts freeing snakes.To set the scene, Goggins reveals to Kimmel that he’s “terrified” of snakes: “I don’t just have a phobia, it’s like a missing link when it comes to snakes… there’s something, like, genetically wrong with me when it comes to snakes.”Right before shooting the scene, the set’s snake handlers pointed out to Goggins which snakes were poisonous and not to touch them.

Due to his fear of snakes, Goggins began pulling a non-venomous snake out of its casing when things took a turn for the worse: “As I was pulling the snake out, he didn’t want to come, right?