Aimee Lou Wooden shares ‘weirdest’ “White Lotus” fan principle: Folks thought a monkey ‘did the shootout’

Whereas Aimee Lou Wooden felt panicked about unintentionally leaking The White Lotus season 3 secrets and techniques prematurely, there's one fan principle that she and her costars by no means took significantly. However the actor tells Leisure Weekly that the rumor nonetheless took on a lifetime of its personal.

When Emmy contender Wooden joined Tramell Tillman (Severance), Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid's Tale), Marisa Abela (Industry), Antony Starr (The Boys), and Sharon Horgan (Unhealthy Sisters) for EW's Awardist drama actors roundtable, she shared the "weirdest" fan principle about who was liable for the season 3 deaths.

"The weirdest one for us was that individuals thought {that a} monkey obtained ahold of the gun and did the shootout," Wooden says within the video above. "As a result of they had been like, 'Effectively, why would they hold slicing to the monkeys within the timber?' Folks had been actually [like], 'Oh, in fact. [Creator] Mike [White]'s a genius.' Truthfully!"

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As the remainder of the actors snort, Wooden reveals one among her costars tried to squash that principle as a result of it was so ridiculous.

"I feel Michelle Monaghan simply couldn't be bothered with that rumor," Wooden says. "So she was like, 'That’s completely not what occurred. That's simply not [it].'"

The White Lotus season 3 adopted a brand new solid of characters at a Thailand resort. Wooden starred as hopeless romantic Chelsea, who was on trip along with her older, misanthropic boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins). The couple died within the finale when Rick couldn't let his revenge plans go, resulting in a tragic ending for them each.

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"We had a pretend ending on the decision sheet," Wooden reveals. "If we left our name sheet someplace, and somebody then leaked the ending, so we didn't have the true ending. There was a distinct individual's loss of life."

Whereas Wooden wouldn't reveal who was the alternate ending loss of life, she did admit she fell for the trick. "After which I began to suppose, 'However what if Mike is definitely filming each?'" she says. "And there was just a little a part of me after I was watching the final episode that was like, 'What if that was the true ending?'"

Watch the total dialog with Wooden and different Emmys contenders in EW's Awardist drama actors roundtable above.