Aimee Lou Wood doesn’t want you to think Chelsea is “a victim” in ‘The White Lotus’

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Aimee Lou Wood does not want you to think of her character Chelsea in The White Lotus as a “victim”.

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In the dramatic finale of the eighth and final episode of season three, which aired on HBO on Sunday (April 6), Chelsea was killed when her boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins) opened fire on his nemesis Jim (Scott Glenn). The ensuing shootout saw Chelsea fatally wounded by a stray bullet, with Rick also being shot dead.

After the tragic events aired, Wood spoke to The Hollywood Reporter where she opened up about her character’s demise, stressing that she sees Chelsea as a strong woman.

“People love Chelsea and now they’re angry that she was put in harm’s way by Rick,” she said. “But she was not put in harm’s way by Rick, she was put in harm’s way by herself. So, she’s not a victim, she’s like many of the tragic heroines that I adore.”

“I was actually listening to Amy Winehouse the whole time I was there. And so we love these incredible women, and I’m not denying that they were not treated well because they did have grumpy men that were shit to them, right?”

“But they’re also strong, tenacious, determined women. Even if Rick had bundled Chelsea into a car and sent her to the furthest away place that he could find, she would find her way back. She’d run back. And that is a very addict quality, and Chelsea is an addict — she’s a love addict and she didn’t defeat her addiction.”

Referring to a fateful conversation between Chelsea and Rick in the final episode, she added: “It’s like she’s made Rick her higher power, she’s made the relationship her higher power, and she sees God in that moment where he says, ‘Yes, that’s the plan’. And in that moment, they’ve gone from addictive relationship to connected relationship and that’s what we’ve wanted all along. We’ve wanted it to be not a power dynamic, but a connected horizontal relationship, but of course, in classic Rick and Chelsea fashion, it can only last for one night.”

Show creator Mike White has revealed this week that there was a scene cut from the finale where the character of Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) loses her virginity with Zion (Nicholas Duvernay).

Fans of the show were shocked by the reveal of the body teased in the first episode, as well as the shooter. White has also revealed he wants to do an all-stars season of the show.

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