Walton Goggins on The White Lotus, Episode 3.03: “The Meaning of Dreams”
Photo credit: Fabio Lovino
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Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett, troubled tourist
Koh Samui, Thailand, Spring 2024
Series: The White Lotus
Episode: “The Meaning of Dreams” (Episode 3.03)
Air Date: March 2, 2025
Director: Mike White
Creator: Mike White
Costume Designer: Alex Bovaird
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
Whether you’ve been a fan of Walton Goggins since his intensity on The Shield and Justified or his comic turns on Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones, it’s great to see the 53-year-old emerging as an unlikely heartthrob thanks to his back-to-back TV performances as the noseless Ghoul on Fallout and the moody Rick Hatchett on this season of The White Lotus.
Following its now-usual format, The White Lotus introduced a generally new set of characters this season, including the morose and mysterious Rick with his charming younger English girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), who arrive at the titular resort franchise’s location in Koh Samui, Thailand. While the Hawaiian and Sicilian resorts emphasized relaxation and luxury, the Thai location is focused more on wellness due to the pioneering vision of its co-owner Sritala Hollinger (Lek Patravadi).
Rick’s oddly intense interest in Sritala and her yet-unseen husband Jim (Scott Glenn) are all we generally know about him, though more details reluctantly emerge through his meditation sessions with Amrita (Shalini Peiris), admitting in the latest episode that he’s “done a lot of bad things… made a lot of mistakes.” Based on his interest in the Hollingers and his own lingering bitterness around his father’s murder (telling Amrita that “maybe I can still get some satisfaction”), theories range that Rick may blame Jim for his father’s death and has been planning to take revenge… or that Jim is actually Rick’s father.
“Scorpio… so secretive,” Chelsea observes when he refuses to elaborate on his uncharacteristically enthusiastic conversation with Sritala. (Coincidentally or not, this aligns with Walton Goggins’ actual November 10th birthday.)
Instead of opening up to her, Rick responds to reliving his trauma by reverting to his old coping mechanisms, dragging Chelsea into town for his increasingly chaotic misadventures involving powerful cannabis and caged cobras. His bunk weed-induced sympathy for the latter leads yet another in his lifelong string of mistakes, this time gravely endangering poor Chelsea’s life for the second time in two days. (And possibly Goggins’ own life!)
Ahead of another new episode of The White Lotus airing tonight, let’s dive into the spring break-ready look that Goggins wore through the first act of last week’s episode.
What’d He Wear?
Costume designer Alex Bovaird returned from the previous two seasons to continue building each character’s defining wardrobes. While the male guests are typically prosperous (and dress accordingly), Rick’s scrappier clothing is more reflective of his attitude than his wealth, though his rotation of brash shirts are louder than his melancholic personality.
Rick’s daily attire in Thailand could be described as variations on the surgeons of M*A*S*H, pairing aloha-style sport shirts with military-informed cargo pants but swapping the combat boots for open-toed sandals more appropriate for the country’s tropical monsoon climate. (For what it’s worth, this is also my regular summer uniform here in my not-so-tropical hometown of Pittsburgh.)
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Rick begins the third episode in his fifth of several tropical sport shirts, this one made from a vintage 1950s-era cloth by New York shirtmaker CEGO. Printed on 100% rayon (like classic aloha shirts), the design consists of several large red-crowned cranes against a burgundy ground and green spiky leaves, as well as an orange sun that falls over most of his non-matching breast pocket. The shirt follows the typical aloha design with its flat camp collar, short sleeves, and plain button-up front—which here features four off-white four-hole buttons.
The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) can be identified by the eponymous patches of bare red skin atop their heads, contrasting with their white-colored bodies and black secondary feathers. Native to wetlands across parts of China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, these large birds are among the rarest cranes in the world and considered a symbol of immortality and longevity, according to National Geographic. Though they’re not typically found in Thailand, the East Asian cranes depicted on Rick’s shirt are more contextually appropriate than the “Mexico”-printed Guess shirt that he wore during his arrival.
“You wanna get fucked up?”
Below the waist, Rick recycles the same fatigue-like cargo pants and black leather sandals he had worn two days earlier for his arrival. The olive-green cotton trousers have slanted side pockets that each close with a forward-facing flap that closes through a single snap. The two set-in back pockets also have flaps that close on a single covered snap. Based on how they bulge out from the sides of his thighs, Rick appears to take advantage of the added storage from the patch-style cargo pockets, which are each double forward-pleated and close with a rectangular flap that have a snap in each corner.
Full through the hips and thighs, these casual-fitting trousers have a straight cut down each leg to the plain-hemmed bottoms.
Rick also continues wearing his usual black leather sandals, an especially brave—or perhaps foolish—choice when freeing the venomous snakes at the Samui Snake Farm. These simple flat sandals have two leather straps over each foot—one wide strap across the instep and a narrower one over the metatarsals, with an additional black leather loop for the big toe.
Production photo of an appropriately melancholy-looking Walton Goggins on location in Koh Samui during the filming of “The Meaning of Dreams”.
Unlike some of his fellow guests who seemingly change their sunglasses each day of the trip, Rick always reverts to the tried-and-true Ray-Ban RB2140 Original Wayfarer with a dark polished tortoise acetate frame and dark green lenses (color code 902/58).
Designed by Raymond Stegeman for Bausch & Lomb in 1952, Wayfarers remain an iconic emblem of both mid-century style and yuppie culture after their 1980s renaissance as worn by Tom Cruise in Risky Business and as the titular eyewear in the video for Corey Hart’s 1984 synth-pop single “Sunglasses at Night”.
Regarding Rick’s array of jewelry, it’s not initially obvious where Walton Goggins’ own affectations end and the character’s begin, as they share a penchant for necklaces and rings. Rick’s gold box-chain necklace has a gold-backed pendant, set with a large gemstone with the golden gradient finish suggestive of tiger’s eye. Dangling next to this on the necklace is a medium-sized black bead, hanging like a kettlebell or a cartoon bomb. The necklace closes with a lobster-claw clasp.
On Rick’s right ring finger, he wears a large darkened silver ring with an overlapping band that swells out to the prong-style setting for a large black square stone.
After wearing a Rolex Datejust on a brown leather strap for the season’s first two episodes, Rick switches to a Q Timex® GMT Quartz in “The Meaning of Dreams”. This $219 watch is a curious choice at a resort for millionaires, but—like the rest of the wardrobe—it stands out among the preppier “rich guy” styles as modeled by the Durham-dwelling Ratliff family, nearly all of whom wear Rolexes. As Goggins himself is a Rolex wearer and Rick had already sported a Datejust on screen, I initially assumed this watch was a “Sprite” bezel Rolex GMT Master II until an Instagram post by @telewatches confirmed what became obvious upon a second viewing: Rick is wearing a Timex!
The black-and-green GMT-style bezel narrow it down to the ref. TW2W57500, a modern reissue of a 1970s-era design. Powered by a quartz analog movement, this retro-styled watch features a stainless steel 38mm case and black rubber 18mm-wide strap. Protected by acrylic crystal, the black dial has luminous non-numeric hour indices and a white-wheeled date window at the 3 o’clock position.
And to answer another style-related question raised during this scene… yes, Chelsea. You absolutely should buy that shirt.
How to Get the Look
Walton Goggins on The White Lotus, Episode 3.03: “The Meaning of Dreams”
Photo credit: Fabio Lovino
Rick Hatchett’s burgundy crane-printed aloha shirt has been an audience favorite so far, paired in his usual style with fatigue-style cargo pants, sandals, and his usual assortment of jewelry and accessories.
- Red-crowned crane-printed burgundy vintage rayon short-sleeved aloha shirt with camp collar, four-button plain front, and non-matching breast pocket
- Olive-green cotton flat-front cargo pants with slanted side pockets (with single-snap flaps), double forward-pleated patch cargo pockets (with double-snap flaps), set-in back pockets (with single-snap flaps), and plain-hemmed bottoms
- Black leather double-strap toe-wrap flat sandals
- Ray-Ban RB2140 Original Wayfarer dark tortoise acetate-framed sunglasses with dark-green lenses
- Gold box-chain necklace with tiger’s eye pendant and black bead
- Silver overlap ring with prong-set black square stone
- Q Timex® GMT Quartz ref. TW2W57500 with stainless steel 38mm case, black-and-green rotating bezel, round black dial (with luminous hour indices and 3:00 date window), and black rubber strap
Vintage crane-printed rayon aloha shirt by Lost Boys, as recently sold on eBay.
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The Quote
How can you be my soulmate? Our signs aren’t even compatible!
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