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‘White Lotus’ Actor Wanted to ‘Take a Bullet’ for Co-Star

“You can’t save Chelsea,” Aimee Lou Wood said. Spoiler Alert!

Actor Aimee Lou Wood revealed that fans weren’t the only ones who wanted things to go a different way for her character at the end of The White Lotus Season 3. Speaking to Bustle for a recent interview, Wood agreed that the finale was a “referendum on ‘I can fix him,‘” energy, as Chelsea insists on intertwining her fate with her partner Rick. But it’s not just Chelsea who thinks she can “save” or “fix” someone she can’t in the series, she pointed out. “Patrick [Schwarzenegger] was devastated that Saxon didn’t take a bullet for Chelsea,” Wood revealed. “He was like, ‘I want Saxon to die for Chelsea.’ And I’m saying, ‘But you can’t save Chelsea!’ Saxon can’t save Chelsea in the way that Chelsea can’t save Rick.” Wood also defended critics of Rick, who some feel was solely to blame for Chelsea’s death. “Do you think Rick was going ‘Chelsea, please come on my revenge quest?‘” Wood told the site. “No, he was probably saying ‘Go home.’ Look at [when] she sees Rick kill Jim, she doesn’t run away. She walks towards it.”