After Jason Isaacs Likened The “White Lotus” Set To “An Open Prison Camp,” Walton Goggins Has Revealed That One Of His Costars Didn’t “Understand” His “Process”

“I don’t feel like I did that show,” the star added of Sons. “Because it took four and a half hours to get made up; I’d come in very early in the morning, and no one — out of respect to me and deference to Venus — no one ever saw that transition except the people who were working on it.”

“Charlie [Hunnam], and Kim [Coates], and all the boys on the show only ever met me as Venus Van Dam,” Walton explained. “We had been friends for years before that, but they never talked to me as Walton. They only referred to me as Venus, and they treated me as the lady that I was.”

And Sons’ creator Kurt Sutter referenced Walton’s dedication to Venus during an episode of his and his wife Katey Sagal’s podcast, PIE with Kurt Sutter and Katey Sagal last year, where he said that while he’d cast a transgender actor to play the role today, Walton approached Venus in a “truly authentic” way that wasn’t “demeaning” to transgender women.

“At all times, Walton was a goddess, you know? He was very, very concerned with respecting that community, and portraying it in a way that was not demeaning, that was not making fun of [it],” Kurt shared. “Everything he did was truly authentic, which allowed me to write [Venus] like this beautiful, gentle, vulnerable Southern Belle.”