{"id":192070,"date":"2025-09-30T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192070\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:49:09","slug":"walton-goggins-issues-heartfelt-response-to-pete-davidsons-warning-that-fans-will-turn-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192070\/","title":{"rendered":"Walton Goggins issues heartfelt response to Pete Davidson\u2019s warning that fans will \u2018turn\u2019 on him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walton Goggins <\/a>has thanked Pete Davidson<\/a> for the \u201cheads up\u201d about how fans might turn on him, much like they did with the former Saturday Night Live star.<\/a><\/p>\n

Davidson, 31, appeared last week on Theo Von\u2019s podcast,<\/a> This Past Weekend, and reflected on how his rapid rise to fame on SNL overshadowed the hard work he was putting in. He then suggested the same thing was happening to Pedro Pascal, who is currently starring in several movies, and that Goggins would be next.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, we build everybody up and now it\u2019s so fast to turn. It\u2019s within months,\u201d Davidson said. His comments swiftly made headlines. <\/p>\n

\u201cI saw this article and had to respond. (Pete was talking about his own experience),\u201d Goggins, 53, wrote on Instagram, alongside a screenshot of The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s article headlined, \u201cPete Davidson Predicts Fans Will \u2018Turn\u2019 on Walton Goggins Similar to Pedro Pascal Oversaturation Backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPete we don\u2019t know each other but I appreciate the heads up. We agree on one thing\u2026 Pedro Pascal isn\u2019t a good man, He\u2019s a great man. A dear friend of mine,\u201d he continued. \u201cAs a 53 yr old I\u2019m acutely aware that every experience has a shelf life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WaltonWalton Goggins (left) thanked Pete Davidson (right) for ‘heads up’ about fans likely turning on him (Getty)<\/p>\n

Turning his attention to fans, he said: \u201cI appreciate so many of you going on this journey with me. I imagine a lot of you (and I don\u2019t blame you) are tired of hearing my homilies. Trust me I\u2019m tired of saying them. I have a few things coming out that I have an obligation to talk about\u2026 not for me mind you, but to honor all of those that worked so hard to bring these stories to fruition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you see something with my name on it I encourage you not to click on it\u2026 unless you want to\u2026 and if you do\u2026I appreciate the support. See to me, being included in this headline isn\u2019t a curse it\u2019s a blessing. How lucky am I that this is even a possibility?!! I\u2019ve had the good fortune of engaging in so many interesting conversations with so many of you\u2026.of collaborating with so many top-shelf people across so many disciplines over the last couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded: \u201cWay more than a poor kid from GA would ever have the audacity to imagine. I wouldn\u2019t take one back. So\u2026If saying yes in life more than saying no is a crime, then I\u2019m guilty as charged. And If this headline is a possibility or an inevitability\u2026 if this is my fate\u2026Well\u2026 F*** it. I\u2019m going to enjoy the F*** OUT OF IT.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Davidson\u2019s comments about Pascal come amid fan complaints<\/a> that the Last of Us star is \u201ceverywhere.\u201d This year alone, he\u2019s appeared in three movies: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Materialists, and Eddington. He\u2019s also become the face of Apple\u2019s AirPod 4 commercial. <\/p>\n

\u201cLook at Pedro Pascal right now. F***ing two years ago he\u2019s a hardworking, great actor \u2026 He\u2019s worked so hard and has been a struggling actor, [then] f***ing blows up so f***ing hard, everyone\u2019s like, \u2018Daddy, daddy! Yeah, daddy, daddy,\u2019\u201d the comedian noted. \u201cAnd then a year later, he\u2019s, like, in everything now \u2019cause he\u2019s hot and big and everyone\u2019s like, \u2018Go the f*** away, dude.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidson argued that \u201cyou got to give someone time to adjust to that new level of fame. He\u2019s been banging at it for 30 years, and now he\u2019s learning how to go get a cup of coffee or deal with someone that taps you on the shoulder while you have your earbuds in and freaks you out. You got to give that guy a f***ing second to, like, adjust.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re gonna do it with Walton Goggins, [he] will be next,\u201d he predicted. <\/p>\n

Since Goggins\u2019s breakout performance on season three of The White Lotus, he has continued to ride the success, working with numerous brands, such as Walmart and website builder GoDaddy, on various campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-192070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}