Conan O’Brien offered to play ‘a male gigolo’ on ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3: ‘I could do that’
nypost.com“The White Lotus” creator Mike White and offered to play a sex worker on the Emmy winning HBO series. The comedian and former talk show host, 61, recalled his hilarious pitch during a recent episode of his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast.“Before you guys started shooting ‘The White Lotus,’ ran into none other than Mike White in a restaurant,” O’Brien told his guest, Walton Goggins, who will star in “The White Lotus” Season 3.O’Brien continued, “We start chatting because we’ve met each other once or twice before and he’s a very funny, cool guy.
I said, ‘Hey, so the next season of ‘The White Lotus,’ you’re going down to Thailand, right?’ I said, ‘If there’s a part for me, I’m available.’”O’Brien recalled that White pointed out how the country has a lot of sex workers. “And I said, ‘I could do that.’ … I could play a part where I’m a male gigolo or something.”Goggins laughed after hearing the anecdote, and said, “Yes, you could do that.
I believe that you could do that.”O’Brien asked the “Fallout” star, “Do you think I could play that part or do you think I actually could be a gigolo?” Goggins replied, “Well, I think you could do both.
I think you could play that part and you could be that person in real life.”Each season of the HBO dark comedy series follows a group of various unhappy wealthy vacationers staying at a branch of the fictional “The White Lotus” resort.
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